検索ボックス

History / Culture / Tour Spots in Iwakuni / Yanai / Suooshima Area

Area

  • Kintaikyo Bridge
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Iwakuni
    Kintaikyo Bridge is ranked as one of Japan’s three most famous bridges, and is a wooden construction with five consecutive arched bridge that span the clear streams of the Nishikigawa River in Iwakuni City. It was built in 1673 by the Iwakuni clan’s lord Kikkawa Hiroyoshi. With a total length of 193 meters and a width of five meters, the bridge has been constructed using timberwork technique involving joints and coupling. Although it was swept away by a typhoon in 1950, it was restored in 1953. There are numerous opportunities to appreciate the scenery in all four seasons such as cormorant fishing during the summer and colorful changing leaves in the autumn, yet the blossoming cherry trees in spring are particularly beautiful, and the area has been designated as one of Japan’s top 100 places to see cherry blossoms.
    Kintaikyo Bridge image
  • Iwakuni Shirohebi Shrine
    rating-image
    4.0
    82 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Imadumachi 6-4-2
    "This is a shrine in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The deity worshipped at ""Itsukushima Shrine"", in Hiroshima Prefecture was relocated, and the shrine founded in a sacred festival in 2012. The ""white snake"" have been designated as a natural monument, and with their faith and protection many worshipers visit praying for luck with money and business prosperity. Visitors are able to find decorations and design elements based around white snakes."

    The Shirohebi Shrine is one of my favorites in Iwakuni. This shrine is newer, well kept up, and is home to several of the famous White Snakes. I have been here numerous times and its always fun to...

    Iwakuni Shirohebi Shrine image
  • Imazu (Tenjin) White Snake Museum
    rating-image
    4.0
    57 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Iwakuni-shi Imazumachi 6-4-2

    I have been interested in visiting this museum ever since coming to Iwakuni. I find the white snakes to be beautiful and majestic. I also find it great how Iwakuni preserves them and tries to protect...

    Imazu (Tenjin) White Snake Museum image
  • Yokoyama White Snake Viewing Facility
    rating-image
    3.5
    40 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Yokoyama 2-6-52 (in YoshiKaoru park)
    Located next to Kikko Park in the Yokoyama district of Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the Yokoyama White Snake Viewing Facility is a place where visitors can see the famous “Iwakuni White Snakes,” which have been designated as a National Natural Monument. The facility has recently been renovated and renamed as the Iwakuni White Snake Museum. Inside the facility there are displays on the biology of the White Snakes, along with models, showings of video footage, displays about the legends associated with the White Snakes, etc. A real effort has been made to ensure that visitors can enjoy learning about the Iwakuni White Snakes.

    岩国城ロープウェイ乗り場の前にある施設です。 岩国名物のシロヘビを展示しています。 こじんまりとした施設ですが、解説は多く、意外と見応えはあります。 入場料も安いのでとりあえず入ってみるといいと思います。

    Yokoyama White Snake Viewing Facility image
  • Kanro Soy Sauce Museum (Sagawa Shoyu-gura)
    rating-image
    4.0
    31 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Yanai-shi Yanai 3708-1
    A museum run by Sagawa Shoyu Soy Sauce Brewery, established in 1830. Part of the storehouse where Yanai's specialty Kanro Soy Sauce is kept has been opened to the public as a museum. Kanro Soy Sauce is a Sai-Shikomi (refermented) soy sauce made by adding malted rice to already finished soy sauce and allowing it to ferment again. Inside the museum you can watch the production process of Kanro Soy Sauce brewed in the cedar tubs, and various tools used to make soy sauce. The traditional smooth Kanro Soy Sauce is shipped throughout Japan and overseas as well and is always well received.

    醤油樽が蔵の奥に有ります。醤油は1780年に高田伝兵衛が想像して藩主に献上したところ大変賞賛されたそうです。蔵内の見学は無料で出来ますよ。

  • Iwakuni Castle
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Yokoyama 3
    Kikkawa Hiroie, the first leader of the Iwakuni clan, constructed this castle on the summit of Mt. Yokoyama in 1608. However, due to the “one castle per province” order, it was dismantled a mere seven years later in 1615, and government affairs were carried out in a residence at the base of the mountain. The current castle tower was restored in 1962 based on illustrations and diagrams of the castle tower’s original construction, and offers unbroken views of the Seto Inland Sea area including Kikko Park, Kintaikyo Bridge, the city of Iwakuni and Miyajima. Visitors can also see the stone walls of the former castle tower which have been restored according to the stonework techniques of the time.
    Iwakuni Castle image
  • Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii
    rating-image
    4.5
    21 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Oshima-gun Suooshima Cho Nishiyashiro 2144
    This museum showing the depth of the bond between Suo-Oshima Town and Hawaii. It exhibits the history of emigrants and materials to know about exchanges with Hawaii currently being conducted. The first time emigrants left Japan was in 1885. It is said that about 30% of the first 944 government-approved emigrants were people from Oshima County. From then until 1923, when emigration was banned, more than one million Japanese emigrated abroad, and their grandchildren extended to fifth and sixth generations. Inside the facility, you can learn about the hardships of the emigrants who crossed the ocean with their dreams and how they established their lives.

    We thoroughly enjoyed exploring the artifacts and records related to the Japanese emigration to Hawaii. My ancestors were among those who left Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. The rooms had...

    Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii image
  • Iwakuni Antiquities Museum
    rating-image
    3.5
    24 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamaguchi Iwakuni-shi Yokoyama 2-7-19
    A museum located in 2 Chome, Yokoyama, Iwakuni City. It houses valuable historical materials and artwork donated by the Yoshikawa family, the former Iwakuni feudal lords. In addition to a permanent exhibit showcasing the history of Iwakuni, it also holds special exhibits and history lectures. Constructed in 1945, the building is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property.

    戦時中の1945年に完成した石造り風の歴史的建築物です。館内には、吉川家ゆかりの歴史資料、美術品や工芸品などが展示されています。入館は無料なので気軽に見学できます。

    Iwakuni Antiquities Museum image
  • Kikkawa Historical Museum
    rating-image
    3.5
    22 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Yokoyama 2-7-3
    A history museum located in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture which preserves and displays historical materials and artwork passed down from the Kikkawa clan, the former rulers of the ancient Iwakuni Domain. The museum’s collection includes some 2,500 National Important Cultural Properties, such as an original copy of the historic epic the “Taiheiki” and the “Kikkawa-ke monjo” Kikkawa clan records, in addition to Kitsunegaseki, a long sword designated a National Treasure. The front gate was originally built as part of the retirement residence of the seventh lord of Iwakuni Domain in 1793 and is designated a Tangible Cultural Property by the city of Iwakuni. The complex also has a black granite stage as well as a garden covered with white gravel that is a must-see.

    錦雲閣から佐々木小次郎の像へと向かうお濠沿いにある。藩主吉川家にゆかりの品を展示している史料館。かつては藩校の門であったという正門とそれに続く白壁は美しい。今回は時間の都合で内部は見学せず、門の写真だけ撮った。

    Kikkawa Historical Museum image
  • Mutsu Memorial Museum
    rating-image
    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Oshimagunsuouoshimachou Ihota 2211-3
    "This museum located in Oshima County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, exhibits documents, items and relics from the salvaged ""Battleship Mutsu"". Visitors can also view the bow and propeller in the outdoor exhibition. There is also a memorial monument erected on a spot overlooking the sea and many tourists visit the museum."

    記念館、水族館、キャンプ場、公園などが整備されています。周防大島の東になります。9月の4連休で尋ねたときにはたくさんの人がテントを張ってくつろいでいました。屋外に大きな飛行機が展示されて迫力があります。少し雨風で汚れているので、ピカピカにしたら素晴らしいのにと思いました。

    Mutsu Memorial Museum image
  • Muroya-no-sono Merchant House Museum
    rating-image
    4.5
    14 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamaguchi Yanai-shi Yanaitsu Kanaya 439
    A musueum located within the Shirakabe Townscape, a Nation's Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings. The museum occupies the former mansion of the Oda family, one of the leading oil merchants in west Japan. The house features Irimoya (hip-and-gable) roof with an entrance on gable side and white plaster walls. With a length of nearly 120-meters and covering an area of 800-tsubo (nearly 2650 square meters) this mansion is one of the largest classic townhouses remaining within the country. Within the mansion are a number of classic living implements and documents showing off the lifestyle of a prosperous Yanai merchant.

    Great experience and highly recommended. I went on a quiet late afternoon and was met by the lady running the museum and the son who is a long descendant of the owner of the building. They were both...

    Muroya-no-sono Merchant House Museum image
  • Hoshino Tetsuro Museum
    rating-image
    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Oshimagunsuouoshimachou Hirano 417-11
    "The works and documents of song writer Tetsuro Hoshino are displayed in this museum, located in Oshima County, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The museum is made up of five areas: ""Hoshino Theater"", ""Hoshino Workshop"", ""Hoshino Song Bar"", ""Hoshino Exhibition"" and ""Hoshino Movie Theater"". Visitors can experience the work of Tetsuro Hoshino in various forms. The museum also presents exhibitions based on his music works."

    隣が民俗学者の宮本常一の記念館です。これは小学校の体育館のようなイメージですが、星野哲郎の記念館は、モダンな美術館のイメージですね。皆が知っている歌をたくさん作っていますので、周防大島に行ったらぜひ尋ねたい場所です。

    Hoshino Tetsuro Museum image
  • Iwakuni Educational Museum
    rating-image
    5.0
    3 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Iwakuni-shi Iwakuni 3-1-8
    A museum located in 3 Chome, Iwakuni, Iwakuni City. It's housed in the Iwakuni Gakko Kosha; built in 1870 by the second lord of Iwakuni, Tsunetake Kikkawa, it's a prefectural Tangible Cultural Property. The museum exhibits educational materials and items from the region. Also exhibited are materials related to Ichisuke Fujioka; an Iwakuni Gakko graduate, he was the founder of Tokyo Electric Power Company, the first electric company in Japan.

    This museum was a former elementary school. It is unique in having a completely Japanese style with a Western style third floor added on top of the two original stories later on. One early example of...

    Iwakuni Educational Museum image
  • Yahata Lifelong Learning Village
    rating-image
    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamaguchi Oshima-gun Suooshima Cho Kuka 1102-1
    """Machishu culture"" is the culture of the common people built up in the Kuka area, which was a part of the industrial structure from the middle ages to early modern period. The Yahata Lifelong Learning Village is a learning facility with a library, pottery museum and early Showa period farmhouse as a base for handing down the culture of the town. Visitors can learn about unique urban planning and culture through the exhibition of tools and daily necessities used by soy sauce brewers, ship builders, blacksmiths and others. In addition to regular pottery classes, the museum also offers one-day pottery workshops such as forming pottery by hand instead of using a potter's wheel, slab building, and making a pottery lathe."

    This museum has a very nice collection. It is worth seeing, but unfortunately, the descriptions is only written in japanese so you might want to ask your friends for translation.

    Yahata Lifelong Learning Village image
  • Iwakuni Art Museum Kashiwara Collection
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Yokoyama 2-10-27
    "Located an eight-minute drive from the Iwakuni Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway, this is one of the few art museums in Japan for old armor, and is in front of Iwakuni Castle Ropeway Mountain Foot Station. Storing approximately 6,000 pieces of armor such as suit armor and swords from the Nara period (710-794) to the Edo period (1603-1868), old documents, writings and old mirrors, it exhibits about 200 pieces including the famous Kawanakajima Kassenzu, a folding screen with eight panels painted the battle of Kawanakajima. In addition to the ""Life and Death Culture"" exhibition, which introduces armor with the lives of samurai, and ""Cultures of Life"" exhibition, which introduces the traditional culture that colored the lives of samurai, various special exhibitions and exhibitions are also held."
    Iwakuni Art Museum Kashiwara Collection image
  • Shirasaki Hachimangu
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Iwakuni-shi Imazu 6-12-23
    Shirasaki Hachimangu image
  • Former Mekata Family Residence
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Pref. Iwakunishi Yokoyama
    The Mekata Family Residence is a mid-level samurai residence which was built in the middle of the Edo period. Iwakuni’s samurai residences were usually two-story constructions as a protection against flooding of the Nishikigawa River, and although the Mekata Family Residence is also a two-story construction, it looks as though it is a one-story house since the front has a large main roof without any windows. This style of construction is to have given consideration to avoid looking down upon the clan’s lord when he passed by. It was designated a as National Important Cultural Property in 1974.
    Former Mekata Family Residence image
  • Kagawa Family Nagayamon Gate
    Travel / Tourism
    Yamaguchi Iwakuni-shi Yokoyama 2 Yoshi Koyatsu Park
    A historic building located in 2 Chome, Yokoyama, Iwakuni City. Built in 1693, it was the nagaya-mon gate of the Kagawa clan, one of the five chief retainers of the Iwakuni Domain. It was built by Oya Kazaemon, a carpenter who served as the head of construction for the city's Kintai Bridge. It was designated as a prefectural Cultural Property because of its value as an extant Genroku period samurai residence.
    Kagawa Family Nagayamon Gate image
  • Doppo Kunikida's Former Residence
    Travel / Tourism
    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.
    Doppo Kunikida's Former Residence image
  • Shoko-an Temple / Willow Tree and Well
    Travel / Tourism
    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.
    Shoko-an Temple / Willow Tree and Well image
Yamaguchi Iwakuni / Yanai / Suooshima
Travel / Tourism History / Culture / Tour
Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum Shrine Castle / Ruins of Castle Historical Monument Temple Church Ruin / Grave / Ancient Tomb Memorial Hall Cultural Property Event Hall / Public Hall Art Museum Museum / Science Museum Other Historic Site/Building

Yamaguchi Areas

around-area-map

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.

Yamaguchi

    Yamaguchi Photo Album

    banner_photo

    Best of Yamaguchi

    Search by Region

    Browse Interests