The city demands for the speed of lives, which causes to the over pressures, no matter for the family, learning or working, mental health becomes important to us. Take not enough rest and get sick easily. Travelling is good choice for releasing the pressure.  There is a curable place in Japanese, which are fond by lots of tourists, Kikuchi.  Located in Kumamoto, gained the fame of the "Spring Water of the Village" by the reason of beautiful natural scenery and farming products.

1.  Magnificent Waterfall

Welcomed waterfull, for instance, the Dawn Waterfall, the Tengu Water and so on, which are comes from the Mount Aso.  we can feel the power by listening to the sound of raging water or watching the pure green blue spring water.  Then, we can wipe out all the annoyed matter from our mind.

Bright sunshine to the spring water produces a three-dimensional landscape drawing!

Waterfall is favored by all of us indeed.  But the hot-spring is another attractive point for us to enjoy since the temperature can be kept around 40 °C, eliminating our fatigue and perfect our skin.  Let’s try it!

Tips for you: Tired by the long-distance walking, then come near the Art Museum.  There is a free “Ashiyu” for you to eliminate the fatigue.  If you have more time, you can also visit the Art Museum too~

2.   Huge amount of dairy products

Developed-well animal husbandry in Kikuchi, results in rich milk products, for instance, the Aso milk, cheese.  The lovely green grasses are made by the non-contaminated pure water and unpolluted air.  That’s the reason why attracting so many travelers to buy the beef and milk products.

The pure milky white milk perfect our skin and make them look better~

Except for the milk, other milk products are also admired by lots of locals.  The “TWINSTAR” is different from the normal ice-cream. 

To take the milk from their own farm and make the ice-cream, the tastes are so silky and sweet.  The owner can guarantee the quantity of the ice-cream and that’s the reason why it won lots of award.  Another point is the appearance since the ice-cream looks like plastic arts. 

This snowflake fresh beef can be cooked in many ways, no matter for the Sabusabu or barbeque, it would taste very nice~

Japanese rice is fond by numerous travelers, especially in Kikuchi.  Rich pure water and fresh air plants the wonderful crops.  You can buy some for the souvenirs too~

3.  Pass the flame of wagashi onto the next generation

Although you have eaten the wagashi before, not made them by yourself.  The well-known traditional old wagashi shop, “中原松月堂”, offers the masters to teach hot to make the wagashi and the Japanese tea ceremony well and the  You can make your delicious wagashi matching with the bowl of the nice green tea.  Through the teaching, we can understand the history, culture and making ways of wagashi.  You must never try this before!

When it comes to the hot summer, what is the ideal wagashi for you to design?