Miyazaki
Travel plans
The Hyuga Coast: Sea Cliffs, a Wish-Granting Cross & Chicken Nanban's Home — 2 Days
The columnar sea cliffs and glass deck of Cape Hyuga at Umagase, the wish-granting Cross Sea, and the mountain shrine and great waterfall of Mukabaki on day one; the birthplace of chicken nanban, an old railway station turned onsen inn and the southernmost ski highland in Japan on day two — two days on Miyazaki's quiet northern coast and rivers, based in Nobeoka
Aya & Ebino: A Canopy Bridge, an Evergreen Forest & Volcanic Lakes — 2 Days
The long canopy suspension bridge over Aya's virgin evergreen forest, a wooden castle keep, a shochu-and-sake brewery tasting and a flower plateau on day one; a roadside waterfall, the volcanic plateau of Ebino, the crater lake of Fudoike and the climb of Mt Karakuni on day two — two active days in Miyazaki's western highlands, based in Aya
Miyazaki City & Saito: Shrines, Saga-Beef Country & a Field of Tombs — 2 Days
The great shrine of Miyazaki, the haniwa figures of Heiwadai Park, a chicken-nanban lunch, a science centre planetarium and a dinner of charcoal jidori on day one; the largest field of ancient burial mounds in Japan and a plate of championship Miyazaki beef on day two — two food-and-history days based in the sun-country capital
Takachiho: The Mythic Gorge, the Cave of the Sun & Night Kagura — 2 Days
The column-walled gorge and Manai Falls you row a boat into, a lunch of flowing somen, the great cedar shrine and its nightly kagura on day one; the sea-of-clouds dawn from Kunimigaoka, the cave-shrine of Amano Iwato, the offering-strewn cavern of Yasugawara and a ride on the old railway on day two — two days in the mythic mountains of Takachiho
The Nichinan Coast: Aoshima, the Cliff-Cave Shrine & Wild Horses — 2 Days
The subtropical shrine-island of Aoshima and the wave-cut Devil's Washboard, the Phoenix palm road, the moai of Sun Messe and the cliff-cave shrine of Udo on day one; the samurai castle town of Obi and the wild horses of Cape Toi on day two — two days down Miyazaki's mythic Nichinan coast, based on the Aoshima shore
Miyazaki travel guides
Aya & Ebino: A Canopy Bridge, Forest & Volcanic Lakes (2026)
The Hyuga Coast: Sea Cliffs, the Cross Sea & Nobeoka (2026)
Miyazaki City & Saito: Food, Shrines & a Field of Tombs (2026)
The Nichinan Coast: Aoshima, Udo Shrine & Wild Horses (2026)