Located in the northeast of Kyushu, Oita borders Ehime, with the Hoyo Strait and the Bungo Channel in between, on the east and Yamaguchi across the Sea of Suo on the earth. To the north is a lava plateau, where you can enjoy the dynamic beauty of the Yabakei Gorge and other ravines, like the Aono-domon ("Tunnel of Ao") made through rocks, with mural precipices and numberless rocks and stones of fantastic shape eroded by rivers running between mountains
