Sights in Uto, Kumamoto

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• Okoshiki Coast

  

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  Chosen for Japan's 100 Shores and 100 Sunsets. Ariake tides reveal sand curves; January to April sunset flats draw photographers.

• Todoroki Spring

  

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  One of Higo's three famous springs and Japan's 100 Famous Waters. Japan's oldest water supply, still used by 120 homes.

• Uto Castle Ruins (Konishi Shiro)

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• Todoroki Spring Museum

  

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  Exhibits on Todoroki waterworks, Bamon stone pipes, and Todoroki paper. White-walled storehouse with a garden tea room.

• Uto City Great Drum Museum

  

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  White-walled storehouse of rain-prayer drums and gongs. Displays 26 Edo-period great drums hollowed from zelkova with 33 rim ornaments.

• Awashima Shrine

  

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  Medicine and healing shrine built in 1633, widely visited. Japan's smallest torii was donated in 1814 after a miraculous cure.

• Nagabeta Kaishoro

  

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  Road into the Ariake Sea appearing at low tide, with only utility poles visible at high tide.

• Tawarejima

  

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  An island in Heian texts, little eroded, famed for large sunsets and nicknamed Uto's Mont Saint-Michel.

• Jinbe Statue

  

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  Helmsman Jinbe statue in Uto's Sumiyoshi Coast Park, watching citizens and steering further recovery.