Sugar Road stories. Kyushu has a long history of sending sweet stuff east. In the early 16th century, the Portuguese introduced sugar to Japan via the island’s southwestern port of Nagasaki.

Kyushu's sugar road: The Japanese island of Kyushu is where sugar was first introduced to the country. One of the island's most famous sweets is castella (pictured), a cake influenced by the ...

Many breweries in Kyushu add a blend of sugar and other sweeteners at the end of the process. Yamagami Koji is president of Kitai Shoyu, a brewery founded in 1897 in Fukuoka Prefecture's Itoshima ...

This family adventure was to begin in Kumamoto in western Kyushu, from where I, guided by my wife and with our two young children in tow, would drive 130km (80 miles) east to Beppu on the opposite ...

In true road trip spirit, I have only a vague idea of where I want to go. My goals are: to do a loose lap of Kyushu – which is about half the size of Tasmania – see a few volcanoes and revisit ...

Kyushu's sugar road: The Japanese island of Kyushu is where sugar was first introduced to the country. One of the island's most famous sweets is castella (pictured), a cake influenced by the ...