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Yamaguchi · Japan
In the destination Hagi and Akiyoshidai.
In the photo: Street of white walls in Hagi’s historic district.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Hagi is the former castle town of the Mori on the Sea of Japan coast in Yamaguchi. It features streets with white walls and samurai and merchant houses, the castle ruins in Shizuki Park, Yoshida Shoin’s Shokasonjuku and other UNESCO Meiji sites, as well as Hagi-yaki pottery kilns. Bicycles are the common way to get around.
There's no accommodation in the guide yet in Hagi.
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The local experience
Hagi’s old quarter, with white plaster and earthen walls, samurai and merchant houses, wooden gates and orange trees, preserved in its 17th-century layout and part of the UNESCO Meiji sites.
Stone walls, moat and the base of the Mori castle tower, in Shizuki Park at the foot of Mount Shizuki and on the Sea of Japan, with a tea house and cherry trees.
A small wooden school where Yoshida Shoin taught future Meiji leaders, on the grounds of Shoin Shrine in eastern Hagi; part of the UNESCO Meiji sites.
Beyond the guide
