山口県 · Shrines & temples
Kasuga Jinja (Hagi)
萩市 北浦（萩）
One of the tutelary shrines of the Hagi castle town.
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山口県 · Shrines & temples
Tosenji
岩国市 東部
It stands on the bank of the Nishiki river.
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Shokoan
柳井市 東部
A legend of a willow and a well is the origin of the place name Yanai.
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Toishi Hachimangu
周南市 東部
Built as an auxiliary shrine of Usa Jingu.
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Omine Hachimangu
美祢市 中部
The tutelary shrine at the foot of the Akiyoshidai plateau.
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Akiyoshidai
美祢市 中部
The largest karst plateau in Japan. Limestone outcrops stand about like a flock of sheep.
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Akiyoshido
美祢市 中部
One of the largest limestone caves in Japan. The Golden Pillar rises deep inside.
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Hagi Jokamachi
萩市 北浦（萩）
The layout of the samurai quarter survives exactly as it was in the Edo period.
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Goshinkosai
防府市 中部
Also called the naked men's festival. Thousands carry the portable shrine.
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Kintaikyo
岩国市 東部
A wooden bridge of five arches, put together with almost no nails.
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Dannoura
下関市 西部
The site of the last battle between the Minamoto and the Taira. The currents of the Kanmon Strait decided it.
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Tsunoshima
下関市 西部
A bridge across an emerald sea. An island of lighthouses and fishing.
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Akiyoshido
美祢市 中部
One of the largest limestone caves in Japan, and the largest karst plateau.
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Tsunoshima Bridge
下関市 西部
One thousand seven hundred and eighty metres across an emerald sea. Made famous by television advertisements.
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Hagi
萩市 北浦（萩）
The layout of the samurai quarter survives as it was in the Edo period. It produced the men of the Restoration.
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Motonosumi
長門市 西部
One hundred and twenty-three torii run from the cliff down to the sea.
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Karato Market
下関市 西部
It handles more pufferfish than anywhere in Japan. At weekends sushi stalls line the hall.
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Yuda Onsen
山口市 中部
Said to have been found by a white fox. The birthplace of Nakahara Chuya.
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Nagato Yumoto
長門市 西部
Along the Otozure river. The whole town worked together to remake its townscape.
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Shimonoseki Fugu
下関市 西部
Here fugu is called fuku. Ito Hirobumi is said to have lifted the ban on eating it.
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Kozan Park
山口市 中部
One of the three finest pagodas of Japan, and the summit of Ouchi culture.
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Iwakuni White Snake
岩国市 東部
A rare case anywhere in the world of albino Japanese rat snakes establishing a population.
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Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
山口市 中部
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
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Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
山口市 中部
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
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