Usuki

Usuki is a small, coastal city on the east bank of Kyushu in southern Oita Prefecture with a populace of around 40,000 occupants. Usuki is a previous manor town and most acclaimed for its accumulation of stone Buddha carvings, just about 60 of which are named National Treasures, however there are a lot of different things to see and do and an entire day or more could without much of a stretch be spent in the region.

Usuki has an a full scope of celebrations consistently, significant ones being the Cherry Blossom Festival toward the beginning of April in the Castle Park, the Gion Festival with processions and mammoth buoys in mid-July, the Fire Festival with 1,000 consuming lights at the Usuki Stone Buddhas toward the finish of August, and the Takeyoi Festival with 20,000 bamboo lamps on the main end of the week in November. Amid November 200 maple trees in the grounds of Fugenji Temple are lit up.