Ōita Prefectural Museum Of History

picture info	Ōita Prefectural Museum Of History The opened in Usa, Ōita Prefecture, Japan in 1998, replacing the of 1981. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. The collection is organised around themes including life and ancient Buddhism in Toyo no kuni and the Kunisaki peninsula, and the culture of Usa Hachiman-gū and Fuki-ji. See also * Usa Hachiman-gū * Fuki-ji * Prefectural museum A prefectural museum is a museum that specializes in collections local to a prefecture of Japan. Prefectural museums emerged in postwar Japan, and since these institutions are of recent origin their collections tend not to contain older Japan ar ... References External links * Ōita Prefectural Museum of History Museums in Ōita Prefecture History museums in Japan Prefectural museums Museums established in 1998 1998 establishments in Japan {{Japan-museum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oita Prefectural Museum Of History In Usa City, Oita Prefecture Oita often refers to: Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan Ōita (city), the capital of the prefecture Oita or Ōita may also refer to: Places Ōita District, Ōita, a former district in Ōita Prefecture, Japan Ōita Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan * Oița River, a tributary of the Bistriţa River in Romania Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita, a diocese in the city of Ōita in the Ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki, Japan Mount Oeta (also "Oita" or "Oiti"), a mountain in Central Greece Education Oita Junior College, a private junior college in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture, a private junior college in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan Oita University, a national university in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences, a public university in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, Japan Transportation Oita Airport, an airport in Kunisaki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan Ōita Station, a J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Usa, Ōita is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Japan at the tip of Kunisaki Peninsula in northern Kyushu. Notable for the Usa Jingū, the head shrine of all 40,000 Hachiman shrines across Japan, the city annually attracts as many as 1.8 million worshipers from all over the country on New Year's Day. There are other tourist attractions in the city, such as the temple of Hongan-ji Betsuin, making it one of the prefecture's leading tourist cities. As of March 2017, the city has an estimated population of 55,534 and a population density of 130 persons per km². The total area is 439.12 km². History The town of Usa became a city on April 1, 1967. On March 31, 2005, the towns of Ajimu and Innai (both from Usa District) were merged into Usa. Geography Usa is located at the tip of the Kunisaki Peninsula in northern Kyushu. Usa is made up of three areas. Usa, the area surrounding the Usa Jingū (also known as the Usa Shrine) Yokkaichi, the area surrounding the Hongan-ji temple, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,136,245 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, Kumamoto Prefecture to the southwest, and Miyazaki Prefecture to the south. Ōita is capital and largest city of Ōita Prefecture, with other major cities including Beppu, Nakatsu, and Saiki. Ōita Prefecture is located in the northeast of Kyūshū on the Bungo Channel, connecting the Pacific Ocean and Seto Inland Sea, across from Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. Ōita Prefecture is famous for its hot springs and is a popular tourist destination in Japan for its '' onsens'' and '' ryokans'', particularly in and around the city of Beppu. History Around the 6th century Kyushu consisted of four regions: Tsukushi Province, Hi Province, Kumaso Province and Toyo Province. Toyo Province was later divided into two regions, upper and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]