Hiji

Worth seeing in and around Hiji

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

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   Hiji Castle

   Hiji Castle, also known as Yōkoku Castle, Aoyagi Castle, and Ukitsu Castle, was a castle located in Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. The construction of the castle began in 1601, under Kinoshita Nobutoshi's orders, when he was transferred to Hiji from Himeji.

   500 m · Japanese castle in Hiji, Oita prefecture · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hiji

Airports

Kitakyushu (KKJ), 70 km · Kumamoto (KMJ), 86 km · Fukuoka (FUK), 103 km

Stations

Bungo-Toyooka Station, 2.9 km · Hiji Station, 1.1 km · Yōkoku Station, 100 m

• Kitakyushu → Hiji

  83 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · ¥1,120–1,530
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• Kumamoto → Hiji

  100 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · ¥1,450–1,980
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• Fukuoka → Hiji

  106 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · ¥1,500–2,040
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hiji

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hiji. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Hiji – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.