One day in Kurume, Japan

A day through Kurume’s best-known sights that lie close together: Kurume Castle, Bairin-ji Temple, Nichirinji Kofun and Kurume Suitengū. 4 stops, about 1.5 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Kurume CastleCastle · On the map
  2. Bairin-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 1 km on from Kurume Castle · On the map
  3. Nichirinji KofunMonument · 0.3 km on from Bairin-ji Temple · On the map
  4. Kurume SuitengūTemple or shrine · 0.2 km on from Nichirinji Kofun · On the map

4 stops, 2.2 km on foot along the streets: about 26 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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