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Monument of Hagi Castle Town

4.0

308 Reviews

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Yamaguchi Pref. Hagishi Gofukumachi 2

"This is a monument standing in a corner of ""Edoya Yokocho Alley"" and ""Onarimichi"" in Hagi city, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Visitors can view the charming alleys, shops and samurai residences in the surrounding area which was where merchants and middle to lower class samurai warriors once lived. The area has also been selected as a nationally designated historical site. Rental cycles, are available and many tourists make use of them to explore the castle town."

Pleasant street of vendors. You can buy the hagi yaki pottery that they are famous for here. Note: the feature is a notched bottom. People were friendly. They boxed and wrapped each box.
Birthplace of Takasugi Shinsaku

3.5

74 Reviews

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Yamaguchi Pref. Hagishi Minamifuruhagimachi 23

Takasugi Shinsaku created the first auxiliary irregular militia in Japan known as Kiheitai which, with its novel idea and dynamism, led to the triumphant victory over the shogunate. The birthplace of Takasugi Shinsaku, the lucky mercenary of the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, is located in Minamifuruhagi Town, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Currently, the southern part of the former residence is open to the public. In addition to the well said to be used to give the newborn Shinsaku his first bath and a memorial stone with Shinsaku’s haiku engraved on it, there are a number of artifacts connected with Takasugi Shinsaku on display in the old house. * Because the house is privately owned only viewing from outside is permitted.

萩の古い町並みの一番奥にあって、中央公園駐車場に車を止めてとほでやく５-１０分で行くことができます。屋敷の中には高杉晋作の銅像もあり古きをしのべます。
Kitamuki Jizoson

4.0

6 Reviews

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Yamaguchi Ube-shi Nishikiwa

A Jizo Bodhisattva statue in Kamikatakura Nishikiwa, Ube City. It is said that a visit there provides benefits such as recovery from illness; wafting the smoke from incense burned in offering on the affected part of the body is said to produce the best results. In addition to regular festivals on the 24th of each month, special festivals are held in January, April, and August.

正直、寂しい場所ですね＞＜ただ、法仏殿には、藤井フミヤの、色紙のサインが、飾っていました＾＾正直驚いています。24日は、法仏殿は、無料開放ですので、ぜひ、確かめに、行ってください。隣近所には、お寺も、ありますが、ほとんど、使われていない、公民館がありますが、天理教の支部として、貸し出したら、活性化されると、思われます。最近、山を、切り開いていますが、段々の、墓場として、募集されると、人が、集まりま...
Birthplace of Kusaka Genzui

3.5

2 Reviews

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Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Hiyakomachi 537-2

"This is the ruin of Kusaka Genzui's former residence. Genzui was a loyalist in the late Edo period and, along with Takasugi Shinsaku, called one of the ""Twin Jewels of Shokason-juku Academy."" This space is found in Hagi Castle town, near to Kankitsu Park and the former Tanaka Villa, and hosts a stele bearing a memorial poem. Kusaka Genzui was born in 1840, and was called by Yoshida Shoin, the master of Shokason-juku Academy, ""a young man bearing the greatest wisdom in Bocho [the region currently known as Yamaguchi]."" He committed suicide at the age of 25, earning him deeper fame for leading the domain theory to Sonno Joi (revere the emperor, expel the western barbarians) political philosophy. Hagi's Central Park, about a five-minute walk from the stele, also holds a gallant statue of the young Genzui."

高杉晋作とともに“松下村塾の双璧”と称されていた幕末の志士・久坂玄瑞の旧宅跡。宿泊先「リゾートホテル美萩」のレンタサイクルを利用し10分ほどで到着しました。現在は、追悼の和歌が刻まれた「久坂玄瑞君追憶碑」など３つの石碑が建っているだけです。見逃してしまいそうな場所にありますので、事前に地図で確認しておいた方が良いと思います。萩市役所前発着の循環バスを利用する場合は、西回りの「晋作くん」に乗り「久坂...
Ebisugahana Shipyard

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Yamaguchi Pref. Hagishi Tsubaki East 5159-14

"This is an historic site in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is the site of the shipyard where the Choshu Domain built a Western-style sailing ship in towards the end of the Tokugawa period. It is a World Heritage site representing the ""Industrial Revolution of the Meiji Period of Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding, and the Coal Industry"". Visitors can enjoy the sea view from the stone breakwater wall."
Issei Maebara Former Residence

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Yamaguchi Pref. Hagishi Hijiwara 315-1

The former home of Maebara Issei, a central figure of the 1878 Hagi Rebellion, can be found at this historic site in Sanyo-Onoda City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The building has been renovated twice but the old well and old persimmon trees remain, evoking an atmosphere of the past. The building is still privately owned so visitors can only view the exterior.
Omura Masujiro Birth House

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Yamaguchi Pref. Yamaguchishi Suzenji 5669

This historical site is located about a three-minute walk from Yotsuji Station on the JR Sanyo main line. It is the site of the birthplace of Omura Masujiro, a doctor, Western scholar, and military strategist who served the Choshu Domain at the end of the Edo period (1603–1868), and is one of the instigators of the Meiji Restoration, and now there is monument of Omura there. The surrounding area is maintained as a park with carpark, and visitors are invited to explore.
Hagi Reverberatory Furnace

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Yamaguchi Pref. Hagishi Tsubaki East 4897-7

The Hagi Reverberatory Furnace was constructed in 1856, towards the end of the Edo period, with the aim of casting iron cannon to strengthen Japan’s maritime defenses. Today, only part of the chimney survives; it is around 10.5 meters in height. The Hagi Furnace is one of only three reverberatory furnaces that survive today in Japan; this is a very important monument that allows visitors to learn about the technology of the time.
Former Site of the Akamagaseki Inarimachi

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Yamaguchi Shimonoseki-shi Akamacho
Heike no Ippai-mizu

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Yamaguchi Shimonoseki-shi Maedacho 2-1-1
Gochuan

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Yamaguchi Yamaguchi-shi Ogorishimogo Yaashi

"This is a reconstruction of the hermitage where Santoka Taneda, a wandering haiku poet, spent his time from 1932 to 1938 based on a plan drawn by Reireika Chikaki, who was a familiar visitor at the time. The name ""Gochuan"" was taken from words that appear in the Lotus Sutra. Along with the garden and a rest area with a buried earthen jar that makes sound when water drips into it, it is open to visitors free of charge in memory of Santoka. There are many sights to see, such as a monument with a poem written by Santoka's teacher Seisensui Ogiwara next to the building, an arbor, and a well used by Santoka."
Unkokuan Ruins

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Yamaguchi Yamaguchi-shi Tenge 1-12-10

These are the ruins of the former residence of the medieval master painter Sesshu. It is said that he lived here at the invitation of the Ouchi clan when he visited around the age of 40. In 1467, Sesshu came to China on a Japanese mission ship, learned painting techniques of coloring and breaking ink (a traditional technique of Chinese painting), and returned to Japan. He is said to have remained in Yamaguchi until his death, working on his art and training his students. The building fell into disrepair after the Meiji period (1868-1912), but it was restored in 1884 using old wood from an old shrine. It is now registered as a city-designated historic site.
Chuya Nakahara Poem Monument

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Yamaguchi Yamaguchi-shi Yudaonsen 3-chome (Nishikigawa Dori) 2-chome (Takayama Park)

"This monument is to Chuya Nakahara, a poet from Yamaguchi who ended his short life in a distant and foreign land. Along Nishikigawa-dori Street, which is lined with inns and hotels in Yuda, one of Chuya's representative works, ""Doyo (nursery song),"" one of his unpublished poems, is inscribed with letters copied from his own manuscript. This poem was written in 1933 and is famous for its inclusion in Japanese elementary school language textbooks. In the city, in addition to Nishikigawa-dori Street, there are poetry monuments in Inoue Park, Takada Park and Narutaki Chomonkyo Gorge."
Noyama Prison Ruins & Iwakura Prison Ruins

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Yamaguchi Hagi-shi

These Municipal Historic Sites are about a 10-minute walk from Higashi-Hagi Station. In 1645, an incident occurred in which the upper-class retainer samurai Iwakura Magobe was drunk and broke into the residence of fellow retainer Noyama Rokuemon and killed his family. Iwakura was sentenced to decapitation, and both clans were broken up and their lands confiscated. The domain later used both houses as prisons, and since the primary guilt lay on Iwakura, the Noyama house was used as a prison for upper class samurai, while Iwakura's was a prison for commoners. Noyama Prison hosted many patriots imprisoned, such as Yoshida Shoin after his failed plot to stowaway to escape abroad, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Katori Motohiko. Iwakura Prison once held Kaneko Shigenosuke, a former attendant of Yoshida Shoin. These ruins offer a glimpse into the turmoil that swept the Hagi domain during the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Kikugahama Dorui (Onago Daiba)

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Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Imauonotanamachi

This Municipal Historic Site includes about 50 meters of earthen defense work, standing three meters high and 12 meters wide. In 1863, the Sonno-Joi movement of reverence for the Emperor was spreading throughout the Choshu domain, and ships from Western countries were attacked by cannons from Shimonoseki as they passed through the Kanmon strait. The people of Hagi felt this meant there was need to defend the castle town on their own, and the rulers ordered earthwork defenses built along the Sea of Japan at Kikugahama beach. The young and old people left in the town went to work regardless of their status, wealth or age, and the particularly great efforts of the samurai wives and ladies-in-waiting in building the earthworks earned it the nickname Onago Daiba (Ladies' Fort).
Birthplace of Yamagata Arima

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Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Kawashima 313-1

This is the birthplace of Yamagata Aritomo, an important figure from Hagi in the Meiji Restoration and eventual prime minister of Japan. He was educated at the Shokasonjuku Academy under Yoshida Shoin, and later served an active role in the Choshu domain. After the restoration, he served a central role in the Meiji government as one of the Choro, elder statesmen from the Choshu domain, until his death in 1922. A three meter high monument stands on the bank of the Hashimoto river in the spot where he was born in 1838.
Birthplace of Yoshida Shoin

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Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Chinto 1433-1

This is the birthplace of Yoshida Shoin, leader of the Shokason-juku Academy, which is famous for having produced many of the figures who would go on to shape the Meiji Restoration. The picturesque hill, called Dangoiwa (dumpling boulder), offers a view over all of Hagi city. None of the original buildings remain on the premises, but there are foundation stones indicating the layout of the mansion that was set up in Taisho period, offering a hint at the life Shoin led until he was around 19 years old. There are bronze statues of Yoshida Shoin and Kaneko Shigenosuke near the birthplace, and a stone monument by a Shokason-juku Academy student Yamagata Aritomo.
Suo Kokuga Ato (Suo Domain Government Office Site)

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Yamaguchi Hofu-shi Kokuga

The Kokuga was the name of the government office where government officials called Kokushi would perform their duties starting in the late 7th century. While many provincial offices were relocated or reduced due to the change and decline of the Ritsuryo system after the Heian period the Suo office came under control of Todaiji Temple starting in the Kamakura period and survived until the early modern period. The Suo Kokuga was presumed to have been the central government building of the local region and governed the entire provincial region, the port in the Hamanomiya area, and as far west as the Ohi embankment. It was the first government provincial office site in the country to have been designated a National Historic Site. The presumed located of the government office is now maintained as a park.
Doppo Kunikida's Former Residence

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Yamaguchi Yanai-shi Himeda 11-5

This mansion is where Meiji author Kunikida Doppo spent several years in his youth. He lived here from 1892 to 1894 during his impressionable 20s period. Inside the residence you'll find a bust of the author along with various items that belonged to Doppo including a Chinese lute and a diary in his own handwriting, which can be viewed only from outside.. He wrote many works centered around the theme of Yanai including 'Shonen no Hiai (Young Man's Grief)' and 'Kikyorai (Returning Home)'. It's said that the short story 'Shonen no Hiai' is based on the period that Doppo resided here.
Shoko-an Temple / Willow Tree and Well

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Yamaguchi Yanai-shi Yanai 3058-1

The willow tree (yanagi) and well (Ido) that form the basis for the name of the Yanai region. Legend states that some 1400 years ago Princess Hannya was summoned by Emperor Yomei but as she was travelling to the capital disaster struck. She made her way to this well and askedsome water from a villager. The villager gave her pure water from the well and by drinking it she was able to escape death. In thanks she left a willow branch by the well and overnight it sprung up into a great willow tree. Because of this the area would come to be called Yagii and this name would be changed to Yanai during the Edo period. The present willow is the fifth generation of that tree. Another legend states that if you drink from the well you'll become beautiful.

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Yamaguchi Areas

Heading west along Japan’s largest island, Honshu, the very last prefecture you’ll reach is Yamaguchi, separated from Kyushu by a small strip of water known as the Kanmon Straits, which the far-reaching harbor city Shimonoseki looks over. With water at every turn, the seafood of Yamaguchi is an indisputable highlight, and we’re not talking just the usual fish dishes - the notorious fugu, or puffer fish, is a Japanese delicacy that was discovered in Yamaguchi prefecture, making it the best place to try it out.