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  Oita: Event Participants Echo Buddha-Like Hairstyle

  USUKI, Oita — Some 100 people took part in a quirky tourism event in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Oct....

  November 4, 2023

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  Monkeys Given Pool in Oita

  Monkeys swim comfortably in a pool at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita. The garden...

  July 17, 2023

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  Oita: Popular Horse-Drawn Carriage Tours Restart

  YUFU, Oita — Tsuji horse-drawn carriage tours, a popular attraction in the Yufuin hot spring area of...

  March 18, 2023

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  Oita: Contestants Shiver and Shake in Cold-Endurance Event on Mountain

  BEPPU, Oita — Over 40 men and women braved the elements to take part in a cold-endurance contest in ...

  February 4, 2023

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  Oita: Beppu Tower gets spruced up

  BEPPU, Oita — Beppu Tower, a piece of architecture that represents Oita Prefecture’s hot spring reso...

  January 7, 2023

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  Oita: Long bench promotes local delicacy

  NAKATSU, Oita — A 10-meter-long bench called “Japan’s longest chair for pike conger” stands on the p...

  December 12, 2022

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  Oita: Island using rental truck equipped with work space to woo visitors

  HIMESHIMA, Oita — A small, remote island in the Seto Inland Sea is advocating a new work style in wh...

  September 25, 2022

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  Unique hot spring touted as lure for health tourism

  TAKETA, Oita — As Oita Prefecture touts itself as the top destination in Japan for onsen hot springs...

  May 21, 2022

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  Oita: Resorts hope ‘aliens’ will launch invasion of tourists

  OITA — Japan’s largest hot spring resort prefecture has launched an unusual tourism strategy that pr...

  January 8, 2022

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  Oita: City lacking hot spring uses sauna at hot draw

  BUNGO-ONO, Oita — Even in the so-called “Onsen Prefecture” rich with hot spring resorts like Yufuin ...

  September 20, 2021

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  Oita: Small town launches promotion ‘attack’ to boost ‘titanic’ home

  HITA, Oita — A museum celebrating the megahit manga series “Shingeki no Kyojin” (Attack on Titan) op...

  April 17, 2021

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  Oita: Farmers grow sugarcane on abandoned paddies to feed elephants at Oita zoo

  BEPPU, Oita — Sugarcane is being grown in abandoned rice fields to feed Asian elephants at a local z...

  April 3, 2021

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