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山口県 · Regional selections

Ichinomata Onsen

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A hot spring at Toyota in Shimonoseki, known for its slippery water — a quiet cure resort among the hills.

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Hotaru Kaido Nishinoichi Roadside Station

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A roadside station at Toyota in Shimonoseki, with a hot spring, in country known for its fireflies.

山口県 · Regional selections

Joei-ji Sesshu-tei

山口県山口・防府

A temple garden in Yamaguchi City, said to have been made for Masahiro Ouchi by the painter Sesshu some 500 years ago.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ohira-yama Sancho Park

山口県山口・防府

A park on the 631.3-metre summit of Hofu's highest peak, looking over the Inland Sea and the Hofu plain.

山口県 · Regional selections

Yamaguchi Kirara Expo Memorial Park

山口県山口・防府

A sports park on the site of the 2001 exposition, with the prefecture's first artificial-turf stadium.

山口県 · Regional selections

Hagi-yaki Taiken

山口県萩・長門

Make your own Hagi ware, a pottery of 400 years, whose colour changes with use as the clay is left to show.

山口県 · Regional selections

Mine-shi Yosonjo Tsuribori

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A fishing pond in Mine, beside the Befu Benten pond of Japan's hundred fine waters, stocked with rainbow trout.

山口県 · Regional selections

Kitsune-no-Ashiato

山口県山口・防府

An information centre at Yuda Onsen, gathering news of where to eat and what to see nearby.

山口県 · Regional selections

Abu-cho Roadside Station

山口県萩・長門

A roadside station in Abu, the first to be certified and held to be where the roadside station began.

山口県 · Regional selections

瑠璃光寺

山口県山口・防府

A temple founded in 1471, with the national-treasure five-storey pagoda in its grounds.

山口県 · Regional selections

Doigahama Beach (Kaisuiyokujo / Campsite)

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A shore at Hohoku in Shimonoseki, about a kilometre of white sand, chosen among Japan's hundred finest beaches.

山口県 · Regional selections

Tuk-Tuk Rental

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

Three-wheeled vehicles for hire to drive Akiyoshidai, booked at the Akiyoshidai visitor centre.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ryufukuji Temple

山口県山口・防府

A temple in Yamaguchi City, where in autumn the maples on both sides of the approach turn it into a crimson tunnel.

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Kintaikyo Bridge Guided Tour with a Bridge Keeper

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

Walk the Kintaikyo bridge with the craftsmen who maintain it — five wooden arches rebuilt again and again for over 350 years.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ovision Kaikyo Yume Tower

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A 153-metre tower in Shimonoseki, its observation room at 143 metres glazed all round.

山口県 · Regional selections

Unrinji Temple (Neko-dera)

山口県萩・長門

A temple in Hagi, known for its thousand Jizo figures and called the cat temple for the many cat carvings in its grounds.

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Tonomachi-dori and Honmachi-dori

山口県山口・防府

Streets that keep the feel of the Edo period. They lie in Tsuwano, Shimane, though listed under Yamaguchi in the source.

山口県 · Regional selections

San-in Line Sightseeing Train Marumaru-no-Hanashi

山口県

A sightseeing train linking Hagi, Nagato and Shimonoseki, running along the Sea of Japan coast.

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Otsushima

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

An island off Shunan, partly within Setonaikai National Park, where a training base for manned torpedoes stood late in the war.

山口県 · Regional selections

Fugu Capsule Toys and Vending Machines

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A vending machine for pufferfish set up in Shimonoseki, selling processed goods on the spot.

山口県 · Regional selections

Nagato Province Ichinomiya Sumiyoshi Shrine

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The first shrine of Nagato province, counted with the Sumiyoshi shrines of Osaka and Hakata among Japan's three great Sumiyoshi.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ojo Onsen Shiosai-no-Yu

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

A hot spring on Kasadoshima in Kudamatsu, with Kasado Bay from the indoor and open-air baths.

山口県 · Regional selections

Tsunoshima Ohama Campground

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A campsite at Tsunoshima Ohama beach, with bungalows and tent pitches.

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Yuno Onsen

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

A hot-spring district on the upper Yoichi River in Shunan, where fireflies can be seen along the path in early June.