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  • Kaiten Memorial Museum
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    4.5
    54 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Pref. Shunanshi Odushima 1960
    This memorial hall has exhibits connected to the kaiten, a torpedo shaped special weapon, built in the remains of barracks once used by former kaiten trainees and staff. Stone monuments are lined up at the entrance, and inside panels introduce kaiten history, and lives of those involved in it. There are around 1,000 items connected to the staff in the collection. There are also dioramas recreating the base, and films of the staff speaking at the time.

    Having lived in Yamaguchi prefecture many years ago, I had heard of the museum but never thought to go there. Finally 30 years later, for a ALT 30 year reunion, we took the ferry to spend time there...

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  • Kanyoji Temple
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Pref. Shunanshi Kanokami 2872
    This temple is part of the Nanzen-ji Temple of Rinzai Sect, and is the 15th on the Chugoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. It is famous for its Kyokusui Garden, designed by a famous garden designer Shigemori Mirei. They also hold events like Special Evening Visit days, when crowds of guests come to see the beautiful gardens and Kanyo-ji temple lit up with bamboo lanterns.

    山奥の里にある立派なお寺、という感じ。そこそこの大きさの駐車場があり、お寺の横まで車でも心配なく行くことができた。石を使った造形の庭がすばらしく、特に400円を納めて見せていただいた本堂周りのお庭は、岩、石、潮音洞から流れ出る疎水の水を幾枝にも分けて引き入れた小川のハーモニーが絶妙で、幾種類もの違った感じの庭が楽しめた。昭和以降に造成された庭のようだが、枯山水、池泉、各様式が融合したこれぞ日本庭園...

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  • Shunan City Museum of Art and History
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    3.5
    20 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Pref. Shunanshi Hanabatakechou 10-16
    This is a museum located in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture exhibiting mainly the photographs of Tadahiko Hayashi, a photographer born in Shunan City. The permanent exhibition displays works of local artists such as Susumu Miyazaki, Ryusei Kishida, and Michio Mado etc. There is also a museum shop that sells original goods, books of art collections, and items related to special exhibitions, as well as a cafe terrace featuring large windows overlooking the fountain.

    移動途中に寄りましたが、とても落ち着く美しい場所です。アクセスは車が良いと思います。駅からバスは期待薄。

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  • Toishi Hachimangu Shrine
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Pref. Shunanshi Toishi 2-3-1
    This shrine was on the south side of Shunan Ryokuchi Park. It enshrines not only Homutawake-no-Mikoto, the Oujin Emperor, but also the Empress Jingu, and Munakata Sanjoshin. The temple grounds are embraced in greenery, and include eight buildings that are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties, including the main hall and heiden offertory hall. It attracts many visitors with its reputation for offering luck in warding off evil, success in business, and safe birth.

    平安時代から多くの参拝者が訪れる由緒ある神社のようで、1300年以上も存在し続けています。 石段参道を登ってお参りして来ました。上まで行くと、目の前を走る新幹線が見られたり、工場地帯も見れました。 途中には、稲荷神社や戎神社もありました。

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  • Fugenji Temple
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Hikari-shi Murozumi 8-6-1
    "An ancient Buddhist temple founded in the year 1006. Since long ago faithful from all over the country have believed in it as the ""Bodhisattva of the Sea."" The inner part of the temple grounds has a dry landscape garden with skillfully harmonized trees and stones which is said to have been created by Sesshu. It's renowned because it was made during the period when dry landscape garden construction began in earnest. It has been designated as a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty. In 1865 it served as the headquarters for the Choshu Domain troops known as the South Kihei Army as the Tokugawa period drew to a close; it's famous for being the place where about 400 soldiers met their ends."

    大きな仁王門があり、お堀に囲まれた立派なお寺。お寺だけでなく、戦前の国際連盟の脱退や日独伊三国同盟で有名な外交官（このあたりの生まれ）松岡洋右の顕彰碑がお寺の裏の方にひっそりと建っていた。また、お寺の裏の駐車場の近くには、峨嵋山の自然探求歩道の入り口があった。お寺の隣には雪舟の庭園と言われる枯山水の庭園があったが、100円を箱に入れて見ることができた。この庭に入る前に警備システムが監視音を発してい...

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  • Hirobumi Ito Museum
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Hikari-shi Tsukari 2250-1
    A museum displaying personal items of Japan's first Prime Minister, Hirobumi Ito. You can learn about Japan from the end of the Edo period to the end of the Meiji period in a building featuring Meiji brick construction. The steel-framed, one-story structure with a floor area of 534.36 square meters is located between Hirobumi Ito's birthplace and former residence, providing a symbolic connection between his childhood and later life. The exhibition room displays his uniform, the first 1,000 yen note with his portrait (issued in 1963), and furniture that he used at his villa in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture.

    当地出身の伊藤博文公を記念する公園。洋風の旧別邸、茅葺の生家、ゆかりの品や功績を説明する記念館、山口県出身の総理大臣が立てた顕彰碑、そして「旧千円札の顔出し写真撮影スポット」等があった。記念館だけは有料だが、それ以外は無料だった。駐車場は道路の向かいにあった。休日に行ったら、駐車場はそこそこ混んでいた。駐車場のとなりにカフェとトイレがあった。ちょっと立ち寄って休憩するには良いスポットだった。

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  • Ryumonji Temple
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Shunan-shi Nagaho 1075-1
    This famous Soto sect temple was established in 1429. Morimasa, the fifth generation of the Sue clan, established this temple as a family temple and enshrined the Sue clan, who were vassals of the Ouchi clan in the Muromachi period (1336-1573). The location of Morimasa's tomb is no longer known, but there are many other memorial sites, such as the Sue clan's Japanese stone pagoda and five-ringed pagoda. The Nembutsu Odori, a traditional performing art handed down in the temple, was once danced as a memorial service to the Sue clan and eventually changed into a dance to pray for rain and was passed down as an intangible folk cultural property of the prefecture. The city has a special-order tea kettle, an important cultural property designated by the city, and the history of the area is being passed down to the present day.

    This place totally rocks. I can recommend Ryumonji to anyone. Long time practitioner or just curious. Beautiful setting and a nice atmosphere.

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  • Tabuse Folk Museum
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Kumage-gun Tabuse Cho Shimotabuse 875-6
    A local museum located a five-minute walk from Tabuse Station. The personal items of well-known figures with ties to the area are on display. These include the locally born Prime Ministers Shinsuke Kishi and Eisaku Sato (who were brothers), the novelist Doppo Kunikida, and the educator Yurin Tominaga. Exhibits include medals, important documents, and beloved personal items from various countries. Visitors can recall their accomplishments through panel displays presenting their biographies and audio recordings of historical speeches. In the first floor Archaeological Hall you can see a model of the Kunimori Burial Mound, which is estimated to be the oldest in Yamaguchi Prefecture, as well as artifacts excavated from the site.

    田布施駅から徒歩で５分くらいにある無料の郷土館です。岸信介、佐藤栄作宰相の展示があります。民俗資料室では「綿 繰り器」などが展示してありました○

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  • Myokengu Jutoji Temple
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Kudamatsu-shi Naka 1-10-15
    A Buddhist temple located in 1 Chome, Nakaichi, Kudamatsu City. It's an ancient temple honored as the guardian deity of the Ouchi clan, whose influence in Yamaguchi Prefecture expanded until the Sengoku period. Temple lore says it was built by Rinsho Taishi, the founder of the Ouchi clan. Daikokuten (one of the Seven Lucky Gods) is also enshrined, and the Daikoku Market is held there annually on January 7th.

    真言宗御室派の寺院でしたが、寺号の先には鳥居が立ち、参道先の山門もまるで神社のように見えてしまいました。正面の本堂以外にもお堂が立ち、広い境内の中には境内社も立つ事から神仏習合時代の名残のように見受けられました。

  • Hanaoka Hachiman Shrine
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    Yamaguchi Pref. Kudamatsushi Suetakekami 400
    This shrine is in Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. It enshrines the deity which was divided from Usa Hachimangu Shrine in Oita and transferred to this shrine in 709AD. They hold numerous cultural properties of Japan including historical documents and licenses with the seal of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, odachi long swords, and Shinto wooden plaques showing street scenes and customs of the Edo period. The two-story pagoda (Akaibo-Toba) located on the grounds has been designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
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  • Akaibo-Toba (Tahoto) Pagoda
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    Yamaguchi Kudamatsu-shi Hanaoka
    A tahoto pagoda on the precincts of Hanaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Hanaoka Ebisu-cho, Kudamatsu City. It is said to be one of the 16 Pagodas of Hachimangu Shrine built by Fujiwara no Kamatari. The pagoda you see today is presumed to have been built at the end of the Muromachi period. It is 13.7 meters high, double-storied, and has a shingled roof. It's been designated a national Important Cultural Property.
  • Shikairo
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    Yamaguchi Kumage-gun Kaminosekicho Murotsu 868-1
    A Western-style wooden building completed in 1879 in Murotsu, a port town that prospered as a key hub for marine transport since the days of old. The four-story giyofu-style wooden structure is rare in Japan, and it's one of the oldest Western-style buildings in the prefecture. The Meiji Reformation patriot Ogata Kenkuro used it for hosting guests and as lodging. The exterior and interior are both elaborate, with plaster sculptures of Chinese lions and peonies on the third-floor walls. The ceiling on the fourth floor is decorated with a plaster Chinese phoenix and the windows incorporate French stained glass.
  • Kaminoseki Guardhouse
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    Yamaguchi Kumage-gun Kaminosekicho
    Guardhouses were lookouts established by the Hagi Domain at strategic points along the border and other points on the coast and inland during the Edo period. The onigawara roof ornamentation has the Hagi Mori family crest. The facility was used to monitor passers-by and ships and collect shipping taxes. Built by the fourth lord of the Nagashima clan in 1632, it was relocated to Kaminoseki in 1711 as a port of call for Korean envoys and a matter of convenience. The valuable building is the only guardhouse left in the prefecture. It was relocated in 1996 and restored to its original form.
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  • Hikari Furusato Kyodokan
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    Yamaguchi Hikari-shi Murozumi 5-6-5
    "A local museum established for the 50th anniversary of the municipality as one of its ""hometown creation"" projects. It consists of a main building and an annex restored by the Isobe family who owned a soy sauce shop under the name ""Isotami (later Isoya)"" from the Edo period to the mid-1950s. The Isobe Honke building is a unique merchant house structure colloquially called an unagi no nedoko (eel bed). The long two-story wooden building with narrow frontage recalls the prosperity of the port town of Murozumi. Exhibits on the kitamaebune ships that called at Murozumi during the Edo period, displays of equipment used for soy sauce brewing, and other displays let you learn about the lifestyles and culture of those days."
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  • Shunan Cultural Hall
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    Yamaguchi Shunan-shi Tokuyama Park 5854-41
  • Yamasaki Hachimangu Shrine
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Shunan-shi Miyanomae 1-6-13

    創建はハッキリしない様ですが、700年頃から祀られる対象としては存在していた様でかなり古い神社と云えると思います。 昔は海がもっと近く、浜から参道が神社まで続いていたとも言われている様です。 敷地自体はそこまで大きく無いものの、参道から石段を上がり、山門をくぐって拝殿へ進む雰囲気はなかなか良いです。 見どころは幾つかありますが、印象的なのは幾つかの祭事等をHPで動画で紹介していたり、境内に地元放送...

  • Nishoyamada Shrine
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Shunan-shi Kanokami 2898

    バリアフリーで拝殿前まで上がれる。ただし、石畳や砂利の所も多いので、車椅子は少し難儀かもしれないと思った。大木が林立する中にあることで神聖な雰囲気が醸し出され、いろいろな由緒がありそうな神社。説明書きによると、女性神職の誕生やおみくじの普及に関係しているらしい。

  • Shinkoji Temple
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    3.0
    4 Reviews
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    Yamaguchi Kumage-gun Tabusecho Shimotabuse 3487

    役場の向かいの高台にある立派なお寺。ただ、この地域の人たちに支えられた、この地域の人たちのためのお寺であって、観光地ではないので、その辺をわきまえないといけないと思った。

  • Sensoji Temple
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    Yamaguchi Shunan-shi Jogaoka 3-chome 18-22
  • Yamato Sports Center
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    Yamaguchi Hikari-shi Iwata 849
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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.

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