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List of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan (Ōita)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16248966 ↗
Source-derived summary

This list is of the Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan located within the Prefecture of Ōita.

National Places of Scenic Beauty

As of 1 December 2025, seven Places have been designated at a national level.

Prefectural Places of Scenic Beauty

As of 1 May 2025, five Places have been designated at a prefectural level.

Municipal Places of Scenic Beauty

As of 1 May 2025, twenty-two Places have been designated at a municipal level.

Registered Places of Scenic Beauty

As of 27 December 2025, thirteen Monuments have been registered (as opposed to designated) as Places of Scenic Beauty at a national level, including Shiramizu Falls, which spans the prefectural borders with Kumamoto.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, Places and Scenic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan (Ōita)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.