Kusamakura Hiking Course attracts visitors from both inside and outside Kumamoto. The path remains much as it looked in Natsume’s time (setting for Natsume Soseki’s novel “Kusamakura”), surrounded in a lush bamboo forest and paved in well-worn stones.

Access: 25 minutes by car from JR Kumamoto Station or
8 minute-walk from Yoshino bus stop

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