【上野神楽】
  上野神楽は、国の重要無形民俗文化財に指定された「高千穂の夜神楽」の一つで、上野地区に保存・継承されている。上野地区は、町中心部から北およそ５kmに位置し丘陵に耕地が開け、古くから人々が住み上野古墳周辺からは縄文・弥生土器が出土する。
  上野神楽は高千穂の夜神楽の上野・田原系統に属し、五穀や岩戸開きの衣装が色彩豊かである。神楽前半は、平手による祓い清めの舞が多く、深夜になってから着面の舞が多くなる。御神体は子どもが寝静まった時間帯に、岩戸開きは日の出の前後に行う。高千穂の夜神楽の中では、大神の後半の願成就で女性が神庭に入るのを唯一許している。また、幣神添で道化荒神が入る特色もある。

【Kamino-Kagura】
Kamino-Kagura is one of Takachiho Yokagura (a night dance in Takachiho), a Japan’s national important intangible folk cultural asset. It has been preserved and inherited in the Kamino area, which is located approximately 5 kilometers north of the town center. Laid out with hills and cultivated fields, Kamino has been inhabited since ancient times. Earthenware of the Jomon and Yayoi periods has been excavated around the Kamino tumulus.
Kamino-Kagura belongs to the line of Kamino and Tabaru of Takachiho Yokagura and is characterized with colorful outfits for the Gokoku (rich harvest) and the Iwatobiraki (opening the cave of the heaven) dances. Exorcism and purification prevail during the first half of the performance; as the performance gets late into the night, more dances are performed with masks on. The Goshintai dance, also known as “the creation of Japan” dance, is performed when children are sound asleep, while the Iwatobiraki dance is performed at dawn. Among Takachiho Yokagura, Kamino-Kagura is the only kagura that allows females to enter kouniwa, a sacred place where kagura is being performed, during the scene of Ganjoju (wishes fulfilled) towards the end of the Daijin dance. Another characteristic of Kamino-Kagura is featuring of kojin (the fierce god of cooking stoves) with a comical mask on at the Hikanze dance, where the kojin dances with gohei (a wand with plaited paper streamers that is used in a Shinto ceremony).