Oita City is located in central Oita Prefecture. The city is blessed with a warm climate and an abundance of fresh produce from both land and sea .The central area is a leader in art, food, and culture. If you leave the city itself, you will find places where you can have more contact with nature such as Mt. Takasaki, where Japanese monkeys make their habitat, an aquarium, and lot's more.
Seki-aji and Seki-saba (horse mackerel and mackerel) are brand fishes that Oita city boasts in Japan.
Seki-aji and Seki-saba, which are single-fished in the Bungo Strait, have unique taste and crunch.
Chicken tempura seasoned with garlic, ginger and soy sauce.
Local people eat this with vinegar soy sauce and mustard.
Fugu dishes are served at some Japanese-style restaurants in the city.
Fugu is a high-protein, low-fat food that also provides plenty of dietary collagen in its gelatin-rich skin.
Oita bungo beef has a proven track record and history.
It has fine-grained frost, and the balance between fat and lean is exquisite.
Dumpling soup is a local dish represented by Oita City.
It is miso soup prepared by simmering flat noodles, shiitake, beef bowl, taro and carrots.
Search Onsen is Here (Oita city is in the Beppu Bay Area)
JR Oita City was newly opened in 2015 and is composed of a shopping mall "Amu Plaza", JR Hotel Blossom Oita, and City Spa "Tenku". There're more than 180 shops in the mall which contain clothing stores, interior and micellaneous goods stores, restaurants, a cinema comlex and an amusument arcade. There's a rooftop garden on the 8th floor of the building where a mini train "Kuro chan bun-bun go" runs. There's also a shrine and a small path with some small shops there.
097-513-1220
1-14 Kaname-machi, Oita City
Oita Station building
Tokiwa is a local department store located on the main street called Chuo-dori, only a 5 minute walk from Oita Station. The store sells various products from fashion items to local food, including famous brands.
In the basement they have a variety of souvenirs from all over Oita Prefecture.
097-538-1111
2-1-4 Funai-machi,Oita City
5min from Oita Sta on foot
Park place is a big shopping complex in the eastern part of Oita City. The mall contains a supermarket, 3 floors of diverse shops ranging from clothing to electrical goods, a restaurant area, and a cinema complex.
097-520-7777
2-1 Koen-dori nishi, Oita City
About 30 min by bus from Oita Sta to Park Place bus stop
This shop manufactures and sells colorful bags and sundries that craftsmen have made with great effort.
Sashiko stitching goods that are rare even in Japan are perfect for the unique gift.
Ota Hatamise
Bamboo crafts and goods created in collaboration with "OPAM" (art museum)
Opam museum shop
"Takamon" is the mascot of the monkey mountain, Takasaki yama. The name was made by juxtaposition of both words "Takasaki" and "monkey".
Oita City Tourist Information Center
Goods sold at the gift shop in the Aquarium Umitamago, including sweets, towels and dolphin-shaped stuffed animals.
Aquarium Umitamago
Goods with the design of the "hot spring prefecture" Oita, which consists of a wooden basin and steam of hot springs.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, Oita prefectural office
Illustrated with local products and sightseeing spots within Oita, which represent things such as Kabosu lime, Tori-ten chicken tempura, and local fish Seki aji and Seki saba.
Post Office
Visitors can enjoy both sake and shochu in Oita.Yatsushika is a popular local sake brand. Nikaido and Iichiko are popular shochu brand. Kuramitsu Shuzou is the only sake brewery in Oita City.
Each liquor shop, supermarket and souvenir shop
This confection is Oita’s standard souvenir made for praising the accomplishments of Francisco Xavier, a Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic missionary, known as a great person associated with Oita. Silver Zabieru, which is made from white bean jam and wrapped with a buttery flavorful pie pastry, and Gold Zabieru, which contains chopped rum-dipped raisins, are sold together.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, TOKIWA, Souvenir shop Tabito
A long-established Japanese confectionery store, which was founded in 1906, offers cute monaka. These wafers are made in the motif of Seki-aji and Seki-saba as specialties of Saganoseki, Oita. Seki-aji monaka, which is smaller in size is filled with strained bean jam, and Seki-saba monaka contains coarse bean jam and belly thick rice cake.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, TOKIWA, Takahashi suigetsu-do
BOM DIA is a sweet confection made from walnut bean jam with a good texture wrapped in soft and moist pie pastry. This confection was made in commemoration of the fact that Aveiro City of Portugal and Oita became sister cities in 1978. It has been 40 years since it was sold for the first time and it remains an ever-popular confection.
Okashino‐Kikuya, TOKIWA
Kurome miso soup can be made simply by putting a monaka filled with dried kurome (a kind of seaweed) and the included miso into a bowl and pouring in hot water.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, TOKIWA, Souvenir shop Tabito
A fresh confection that uses kabosu(a citrus fruit). The bitter kabosu peels are soaked in kabosu syrup for a flavorful end result.
Supermarkets and souvenir shops
Oita Karaage’s crunchy chicken skin fries have a crispy teture and light salty taste that will have you addicted. The shop uses domestic rice oil in a unique manufacturing method to finish them. You will find it easy to nibble on these thinly cut pieces, and they are ideal for snacks or munchies to go with your drinks.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, TOKIWA, Souvenir shop Tabito
Burdock coffee is made from dried and roasted burdock roots. It is a tasty masterpiece with natural sweetness and is as fragrant as coffee roasted with charcoal. Its taste will double if a honey-boiled burdock stick is used in place of a muddler.
Bungo Niwasaki Ichiba, Fusyun-kan
2BF Oita Furusato-no-Aji, 2-1-4 Funai-Machi, Oita City
097-538-1111
2F Oita airport, 13 Shimobaru, Aki-machi, Kunisaki City
0978-67-1174
Time of year | Event | Place |
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In the middle of January | Suigyoe ※A purification ceremony that men do by pouring icecold water on themselves with a bucket |
Houshinji Temple |
Beginning of February | Beppu Oita Mainichi Marathon | Beppu City-Oita City |
In the middle of February | Yoshino Ume blossoms Festival | Yoshino Baien (Plum garden) Umenoki-Tenmansha Shrine |
Late in February | Sekiaji-Sekisaba Festival (horse mackerel and mackerel festival) | Saganoseki area |
Beginning of April | Ken Hachimangu Shrine spring Festival "Kenka matsuri" | Higashi Tsurusaki area Ken Hachimangu Shrine |
Late in April | Nosaka Shrine spring Festival | Misa area |
Beginning of May | Sasamuta Fuji (wisteria) Festival | Souda area Sasamuta Shrine |
Beginning of May | Hayasuihime Shrine Fuji (wisteria) Festival | Saganoseki area Hayasuihime Shrine |
In the middle of May | Manko-ji no Ichi | Sakanoichi area Manko-ji Temple |
Beginning of July | Nagahama Shrine summer Festival | Nagahama-machi |
Late in July | Nanase no Homura (Fire) Festival | Nanase river natural park |
Beginning of August | Oita Tanabata Festival | The central area of the city |
In the middle of August | Honba Tsurusaki dance Festival | Tsurusaki park |
Beginning of September | Kaku no Ichi | Kaku Shrine |
Beginning of September | Imaichi stone-paved road Festival | Notsuharu Imaichi area |
Beginning of September | Seki no taitsuri Dance Festival | Saganoseki poat |
Late in October | Amabe no matsuri | Kamezuka mounded tomb Park |
Late in October | Oita International wheelchair Marathon | Oita city |
Beginning of November | Saganoseki Furusato Festival | Saganoseki citizen's center |
In the middle of November | Onogawa kassen (battle) Festival | Under the Dainan bridge Ono river side |
In the middle of November | Mt. Takasaki free day event | Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden |
In Oita city, there are a wide variety of high qualities at lower prices hotels. Some hotels even have a hot spring on their premises.
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Oita Station, 1-1 Kaname-machi, Oita City
097-532-0723
8:30-19:00 (12/31~1/2 8:30-17:00)
1F Osaru-kan,3078-40 Kanzaki,Oita City
8:30-17:00
call 110 (There is a police box in front of north gate of Oita Station)
call 119
Oita can be reached from other major cities by plane, train, expressway bus, ferry or car.
Oita Airport is linked to Haneda (Tokyo), Narita (Tokyo), Itami (Osaka), Chubu (Nagoya), Seoul, Busan, Muan
Airport limousine "Airliner" from Oita Airport to JR Oita station (1hour)
Oita Station is linked to Hakata (Fukuoka), Kokura, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Aso, and Kurume by express and local lines.
There’re two ports in Oita City. Each port can be reached by either bus or taxi.