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Meet the multi-arched Kintai-kyo bridge

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Top Attractions in Yamaguchi

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Yamaguchi Top 10

  1. Ganryujima
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    Ganryujima

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  2. Goldfish Lanterns in Yanai
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    Goldfish Lanterns in Yanai

    Culture
  3. Kintaikyo Fireworks Festival
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    Kintaikyo Fireworks Festival

    Culture
  4. Motonosumi Inari Shrine
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    Motonosumi Inari Shrine

    Culture
  5. The Five Arches of Kintai-kyo
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    The Five Arches of Kintai-kyo

    Activities
  6. Kikuya Family Residence, Yamaguchi
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    Kikuya Family Residence, Yamaguchi

    Hagi
  7. Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
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    Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art

    Culture
  8. Hagi Castle Ruins in Shizuki Park
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    Hagi Castle Ruins in Shizuki Park

    Hagi
  9. Akiyoshi Cave
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    Akiyoshi Cave

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  10. Kintaikyo Festival
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    Kintaikyo Festival

    Culture

Where to eat in Yamaguchi

Hotoritei Café
Food

Hotoritei Café

Sébastien Duval

Savour diverse food including a vegan lunch plate, vegetarian pancake, and local natsu-mikan orange drink in Hagi city! Enjoy a..

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Musashi Ice Cream Shop
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Musashi Ice Cream Shop

Amanda Ho

After crossing Kintai Bridge, in the front of Kikko Park, there are at least three ice cream shops. One had about twenty flavors,..

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Places to stay in Yamaguchi

Hotel Resort Mihagi
Western

Hotel Resort Mihagi

Mandy Bartok

Hotel Resort Mihagi puts you right in the heart of Hagi's action, while offering you the perfect place to unwind at the end..

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Hagi Komachi
Ryokan

Hagi Komachi

Mandy Bartok

Relax in your seaside room or in the ocean front onsen and enjoy delicious local seafood at Hagi Komachi in northern Yamaguchi..

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Latest Yamaguchi Reports

Shoka Sonjuku School 6
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Shoka Sonjuku School

Lily Taki

In Hagi in western Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, Shoka Sonjuku was a private school founded by Yoshida Shoin, a famous Edo-era..

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About Yamaguchi

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Chugoku
Island Honshu
Capital Yamaguchi
Population 1,451,338
Area 6112.30 sq. km

The westernmost prefecture of Honshu, Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken) played a vital role during the Meiji Restoration (known then as Choshu), overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate and establishing the new imperial government. As a result of its political influence, four of Japan’s first nine Prime Ministers were from Yamaguchi.

Shimonoseki serves as the western gateway to Japan’s main island from Kyushu, as the Kanmon Bridge, running between Shimonoseki and Moji, Fukuoka, connects the two islands. A marker for the site of the decisive Battle of Dannoura in 1185 can be found near it. Just off the coast is Ganryuu-jima, the site of the legendary duel between Japan’s greatest swordsmen, Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro. If you like Japanese history, Yamaguchi is the place for you.

Other places of note include Ruriko Temple and the Hagi Castle Town, while Tsunoshima-ohashi and Kintai-kyo are two of Japan’s most scenic bridges.

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