waterfall
Nabegataki Falls
A broad, low curtain of water falling from an overhanging ledge, allowing visitors to walk along a path behind the entire span of the fall. A short descent from the car park in northern Kumamoto.
4 km · about 5 min drive
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Miyahara
Kumamoto, Japan · Asia
About Miyahara
Miyahara works well as a base: 30 minutes from Hikiji, 27km from Mount Aso Caldera.
Miyahara is in Kumamoto, Japan, with about 6,600 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Hikiji, about 16 km away.
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What is there to see near Miyahara?
Within an hour or so of Miyahara: Nabegataki Falls (4 km), Tsuetate Onsen (7 km), Kurokawa Onsen (8 km), Autopolis (13 km).
Where is Miyahara?
Miyahara is in Kumamoto, Japan, about 16 km from Hikiji.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,590
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Kumamoto
- Timezone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Coordinates
- 33.1227, 131.0701
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Japan
Japan Helpline (24h English assistance): 0570-000-911. An International Driving Permit (1949 convention) is required to drive.
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Worth the detour from Miyahara
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Tsuetate Onsen
A narrow ravine village straddling the Kumamoto–Oita border where steam vents rise between old wooden inns and footbridges. In spring hundreds of carp streamers are strung across the gorge.
7 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
Kurokawa Onsen
A hot-spring village in the Aso highlands that banned neon and concrete facades, so wooden inns and stone-walled riverside baths dominate. A single wooden pass grants entry to three open-air baths of your choice.
8 km · about 15 min drive
racetrack
Autopolis
A hillside circuit on the island of Kyushu in Japan, known for dramatic elevation changes and hosting Super GT and Super Formula.
13 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Mount Aso Caldera
One of the world's largest volcanic calderas in Kyushu with an active smoking crater and vast green grasslands.
27 km · about 30 min drive
photogenic
Kamishikimi Kumanoimasu Shrine
A moss-covered stone stairway of roughly 100 steps climbing through cedar forest to a shrine below a rock face pierced by a huge natural window. Reached by a short walk from a small car park in the Aso caldera.
31 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Beppu Hells (Jigoku Meguri)
A collection of spectacular hot spring vents in Beppu producing steaming pools of vivid blue, red, and milky-white water.
43 km · about 50 min drive
tunnel
Aonodōmon
A tunnel hand-cut through a cliff on the Yamakuni River, begun by the monk Zenkai in 1735 and reputedly dug over three decades to spare travellers a lethal chain path. Sections of the original chiselled bore survive alongside the road.
43 km · about 50 min drive
Driving roads near Miyahara
- 43 kmAonodōmonA tunnel hand-cut through a cliff on the Yamakuni River, begun by the monk Zenkai in 1735 and reputedly dug over three decades to spare travellers a lethal chain path. Sections of the original chiselled bore survive alongside the road.
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