Beppu & Yufuin · Sights

Best Shrine in Beppu & Yufuin

4 places, each checked by our team.

• Hachiman Asami Shrine 八幡朝見神社Asami — Beppu's guardian shrine, approached by a grand stone stairway and a huge torii at the foot of the hills, with a spring-fed purification basin and a…
• Unagihime Shrine 宇奈岐日女神社Yufuin (Kawaminami) — Yufuin's ancient guardian shrine, a hushed cedar grove at the edge of the rice fields that most tourists on Yunotsubo street never find.
• Usa Jingu 宇佐神宮Usa — Head shrine of Japan's tens of thousands of Hachiman shrines, with vermilion halls on a wooded hill near the Kunisaki Peninsula.
• Yusuhara Hachimangu 柞原八幡宮Oita City (Yusuhara) — Ancient forested shrine in the hills above Oita city, ranked as Bungo's ichinomiya, with lacquered Edo-period halls and a giant camphor tree said to…