Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the middle of the Fukuoka and Kumamoto metropolitan areas, and has good transportation access such as railways and expressways, making it a city with good Access to urban areas. In addition, although it is a compact city area, the Nature environment such as the sea and mountains coexist with urban functions, and you can Fun a variety of attractions.
One of the most popular sightseeing spots in Arao City is Greenland, one of the largest amusement parks in western Japan. Visit the number of attractions in No.1 in Japan, there are plenty of thrilling machines and family-friendly attractions, and many tourists visit throughout the year.
For history buffs, Manda Pit is part of the World Cultural Heritage Site "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution". It is a coal mining ruins that flourished in the Meiji era, and has high value as an industrial heritage, and you can learn about the history of coal mining at that time.
Among gourmet foods, Kumamoto's Specialties Basashi and Arao City's Specialty Products "Arao Pears" with a history of more than 100 years are popular. Arao Pears, in particular, are characterized by their sweet and juicy taste, and many people Visit to buy them during the season.
For those who want to enjoy nature, we recommend climbing and hiking at Mount Kodai in Arao City. You can refresh yourself while enjoying the scenery of the four seasons.
With good Access from Fukuoka and Kumamoto City, Arao City is ideal for day trips.
Enjoy sightseeing, historical exploration, and gourmet food in Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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7 selections of Arao's stamina Gourmet ~ Part 5 ~
Introducing delicious stamina Gourmet food in Arao City.
Popular addictive flavors, gutsy rice, and more!
If you eat it, there is no doubt that you will be energized with the intense umami menu that is full of power!
5. Bacon & Egg Cheeseburger (King Size) ~Hero's Diner~
The King-size Hamburger is surprisingly large when you hold it in your hand. The 100% beef patty is coarsely ground and satisfying, and the rich cheddar cheese is also perfect!
It is a full-fledged Hamburger with plenty of volume and a very satisfying stomach and heart.
* Regular size is also available.
Hero's Diner Store Points!
Authentic and delicious American Hamburger and Steak. Juicy, voluminous, and satisfying Hamburger Specialties. The pop and American interior is an irresistible space for American comic book lovers.
◆ Store name: Hero's Diner
◆Address: 573-3 Miyauchi, Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture (Favorite Yaki Minamoto 2F)
◆Phone: 0968-85-8484
◆Business hours: 11:30~15:00 (L.O. 14:30) 17:30~22:00 (L.O.21:00)
◆Store holiday: Water and Sunday
◆ Number of seats: 24 seats
◆ Private room: None
◆ Smoking seats: None
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Arao's Stamina Gourmet 7 ~ Part 4 ~
Introducing delicious stamina Gourmet food in Arao City.
Popular addictive flavors, gutsy rice, and more!
If you eat it, there is no doubt that you will be energized with the intense umami menu that is full of power!
4. Momoju Bento ~Bone-in Bird and Karaage Specialty Store Toraichi Main Store~
Arao main store limited to Momo heavy bento. Volume lunch box with one whole carefully selected thigh meat slowly and carefully grilled in olive oil. Other, there are also single karaage dishes and various bento menus.
Bone-in bird and karaage specialty store Toraichi main store store points!
A restaurant that originates in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture, and serves freshly fried chicken with a commitment manufacturing method. For bone-in birds, tender and juicy chicks are prepared. Please enjoy the proud fried chicken made Commitment by the owner who loves fried chicken. There is also an Omuta store and a Tamana store.
◆ Store name: Bone-in bird / karaage specialty store Toraichi main store
◆Address: 813-1 Haramanda, Arao-shi, Kumamoto
◆Phone: 0968-62-6268
◆Business hours: 10:30~19:30
◆Store holidays: Not opens
◆Number of seats: Take-out specialty store
◆HP:https://karaage-toraichi.com//
◆Social media: Facebook
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7 selections of Arao's stamina Gourmet ~ Part 3 ~
Introducing delicious stamina Gourmet food in Arao City.
Popular addictive flavors, gutsy rice, and more!
If you eat it, there is no doubt that you will be energized with the intense umami menu that is full of power!
3. All you can eat Extreme Course ~Yakiniku Nurbon Garden Arao~
It is a very satisfying course where you can enjoy Nurbon Garden's "solemn grilled meat" and "authentic Korean cuisine" that has been devoted to meat for more than 40 years. Commitment meats such as domestic loin and domestic short ribs, Korean dishes, and desserts are recommended for dinners and banquets with the whole family!
Yakiniku Nurbon Garden Arao Shop Points!
It is a yakiniku restaurant where you can enjoy a rich menu with All you can eat courses, including Japanese black beef from Kyushu and other commitment meats, as well as authentic Korean dishes such as cold noodles and bibimbap. There are also box seats and private rooms where you can relax in the large restaurant. Take-out yakiniku heavy and yakiniku bento boxes are also popular.
◆ Store name: Yakiniku Nurbon Garden Arao
◆Address: 1518-90 Motoite, Arao-shi, Kumamoto
◆Phone: 0968-65-5333
◆Business hours: Weekdays 16:00~22:00 (O.S. 21:30), Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 11:30~23:00 (O.S. 22:30)
◆ Store holidays: None
◆ Number of seats: 240 seats
◆ Private room: Yes
◆ Smoking seats: None
◆HP:https://www.nurubon.co.jp/tenpo/arao.html...
◆Social media: Facebook, Twitter
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7 Selections of Arao's Stamina Gourmet ~ Part 2 ~
Introducing delicious stamina Gourmet food in Arao City.
Popular addictive flavors, gutsy rice, and more!
If you eat it, there is no doubt that you will be energized with the intense umami menu that is full of power!
2. Kumamoto Basashi Assortment 5 Kinds ~Rakuna Dining Koudo~
It is an assortment of Kumamoto specialties Basashi where you can enjoy the different sweetness and texture of five parts: marbling, upper Basashi, lean meat, koune, and futaego. Please enjoy garlic soy sauce, ginger, spicy miso, etc. according to the part.
Rakusai Dining Kakudo Shop Point
Receiving only twice a month! The rare horse lever sashimi that is particular about raw is a little different from other stores! Other, it is an izakaya that boasts fresh fish selected by craftsmen every morning, "fire hon pork" from WaWater Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, and the highest quality binchotan charcoal skewers. Please have a "fun time talking with your loved ones".
* Receiving of horse leva sashimi will be announced on social media.
◆ Store name: Rakusai Dining Kakudo
◆Address: 1616-67 Shimoite, Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture Green Smile Ichiban Inside the Facility
◆Phone: 0968-66-0804
◆Business hours: 11:30~15:00, 17:00~23:00
◆ Store holiday: Thursday, New Year's Day
◆ Number of seats: 100 seats
◆ Private room: Yes
◆ Smoking seats: Smoking space set up outside the store
◆HP:https://www.kuraudo.site//
◆Social media: LINE, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
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7 selections of Arao's stamina Gourmet ~ Part 1 ~
Introducing delicious stamina Gourmet food in Arao City.
Popular addictive flavors, gutsy rice, and more!
If you eat it, there is no doubt that you will be energized with the intense umami menu that is full of power!
1. Assorted hormones ~Japanese-style yakiniku horsepower~
Hatsu, senmai, liver, red senmai, and tecchan, five parts with different tastes and textures. Each of them is rich in nutrients such as vitamins B and E, Mina Raru, iron, etc., and is ideal for replenishing stamina. Gari with soy sauce sauce with plenty of garlic!
Japanese-style yakiniku horsepower shop points!
A yakiniku restaurant where you can enjoy a large number of menus, including a great value lunch. Gari can enjoy rare parts by buying one head of A5 rank black Wagyu beef unique to a butcher's directly managed store. It is a restaurant that is I'm particular about freshness management so that we can provide safe, secure and delicious meat.
◆ Store name: Japanese-style yakiniku horsepower shop
◆Address: 1616-67 Shimoite, Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture Green Smile Ichiban Inside the Facility
◆Phone: 0968-66-4129
◆Business hours: 11:30~15:00, 17:00~22:30
◆Store holidays: Water (subject to change if it is a holiday), New Year's Day
◆ Number of seats: 100 seats
◆ Private room: Yes
◆ Smoking seats: None
◆HP:http://www.barikiya.com//
◆Social media: Facebook/Instagram
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Tokiwa witch hazel, a flower that grows wild in only three places in Japan
We will introduce "Tokiwa Mansaku" from Mount Kodai, which is popular as a mountain where beginners can enjoy mountain walking with abundant mountain climbing routes.
Tokiwa is an evergreen tree that bears leaves all year round.
It is said that Mansaku represents the wish for a full harvest in the Harvest Festival.
Where can you meet the flowers of Tokiwa witch hazel that grow wild in Japan?
Mount Kodai, Arao City, Kumamoto
Ise Jingu, Mie Prefecture
Shinza, Kosai City, Shizuoka
It is said that there are three places.
Best time to visit is from mid-April to late April every year.
【Spot Information】
Mount Kodai
Mount Kodai Car parking lot, toilet available
Kumamoto Prefecture Arao City Kaba 2773-595
0968-63-1421 (Arao City Tourism and Cultural Exchange Division)
#Mt. Mount Kodai #Arao Genic #Tokiwa Witch Hazel #Kyushu Mountains #Kyushu Nature Trail #Low Mountain Hike #Climbing #Mount Kodai Trail Running #Arao City #Kumamoto
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You can enjoy it even on a rainy day! Spot in Arao City, Kumamoto
【Arao City Library】
Location: 〒864-0033
Kumamoto Prefecture Arao City Midorigaoka 1-chōme-1-1
Business hours: 10:00-20:00
Closed : End of every month (except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays)
Admission fee : Free
Phone : 0968-57-7747
The Inside the Facility, which was built with the image of a "library on tidal flats", There are various Zone. There is a room where children can take off their shoes and enjoy Picture books slowly, and there is a children's Toilet (with a nursing room), so even small children can use it with peace of mind.
【Manda Pit Station】
Location: 864-0001
Kumamoto Prefecture Arao City Hara Manda 200-2
Business hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed : Monday (or the following weekdays if it is a holiday)
Admission fee : Free (Manda Pit site is charged)
Phone : 0968-57-9155
It is an indoor exhibition facilities in front of the Manda Pit.
In addition to dioramas and explanation boards, there is also a "VR" that can be viewed for free. You can enjoy the feeling of going underground with 360-degree realistic Video and sound. It is a facility that can be enjoyed regardless of the weather and learn about the history of Manda Pit.
【Marugoto Orao Products Museum】
Location: 864-0001
Kumamoto Prefecture Arao City Hara Manda 169-22
Business hours: 11:00-16:30
Closed : Monday (or the following weekdays if it is a holiday)
Admission fee : Free
Phone : 0968-57-9960
It is a Products Museum equipped with "Souvenirs" such as Specialty products and Sake of Arao City, "Koshiroyaki" which is a craft of Arao, and a "Tourist Information Corner" that introduces Gourmet food in Arao City and nearby sightseeing spots. When the weather is nice, it feels good to take a break on the bench at the "Rooftop Observatory"!
[Arao Kids Dome]
Location: 〒864-0041
4186-19 Arao, Arao-shi, Kumamoto
(Arao Cultural Center)
Business hours: 2 hours at a time
Session 1: 9:00-11:00
Session 2 12:30-14:30
Session 3 15:00-17:00
Closed : Tuesday (the next day if it is a holiday)
Admission: Junior high school students and older: 700 yen
3 years old and under junior high school students: 300 yen
Children under 2 years old free of charge
* Group discount for 20 people or more is available.
Phone : 0968-66-4111
Indoor experience-based digital art by teamLab, which is Popular in Japan and abroad. Coloring is easy even for small children, and your own picture will be on the wall! Floor! Move around. Although there is a time limit, it is a fun space where you can get absorbed and play.
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As one of the projects commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kumamoto Prefectural Theater, five videos were produced on the theme of "Moving Theater".
One of them, the collaboration video of "Manda Pit" × "DANCE", was Open to the public on YouTube.
The performance, set in the historic Manda Pit, was starred, choreographed, and written by professional dancer Yusuke Hayama. Original music for this project was produced and directed by art director Kei Yoshida, and Video production was done by OP Films by Onigashima Productions.
As the phrase "Dance is Timeless" suggests, you can enjoy a video work that expresses the history of Manda Pit through dance through the ages.
https://arao-kankou.jp/info/11207/...
Other video with the theme of "theater in motion" are Open to the public. Please take a look.
・ Double bass × Sakizu village
・Yashiro Myomi Festival ×Tsugaru Shamisen, Japanese Drum
・Aso × String Quartet
・Marching × Triangle West Port
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The popular game [Fortnite] finally has Kumamon Island! There is also Manda Pit as a tourist facility!
In that Popular online game [Fortnite], the "Kumamon Island" stage set in Kumamoto has finally appeared! !!
The "Kumamon Island" stage is not the usual shooting game, but a management simulation game!
The story of the game revolves around Kumamoto Castle and other major Sightseeing spots in the prefecture, and the player cooperates with Kumamon's plan to create a "Giant Kumamon Robo"!
Manda Pit has also appeared as one of the sightseeing spots! !!
Please ♪ enjoy the game with the cute Kumamon
Island code: 0507-8727-1071
https://www.pref.kumamoto.jp/kumamonisland/...
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Cycling while looking at the Ariake Sea! edit
Would you like to take a leisurely trip around the city?
In addition to the places you visit for the first time, new discoveries in familiar scenery will further enrich your daily life.
While feeling the sea breeze of the Ariake Sea, you can see the Arao tidal flats in Kumamoto Prefecture, Mt. Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture, Mt. Tara in Saga Prefecture, and the giant crane built at the shipyard in Nagasu Town, and visit the Neko Daimyojin (Nekomiya), a seaside bakery full of smiles, an Adult hideaway café where you can forget the time and talk, a Soba café, or walk to Yotsuyama Shrine to see the Ariake Sea from a high ground.
【Bicycle rental facilities】
◆Arao Tidal Flats Water and Wetland Center: 20-2 Kuraman, Arao City
*Closed is Monday, year-end and New Year holidays (12/29~1/3), and if Monday is Holidays, the next opening day
0968-57-7444
ramsar@city.arao.lg.jp
https://www.city.arao.lg.jp/kurashi/shisetsu/higata/...
◆Goldfish and Koi Township Square: 3150 Nagasu, Nagasu-cho, Tamana-gun
*Year-end and New Year holidays (12/28~1/3)
【Use time for bicycle rental】
3 hours
【Rental time】
9 a.m. ~ 4 p.m. (Reception until 3 p.m.) *Excluding Closed of handling facilities
【Subject of Use】
High school students and above
Use rental bicycles without any safety obstacles
【Use Procedure】
You will be asked to present a document that can confirm your name and Address, such as a driver's license, health insurance, or student ID, and fill out the Use application form.
[Return location]
It will be the facilities who has completed the loan procedure.
[In stormy weather]
Lending may be discontinued.
[About transfer and subleasing]
Rental bicycles cannot be transferred or subleased to other parties.
[About helmets]
Use bicycle rental is required to wear a helmet.
Loans are also available.
#Bicycle rental #Ariake Sea #Arao Tidal Flats Water Wetland Center #Goldfish and Koi no Township Square #Cycling
https://www.city.arao.lg.j...
p/kurashi/shisetsu/higata/
https://www.city.arao.lg.jp/kurashi/shisetsu/higata/...
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