5 reasons to love TAKACHIHO
The misty mountain town of Takachiho has no high-speed train connections or highways leading to it. Instead, it takes a winding drive to get here: one that helps acclimatise you to the scenery in store and makes this off-the-beaten track destination feel gloriously, ethereally removed from the world.
Located in northern Miyazaki – a mountainous, mango-growing prefecture on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu – Takachiho’s landscape is characterised by deep ravines, lava-carved gorges and waterfalls that plunge into emerald green rivers. In autumn, when the leaves turn a blaze of gold, red and auburn, it’s elevated to
