Kyushu region · the offbeat side of Miyazaki.
2 discoveries
Seven full-size Moai statues stand on a grassy hillside above the Pacific in southern Miyazaki — the only officially sanctioned replicas of Easter Island's figures anywhere in the world.
A narrow basalt canyon of columnar cliffs and a waterfall plunging straight into emerald water — row a small boat to its base, through a landscape woven into Japan's oldest creation myths.