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Futago-ji Temple
A temple people come back to · Kunisaki, Japan
Photo: Bruno Rijsman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.3★Rating
103Reviews
$Price level
Nov & May–JunBest time
The experience
A Tendai temple founded in 718 on Mount Futago — mossy stone steps guarded by the peninsula's largest Nio statue, through forest listed among Japan's best forest-bathing sites.
The Kunisaki Peninsula has no train line, so even Beppu visitors next door rarely detour here.
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It's only worth the detour Nov & May–Jun. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
What a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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