Kumamoto City 熊本市

Kyûshû

Kumamoto, also called the “City of Forests”, has about 740,000 inhabitants and is located in the centre of the southern main island of Kyûshû. It has been a castle town – Kumamoto-jô – since the beginning of the 17th century and is today the capital of the prefecture of the same name. In 1632, the Suizenji Jôju-en landscape garden was built in Suizenji Park in the style of the Momoyama era (1568/73-1600/1603).