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A Traveler’s Guide to the Unique Natural Beauty of Oita Prefecture
Original source: blog.gaijinpot.com
Oita Prefecture, located on the eastern brim of Kyushu Island, is the perfect place to do this. Take a 1 ½-hour flight from Tokyo and you’ll find yourself surrounded by sweeping landscapes oozing with pastoral beauty: think rice fields, green and golden in the sunlight, running endlessly into the horizon and lined with watercolor-blue mountains.