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Noyama Prison Ruins & Iwakura Prison Ruins

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi

These Municipal Historic Sites are about a 10-minute walk from Higashi-Hagi Station. In 1645, an incident occurred in which the upper-class retainer samurai Iwakura Magobe was drunk and broke into the residence of fellow retainer Noyama Rokuemon and killed his family. Iwakura was sentenced to decapitation, and both clans were broken up and their lands confiscated. The domain later used both houses as prisons, and since the primary guilt lay on Iwakura, the Noyama house was used as a prison for upper class samurai, while Iwakura's was a prison for commoners. Noyama Prison hosted many patriots imprisoned, such as Yoshida Shoin after his failed plot to stowaway to escape abroad, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Katori Motohiko. Iwakura Prison once held Kaneko Shigenosuke, a former attendant of Yoshida Shoin. These ruins offer a glimpse into the turmoil that swept the Hagi domain during the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Choshuya Mitsukuni Seika Hompo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Furuhagimachi 25-26

This venerable Japanese confectionery was founded at the end of the Edo period. They have long been the home of treats made from Hagi's local specialty, natsumikan summer citrus fruits. Natsumikan Maruzuke is a traditional, hand-made Hagi treat made from a whole candied natsumikan summer citrus with the insides scooped out, then filled with melted yokan bean jelly. Each one is carefully made according to the traditional method. The syrup used to candy the peel has been used and replenished constantly from 1916 for a truly legendary flavor. It's perfect not only with tea, but western spirits as well. They also offer popular treats like Hagi no Kaori candied shredded natsumikan peel, or Natsumikan Marmalade made with zero artificial flavors.
Waraji

4.0

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Gofukumachi 1-4

This restaurant is near Kikuya Yokocho, the old castle town of Hagi. The shop is outfitted with raised tatami floor seats and counter seating, and offers cuisine made with local ingredients. The Unidon Teishoku meal set features a rice bowl topped with loads of fresh Hagi-caught sea urchin with sides of local seasonal vegetable dishes, and is popular for its hefty volume. Their Sansai no Kamameshi Teishoku meal set features local rice cooked in clean spring water with sea urchin, turban snails, chicken, and mountain herbs. The udon is light and refreshing, finished with slices of local natsumikan summer citrus, making it perfect for a quick bite during your castle town stroll. With advance reservations you can also try home-style dishes like Itokoni (chilled clear soup containing shiratama-dango sticky rice flour dumplings and azuki beans), and Noppe Jiru country stew made with vegetables and chicken.

地元食材の豚カツ定食を注文しましたが、肉の厚さ、ご飯の量がお上品な方向きで足りなかったです。女性や高齢の方にはちょうどいいのかも。食欲旺盛な方には不十分です。もう少し肉の厚みがあるとうれしい限り。観光客相手のお店だからボリュームは期待してはいけないのかも。
Mt. Fusumayama Nemu-no-oka Campground

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Takasa Gebuse Uma

This campground is on Mt. Fusuma, in the heart of the Mutsumi area. Located at the peak 499 meters above sea level, the campground has 10 bungalows, and around five tent spaces. There's a communal kitchen, a rest space, a large playground equipment and a community area, making this a popular place to come and enjoy some outdoor fun. Five of the ten bungalows have electric outlets, but there are no showers or air conditioning. There are no rentals offered, either, so if you plan to spend the night make sure you bring your own sleeping gear.
Kikugahama Dorui (Onago Daiba)

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Imauonotanamachi

This Municipal Historic Site includes about 50 meters of earthen defense work, standing three meters high and 12 meters wide. In 1863, the Sonno-Joi movement of reverence for the Emperor was spreading throughout the Choshu domain, and ships from Western countries were attacked by cannons from Shimonoseki as they passed through the Kanmon strait. The people of Hagi felt this meant there was need to defend the castle town on their own, and the rulers ordered earthwork defenses built along the Sea of Japan at Kikugahama beach. The young and old people left in the town went to work regardless of their status, wealth or age, and the particularly great efforts of the samurai wives and ladies-in-waiting in building the earthworks earned it the nickname Onago Daiba (Ladies' Fort).
Kumaya Museum of Art

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Imauonotanamachi 47

This art museum is inside a renovated earthen-walled warehouse style home once owned by the Kumaya family, who prospered as royal purveyors for the Hagi domain. Said to have been built in 1768, four structures comprising the main hall, a separate room, the main warehouse, and the treasury, are all nationally designated Important Cultural Properties. There are about 3,000 works of art on display from the collection gathered by the Kumaya family head, and among them is a piano donated by famed German doctor Siebold, who was friends with the fourth generation family head Goemon Yoshikazu. The British-made piano is the oldest remaining in Japan.
Kisetsu Ryori Isuzu

3.0

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Imafuruhagimachi 8

This restaurant is known for its hearty fisherman's cuisine and the cheerful shop mistress. The interior has a surprisingly home-like, familiar atmosphere, which is perfect for enjoying their locally sourced seafood dishes. Their most popular dish is the Unidon Teishoku, featuring a whole box of raw sea urchin over rice. It's an extravagant meal set, with a sashimi platter of treats like yellowtail amberjack, squid, octopus, and more, and small side dishes and miso soup. Other delights you'll want to eat every day include the Amadai no Misoyaki Teishoku meal set with miso-roasted tilefish, or the old stand-by Sashimi Teishoku meal set. There are plenty of regulars and tourists who come by just to enjoy a talk with the mistress, as well!

お昼のランチで利用しました。他の方の口コミにある通り、メニューにお値段の表示がなくて不安なまま2人で雲丹丼と海鮮丼を注文しました。雲丹丼3600円、海鮮丼2600円ぐらいだったかな？単純にコスパを求める人には向かないと思いますが、女将さんと萩の町のことやら海産物の薀蓄やらを聞きながらというのは悪くなかったです。
Choun-gama Kiln

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Yamada 4431

This nature-embraced Hagi-yaki pottery kiln is about a five-minute drive from Hagi Station. The works of master Hagi-yaki potter Notomi Susumu bring to mind the sea and the sky, with a deep blue that expressing the nature of the clay and the variations in glazing. Hagi-yaki pottery often uses lighter colors like white, or something called Biwa-iro (loquat color), but Notomi focuses on this deep blue color in his works. The kiln offers direct sales of teacups and mugs, in addition to their production work.
Hagi City Susa Museum of History and Folklore: Mikotokan

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Susa Nakatsu 4441-10

This museum collects and preserves materials related to the cultural heritage, history, and folklore of Susa. In the Edo period, the Masuda family served as important officials (eidai-garo) in the Mori domain, and this museum displays important items connected to them, as well as to Susa-Karatsu pottery and the Susa geopark. The name Mikoto Kan comes from the legend of the god Susanoo-no-Mikoto, whence Susa gets its name. The hall was closed for a time after the terrible floods that hit the Hagi City's eastern area in 2013, but the main hall and annex were reopened in 2015. The hall not only offers a place to learn of the charms of the Susa region, but also displays seiji celadon porcelain, what is considered the oldest celadon porcelain in Japan.
Zenpukuji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Kawashima 197

This Rinzai school temple is said to date back to the Eikyo era (1429-1440). It originally stood at the base of Mt. Shizuki on the north shore, but it was moved here when Mori Terumoto began constructing Hagi castle. The temple grounds offer a close taste of Hagi history. They hold a Christian toro lantern engraved with the Virgin Mary, as well as the graves of Fujimura Taro and his brother Jiro, who were the members of Kiheitai (irregular regiment) and killed in battle, and the grave of Narazaki Yahachiro, who was killed at Noyama prison in the Bakumatsu period.
Birthplace of Yamagata Arima

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Kawashima 313-1

This is the birthplace of Yamagata Aritomo, an important figure from Hagi in the Meiji Restoration and eventual prime minister of Japan. He was educated at the Shokasonjuku Academy under Yoshida Shoin, and later served an active role in the Choshu domain. After the restoration, he served a central role in the Meiji government as one of the Choro, elder statesmen from the Choshu domain, until his death in 1922. A three meter high monument stands on the bank of the Hashimoto river in the spot where he was born in 1838.
Old Yukawa Family Manor

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Kawashima 67

This old samurai residence is found upstream along the Aiba Waterway (Aibagawa). The main hall, found across the bridge, stands out particular for the design around its tearoom. The house uses water diverted from the river which, after passing through the water garden with a pond in the center, is drawn into the kitchen for domestic use, after which it is drained back into the river, in a construction system known as hatoba. An old map from the Edo period records this as Toiban (flood gate keeper), so historians believe this residence was home to the water manager for the Aiba Waterway.
Old Katsura Taro Residence

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Kawashima 73-2

This is the former residence of Katsura Taro, who served as Japan's prime minister three times after the Meiji Restoration, and founded Takushoku University. Born the eldest son of Hagi domain samurai Katsura Yoichi-uemon in the Hiyako area of the castle town, he moved here when he was three years old. The current residence was built new in 1909, the restrained main house is a tasteful building suitable for quiet enjoyment of the Aiba Waterway. The flowing-style water garden uses water diverted from the river, and holds a bronze statue of Prime Minister Taro, which you can inspect while you enjoy the sounds of the courtyard open corridor's suikinkutsu, a special water feature that makes sound in a buried earthen jar.
Hagi Okan Bairin-en Garden

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Tsubaki 1125

This plum garden spreads along the old Hagi Okan road, which saw over many of the great figures, patriotic samurais of the Restoration. The garden spreads over about 9,600 square meters, and has about 350 trees of 13 varieties. It was opened in 1992 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Yoshida Shoin's birth. The scarlet-plum type double-blossomed Hi no Tsukasa is the earliest bloomer, and after it comes the single-bloom Bungo Japanese plum, weeping plum Gyokko Shidare, and others to bring the trees to brilliant color. Most years, the peak season is from late February through mid-March. The Hagi Okan Plum Garden festival coincides with full-bloom.
Ryokuei-gama Kiln

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Tsubaki 2153-4

This Hagi-yaki pottery kiln boasts of yearly sales totaling 30,000 pieces. Located near the end of the Hagi Tollway, they have been making various pieces like tea bowls and daily goods for ages. Their direct-managed gallery space makes use of soft natural light and open spaces to show off their work, which includes pottery walls, objets d'arte, monuments, trophies, and other pieces overflowing with ingenuity and creativity. The workshop offers pottery activities allowing you to make your own original Hagi-yaki pottery. You can try your hand with electric pottery wheels, hand- making, and hand-turned wheels.
Hagi Exhibition Hall of Nature and History

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Tsubaki 3537-3 JR Hagi Station Building

"This gallery inside the JR Hagi Station building is lit with gentle natural lighting through a half-dome window. It offers an introduction to the beautiful nature and history of Hagi. The station, which at its building was called a ""masterpiece of western-style stations,"" was designated a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1996. The telephone booth in front of the gallery is a reproduction of the second generation of Japan's telephone booths, in use from the end of the Taisho period (1912-1926) through the early Showa period (1926-1989). It is said to be the only one still surviving in Japan."
Toukazan

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Tsubaki Oki Hara 414-19

This kiln has developed its own new methods using the special characteristics of Arita ware, which the owner has loved since childhood, while still preserving the unique qualities of traditional Hagi ware. The current production focuses on decorated ceramic pieces. They are characterized by originality and uniqueness that cannot be confined to the standard classification, while blending in naturally into daily life. The pieces use Hagi-yaki pottery earth, while succeeding in intricate finishes with fine-grained clay suitable for dinnerware. You can try shaping at the potter's wheel or painting patterns yourself with advance reservations.
Kasayama Camellia Grove

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Chinto Koshigahama

Toragasaki cape is at the north end of Mt. Kasa. The roughly ten hectares of land are home to about 25,000 camellia trees, which burst into brilliant bloom from early December through late March, making the season relatively long. The peak season is from mid-February through late March, and the Hagi Camellia Festival is held every year during this time.. The park has walking trails and an observatory deck, offering views of the camellia woods and the Sea of Japan from 13 meters in the air.
Itsukushima-jinja Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Chinto

This ancient shrine is said to date from 1686. It stands in the middle of Myojin pond, which spreads from the eastern foot of Mt. Kasa, and is a branch of Miyajima Itsukushima-jinja Shrine. This shrine began when the second lord of the Hagi domain, Mori Tsunahiro, transferred the tutelary deity of Itsukushima-Myojin in Aki, which had been worshipped by his ancestor Mori Motonari. The nickname of Myojin-sama and Myojin pond are also said to come from the deity enshrined at Itsukushima. The pond's water level rises and falls with the tides of the open sea, and fishes dedicated by local fishermen in prayer for safe fishing and big catches are breeding there. You can see a variety of sea fish swimming in the pond, such as red sea bream, striped beakfish, mullet, rays, and more.
Birthplace of Yoshida Shoin

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Chinto 1433-1

This is the birthplace of Yoshida Shoin, leader of the Shokason-juku Academy, which is famous for having produced many of the figures who would go on to shape the Meiji Restoration. The picturesque hill, called Dangoiwa (dumpling boulder), offers a view over all of Hagi city. None of the original buildings remain on the premises, but there are foundation stones indicating the layout of the mansion that was set up in Taisho period, offering a hint at the life Shoin led until he was around 19 years old. There are bronze statues of Yoshida Shoin and Kaneko Shigenosuke near the birthplace, and a stone monument by a Shokason-juku Academy student Yamagata Aritomo.

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Yamaguchi Areas

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.