Best Tourist Spots In Yamaguchi
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Tsunoshima Bridge goes over the blue sea as beautiful as the sea in Okinawa. The scenery is perfectly amazing.
Name
Tsunoshima Ohashi Bridge
Address
Oji Kanda Houhoku-cho, Shimonoseki-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min by bus from JR Kottoi Station. By car, 90 min from Yamaguchi city, 180 min from Hiroshima city, 140 min from Fukuoka city. Parking area is available at Amagase Park nearby.
Parking
Parking area is available
Here's selected as one of the 31 most beautiful places in Japan by CNN in the United States. The impressing scenery spreading in front of my eyes.
Name
Motonosumi Inari Shrine
Address
498 Yuyatsuou, Nagato-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
15 min by car, from JR Nagatofuruichi Station
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Kintai-kyo Bridge, one of the three greatest bridges in Japan, has the wonderful five arches! You can see the elaborately combined woods very close on the reverse, which makes you moved by its beautiful figure and high skills. And you can see the Iwakuni Castle on the far mountain top, and feel the history and atmosphere of a castle town.◎Entrance fee: Kintai-kyo Round Ticket 300yen, Kintai-kyo, Ropeway, Iwaguni Castle 940yen
Name
Kintaikyo Bridge
Address
1 Iwakuni, Iwakuni-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
Tel
0827-29-5107
Hours
8：00-17：00
How to get there
Name
Akiyoshidai (Karst Plateau)
Address
Syuho-cho, Mine-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
45 min by bus from JR Shin Yamaguchi Station to Akiyoshi-dou Cave, then walk 30 min. By car, 40 min from Yamaguchi city, 120 min from Hiroshima city, or 120 min from Fukuoka city.
Parking
Free parking area is available
I went there in midwinter though, the inside of the cave was so warm that I walked without jacket. The cave was very spacious and I could enjoy looking around enough.
Name
Akiyoshi Limestone Cave
Address
Hirotani Akiyoshi Shuho-cho, Mine-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
Tel
0837-62-0018
Hours
8:30-17:30
How to get there
By car, 5 min from Akiyoshidai IC, or 30 min from Shin Yamaguchi Station. By bus, 45 min from Shin Yamaguchi Station to Akiyoshi-do.
Ruriko-ji Temple is in Yamaguchi City, and the five-storied pagoda is its symbol. This is counted among the three most beautiful pagodas in Japan, and thought highly as a national treasure.
Name
Ruriko-ji Temple
Address
7-1 Kozan-cho, Yamaguchi-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
Tel
083-922-2409
How to get there
Mine City in Yamaguchi is rich in water resources. Among these, Beppu Benten-ike Pond is elected as Japan's 100 remarkable waters. It's popular also as a tourist attraction because of its high degree of transparency and beautiful scene.
Name
Beppu Benten-ike Pond
Address
Beppu Mizukami Shuho-cho, Mine-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
45 min by car from Yamaguchi city
Iwakuni-jo Castle, one of the 100 best castles in Japan, stands on a 200-meter mountain and has Nishiki River, which Kintai-kyo Bridge across, as a natural outer moat. The view from the castle tower is really great and unique for a mountain castle. Kintai-kyo Bridge, a castle town, and in the distance, Miyajima, islands of Seto Inland Sea and Shikoku, you can overlook from here.
The beautiful blue of the sea and the sky makes me exclaim something instinctively. There're Motonosumi Inari Shrine famous for numerous torii arches, and fashionable cafes near here, so I wanted to stay here more.
Name
Yamaguchi Senjojiki
Address
1138-1 Hekinaka, Nagato-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
By taxi or car 10 min from JR Nagatofuruichi Station, 80 min from Yamaguchi city. Free parking area is available.
Higashiushirobata ride field is selected as one of the 100 most beautiful terraced rice fields in Japan. I like to see it specially at dusk in May or June. Many photographers get together to take pictures of the setting sun reflected on the whole paddy fields. After the sun set, you can also see the glittering fire on boats to lure fish.
Name
Higashiushirobata Terraced Rice Fields
Address
Hhigashiushirobata Yuya, Nagato-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by taxi from Nagato Furuichi Station. 80 min by car from Yamaguchi city. Free parking area is available.
When I walked around Tokuyama Station, there were such a beautiful factory night view. You can find more beautiful spot.
Name
Shunan Factory
Address
Shunan Factory, Shunan-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
Around JR Tokuyama Station or JR Fukugawa Station
Beppu-itsukushima Shrine is a small shrine located at the center of great nature of Yamaguchi. There're many huge trees in the precinct and some of them designated as a city natural monument. In late autumn, the ginkgo leaves dye it yellow and make a wonderful scenery.
Name
Beppu-itsukushima Shrine
Address
1577 Beppu Shuho-cho, Mine-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
It's a place where the final enemy appears, isn't it? You can find this torii arch when you walk around the lighthouse.
Name
Yumesakinami Park
Address
Tsunoshima Houhoku-cho, Shimonoseki-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
45 min bu bus from JR Takibe Station to Todai Koen (Lighthouse Park), then 5 min walk. 90 min by car from Yamaguchi city. Parking area is available.
Hagi Castle, one of the elements of a world heritage: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution, has harvest of summer orange from the mid April to June. You can enjoy walking around Kikuya Yokocho Street and Horiuchi Area in the fragrance of summer orange.◎The address I posted is Kikuya Yokocho Street in the first pic though, you can enjoy walking and shopping at old town in larger area. The second and third pics are Horiuchi Area. As for access, you can use the bus following a circular route from JR Hagi Station. By your own car, the parking area is available.
Name
Hagi Castle Town
Address
22 Minami Furu Hagi-machi, Hagi-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from JR Higashi Hagi Station. 20 min by car from Edou IC.
A superb view point where you can see the Kanmon Strait immediately after climbing the slope from the parking lot. The view from the mountaintop parking lot is already superb. A night view of 10 million dollars registered as a Japanese night view heritage. Cherry blossoms, azaleas and tulips bloom beautifully in spring. There are playsets. Ideal for historical exploration.
Name
Hinoyama Park
Address
Mimosusogawa-cho, Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi, JapanGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min by car, from Hatabu Station
Parking
Parking area is available
You can hear the strong steam whistle and running-sounds at close range. In addition, it's nice shooting spot you cam take pictures of the red bridge and a steam locomotive together from their bottom.◎Nearby parking area is available.
Name
Chomonkyo Gorge
Address
Midoubara Atouikumo Higashibun, Yamaguchi-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min walk from JR Chomonkyo Station. By car, 25 min from Yamaguchi city. Parking area is available.
There're flowers spreading as far as the eye can see. We can see various flowers in each season, and cosmos are ready for autumn. I want to visit again in other season.
Name
The Sea Of Flowers (Hana-no Umi)
Address
3392 Habu, Sanyoonoda-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
7 min by car or taxi from Habu Station.
Seto Inland Sea and Japan Sea marge here, the tide is so fast that the cruise was like a roller coaster. It is only 10 minutes cruise but the scenery of Kanmon Bridge and the port town are nice.
Name
Shimonoseki Karato Terminal
Address
1-1 Arukapoto, Shimonoseki-shi, YamaguchiGoogle Map
How to get there
