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Article: 🕊 After Stories|Isa City, Southern Kyushu of Healing and Prayer – A journey to purify your soul in the city of fog and waterfalls

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🕊 After Stories|Isa City, Southern Kyushu of Healing and Prayer – A journey to purify your soul in the city of fog and waterfalls

🌫 A city of prayer shrouded in fog

Located at the northern tip of Kagoshima PrefectureIsa City
In this town where fog envelops the mountains and time passes slowly,
It has been known since ancient times as a place to purify your soul.

Blessed with a cool climate and abundant water sources,
The healing energy of spring water and waterfalls will envelop your whole body.

Sogi Falls bathed in the morning sun. A waterfall of light heralds the beginning of a new day.

💧 "Oriental Niagara" Sogi Falls

The scenery that represents Isa isSogi Falls
The magnificent waterfall is 210 meters wide and 12 meters high.
Due to its impressive power, it is called the "Niagara of the East".

The water flowing down with a roar,
It seems to wash away even the murmurs in the back of your mind.

The moment when the water splashes catch the light and form a rainbow,
The meaning of the phrase ``nature's prayer'' gently falls into my heart.

Sogi Falls with rising water. A moment when you feel the power and majesty of nature.

🕊 A story of regeneration connected by water

For the people of Isa City, water is the center of life and prayer.
Clean groundwater is used in agriculture, hot springs, andHonkaku shochu preparation waterIt is also used as

Among them, shochu represented by “Isa Nishiki” is
brought to you by local watersoftness and depthI am staying here.

Drawing water and preparing it with prayer...
The "heart of Southern Kyushu", where nature and people live together, is alive and well here.

Sogi Waterfall splashing water. The water of life flows down with a roar.

🌿 Healing hot springs and time to soothe your soul

In Isa, the town of waterfalls and fog,
There are also hot springs scattered around where you can feel the power of nature.

Sogi Falls Hot Spring Center"Then,
You can spend a luxurious time soaking in the hot water while feeling the roar of the waterfall in the distance.

Also, “Hishikari OnsenThe hot water is as soft as silk,
It provides a healing experience that wraps around your body and mind.

A row of cherry blossom trees blooming at Sogi Falls Park. A soothing path that heralds the arrival of spring.
A spring scene in Isa where carp streamers swim in the wind. A calm landscape of clear streams and mountains.
Illumination at Sogi Falls Park. A fantastic world of light that colors the winter night.

💠 “Purification philosophy” that resonates with Hot Spring Water 99 and Isa

Isa's fog, waterfalls, and spring water--
All of that isnatural circulation and regenerationIt symbolizes.

This resonates deeply with the philosophy of "purity and harmony" that Onsensui 99 values.

People are healed by water, and water is appreciated by people.
This kind of "gentle circulation" still exists in this area.

Sogi Falls shrouded in morning mist. A landscape of prayer that breathes in silence.

🌅 at the end of the journey

Isa City, which reached the end of the “Southern Kyushu of Healing and Prayer” series,
It has a tranquility that seems to envelop the whole of southern Kyushu.

The sound of a waterfall, the scent of mist, the warmth of hot water...
All of this will be engraved as a “reverberation of prayer” that remains deep in our hearts.

Water is alive.
And people, too, are kept alive within this cycle.

Rock walls and clear stream near the remains of the Sogi Power Plant. A quiet valley nurtured by the nature of Isa.

This article is the final installment of the "After Stories|Healing and Prayer in Southern Kyushu" series.
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