Bungotakada

Bungotakada is a city in Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. It sits on the western side of the Kunisaki Peninsula, facing the Gulf of Suo at the edge of the Seto Inland Sea, and its center is the Takada area, which spreads across the plains along the Katsura River and was once a prosperous shipping and commercial town. Many mountain valleys radiate from Mount Futago, an inactive volcano at the center of the peninsula. The area holds numerous Buddhist temples of the Rokugo Manzan tradition, which is said to be the origin of the syncretism of Buddhism and Shinto in Japan, including Fuki-ji, whose Main Hall is a National Treasure. The town of Takada took the name Bungotakada in 1954 and became a city that same year, and in 2005 it absorbed the towns of Kakaji and Matama. Agriculture is the economic base, with negi, buckwheat and peanuts among the leading crops of western Japan.