Hyuga Onsen Miyazaki

Hyuga Onsen Miyazaki is a thermal bathing facility in Hyuga City on the Pacific coast of northern Miyazaki Prefecture, a city whose beautiful and dramatic coastline of rugged sea cliffs, natural rock arches, and white sand beaches has inspired an unusual local mythology of Japanese origins, with some traditions identifying Hyuga as one of the possible locations of the mythological Takamagahara or heavenly plain of Shinto creation narratives, and the Takachiho Gorge just inland serving as the legendary hiding place of the sun goddess Amaterasu during the cosmic darkness episode of Japanese mythology. Hyuga City's Toi Cape and the Kasanohana Coast preserve dramatic clifftop scenery where the Pacific Ocean meets the edge of the Miyazaki coastal plain in a landscape of geological drama and subtropical vegetation, and the city's tuna and bonito fishing culture connects it to the deep Pacific Ocean food traditions of Kyushu's eastern seaboard. The chloride mineral spring waters here warm visitors to a city whose mythological connections, dramatic Pacific coastline, and fishing heritage create a distinctive character as one of the gateways to the spiritually charged Takachiho highland of northern Miyazaki, where Japan's oldest surviving Shinto myths find their earthly landscape.