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山口県 · Regional selections

錦帯橋

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

One of Japan's three great bridges. Built in 1673, a wooden bridge of five arches, 193.3 metres long and five wide.

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Beppu Benten-ike

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A pond in the grounds of Befu Itsukushima Shrine, one of Japan's hundred fine waters.

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Kanmon Tunnel

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A 780-metre undersea tunnel joining Shimonoseki with Kitakyushu, with the road above and a walkway below that you can cross on foot.

山口県 · Regional selections

秋吉台

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

Among the largest karst plateaus in Japan, white limestone scattered over grassland. One of Japan's three great karst areas.

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Ganryujima

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

An island 1.6 kilometres around in the Kanmon Strait, where Musashi Miyamoto fought Kojiro Sasaki. Its formal name is Funashima.

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Hinoyama Park

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A hill above the Kanmon Strait, with a pulse gondola, a viewing deck and a campsite.

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Dan-no-Ura Kosenjo-ato (Mimosusogawa Park)

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The site of the 1185 battle of Dannoura, at Hayatomo-no-Seto, the narrowest and fiercest part of the Kanmon Strait.

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長門湯本温泉

山口県萩・長門

The oldest hot spring in the prefecture, said to date from the Muromachi period. The riverside streets were remade in 2020.

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Pear Picking in Toyota-cho

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A pear orchard at Toyota in Shimonoseki, with picking from late August to late September.

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Mikawa Mu Valley Underground Kingdom

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

An adventure park in a former mine, its old tunnels made into a caving route, with gold panning too.

山口県 · Regional selections

Oshima Island

山口県萩・長門

The signature scenic site of Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park, a run of strange rocks and sea arches called the Alps of the sea.

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萩城下町

山口県萩・長門

A castle town of white-walled samurai houses and earthen walls, with summer oranges over the walls and the angled lanes called kagimagari.

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赤間神宮

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A shrine to Emperor Antoku, who drowned at Dannoura, with a vermilion water gate modelled on the palace of the sea dragon.

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Special Viewing of Rurikoji Temple Five-Story Pagoda

山口県山口・防府

The national-treasure pagoda raised in 1442 in memory of Yoshihiro Ouchi. Only during the special viewing may you stand on its veranda.

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Susa Hornfels

山口県萩・長門

A shore in Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park. About 15 million years ago magma entered sand and mud strata, and its heat made the banded rock.

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防府天満宮

山口県山口・防府

Of the roughly 12,000 shrines to Sugawara no Michizane in Japan, this is held to be the first built.

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Shimonoseki City Shimonoseki Aquarium "Kaikyokan"

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The aquarium of Shimonoseki, with a display of pufferfish and a great tank recreating the currents of the Kanmon Strait.

山口県 · Regional selections

Akiyoshido Mikokai Area Cave-in

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A caving trip into the closed sections of Akiyoshido, going by hand-held light where there is neither lighting nor footing.

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Kanmon Bridge

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A 1,068-metre suspension bridge joining Honshu with Kyushu. When it opened in 1973 it was the longest in the East.

山口県 · Regional selections

Shuho Pear Farm Shop

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A shop for the pears grown at the foot of Akiyoshidai, selling only fruit that meets the sugar standard.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ryugu-no-Shiobuki

山口県萩・長門

A shore at Yuya in Nagato. Waves enter a hole below the cliff and the compressed seawater blows high into the air.

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Kiwa La Beach

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A swimming beach at Hohoku in Shimonoseki, shallow and open through the summer.

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Jokamachi Chofu

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The castle town at Chofu in Shimonoseki, with Furue-Shoji lane running between Edo-period earthen walls and stone.

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Akiyoshidai Safari Land

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The only safari park in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions, driven through in your own car.