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Inside the Yanai tourist information office and local museum.37 views
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Directional signs in English.36 views
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First you see Muroya-no-Sono, a longhouse museum.36 views
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Street heading to JR Yanai Station.36 views
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Ceiling of Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse.36 views
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Entrance area of main building, serving as the business office.36 views
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Urinal36 views
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Old cameras36 views
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Combs36 views
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Samisen36 views
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Bento lunch boxes36 views
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For tea36 views
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Weaving36 views
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Former Suo Bank serving as tourist information office.36 views
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Scale model of Yanai's traditional townscape.36 views
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The second floor also has exhibits.36 views
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Hagi Castle has no castle buildings remaining, but the moats and stone walls are impressive. Short walk from the Hagi Castle bus stop or Hagi Museum.36 views
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Historical figures from Choshu (Yamaguchi).36 views
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River runs parallel to the white-walled townscape.35 views
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They did very well in preserving this traditional townscape. But I did see one house that was totally modern and didn't match the white-wall homes.35 views
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Small shrine outside.35 views
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Ceiling beams35 views
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Phonograph35 views
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Bento lunch boxes for rice.35 views
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Exhibits about a prominent local singer.35 views
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Inside the Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya).34 views
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Adjacent to Muroyano-sono is this distinctive building hat used to be Suo Bank built in 1907 and designed by Sato Setsuo. It is now the Tourist Information Office and local museum. 町並み資料館34 views
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Hagi is a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).33 views
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Leaving Shoin Shrine.32 views
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Inside Hagi Station.31 views
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Shoin Shrine is dedicated to Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859 吉田松陰), a native of Hagi who was a leading intellectual and educator during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.31 viewsThis is the first torii.
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Giant ema wooden prayer tablet with a picture of Yoshida Shoin (right) and student Yamagata Aritomo who became the father of Japanese militarism.30 views
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Shoin to be executed. (The museum does not show the decapitation.)30 views
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Entrance to Asa Mori Clan Residence.29 views
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QR code for more info in Japanese.29 views
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Shoka-sonjuku school lecture room.29 views
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Happy New Year 201829 views
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Shoin enters Sakuma Shozan school.29 views
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Bridge to Hagi Castle. National Historic Site.28 views
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Steps to go on Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.28 views
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Adjacent to Hagi Castle is this Asa Mori Clan Residence.28 views
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Asa Mori Clan Residence was a longhouse of rooms.28 views
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Grave of Mori Terumoto.28 views
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In front of Hagi Station is a statue of a young Inoue Masaru who was Japan's first Director of Railways or "father of the Japanese railways."28 viewsInoue Masaru was from Hagi and one of the Choshu Five who was smuggled out of Japan to study in the UK in 1863.
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Yoshida is also noted for trying to stowaway on Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship to go to America and study abroad in 1854. 28 viewsHe had an eventful but short life, executed at age 29. In Hagi, the Shoin Shrine is dedicated to him.
This short path to the shrine has various monuments.
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Pictures of the school's famous students.28 views
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Yoshida Shoin History Museum is also within the shrine grounds. 吉田松蔭歴史館28 views
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Yoshida Shoin's family when he was a child. (Sugi family)28 views
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Views from Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.27 views
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Views from Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.27 views
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About Asa Mori Clan Residence.27 views
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About Motofusa Nagai and his loyal cat.27 views
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Vestiges of the castle town remain here with white walls.27 views
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Mud wall of Toida Masuda residence.27 views
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Too bad this Hagi Station is not Hagi's main station. Very nice and vintage dating back to 1925. JR San'in Line.27 views
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Shoin Jinja Shrine torii.27 views
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Adjacent to Shoin Shrine is Shomon Shrine that worships the students of Yoshida Shoin. 松門神社27 views
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Wishes on a pine tree.27 views
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Shoin confined.27 views
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Shoin imprisoned.27 views
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Mori Terumoto (1553–1625) was on the losing side at the Battle of Sekigahara, so his holdings were severely reduced and he had to move from Hiroshima to less central Choshu wher he built Hagi Castle.26 views
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Terumoto's humiliation angered the Mori Clan and Choshu domain which eventually helped to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate in the 19th century.26 views
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About Tenjuin Mausoleum.26 views
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The graves of Mori Terumoto and his wife.26 views
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Scale model of Hagi Castle.26 views
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Higashi-Hagi Station.26 views
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Bus stop indicator in Hagi's Maaru bus is also in English.26 views
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Hagi Station turnstile.26 views
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Marker for the Shoka-sonjuku school as a historical site.26 views
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Yoshida's poem.26 views
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Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾26 views
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About Shomon Shrine. 松門神社26 views
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Yoshida Shoin's family tree.26 views
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Yoshida Shoin with his brother and father.26 views
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Teacher, Mori clan head.26 views
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Commodore Perry's troops.26 views
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About Hagi Castle.25 views
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Views from Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.25 views
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Scale model of Hagi Castle.25 views
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Hagi Youth Hostel designed like a castle.25 views
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Mud wall of Toida Masuda residence.25 views
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Bus stop at Higashi-Hagi Station. 25 views
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Model of Hagi Castle in front of Higashi-Hagi Station.25 views
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Hagi's Maaru bus is the main way to tour Hagi. It stops at all the major sights in Hagi. Just hop on and off. It runs twice an hour.25 views
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Hagi Station platform.25 views
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In 2018, Hagi is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration.25 views
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Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855 after being arrested for trying to stowaway on Perry's ship.25 views
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Filial piety bamboo.25 views
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Mori Shigetaka's tea room in his villa.25 views
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After moving from Hiroshima, Mori Terumoto built Hagi Castle in 1604, and his Mori Clan rules Choshu domain here for about 260 years.24 views
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Intertwining Pine Tree24 views
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Views from Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.24 views
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Nice traditional townscape in Hagi, Yamaguchi.24 views
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Even modern homes have white walls.24 views
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Old map of Hagi.24 views
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Hagi Station phone booth.24 views
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Hagi Station phone booth.24 views
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Yoshida Shoin's living quarters.24 views
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Yoshida Shoin was confined here in 1855.24 views
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Shoin Jinja Shrine dedicated to Yoshida Shoin. 松陰神社24 views
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Inside Shoin Shrine 24 views
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Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship.24 views
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Hagi-yaki pottery shop.23 views
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Hagi Castle, including the main tenshu tower, was at the foot of this mountain, Mt. Shizuki. It wasn't on top of the mountain. Flatland type. 指月山23 views
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There's even a bench on Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.23 views
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Front gate of Mori Clan's detached residence.23 views
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This road goes to Hagi Museum. 23 views
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Old soda bottles like Fanta.23 views
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Old tape recorder.23 views
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About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.23 views
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About the the Shoka-sonjuku school.23 views
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Shoka-sonjuku school. 松下村塾23 views
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The school building is the original from Yoshida's days.23 views
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Exiting the shrine's torii.23 views
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Shoin listening to a lecture at the school that hr would later take over.23 views
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Yoshida Shoin studying.23 views
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About the Ansei Purge.23 views
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Entering Hagi Castle grounds.22 views
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The stone base for Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower.22 views
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Maaru bus stop at Hagi Castle.22 views
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Tenjuin Mausoleum entrance. The graves of Mori Terumoto and his wife. There used to be a temple here, but only the graves remain.22 views
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Grave of retainer Motofusa Nagai and his loyal cat.22 views
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Mori Terumoto headed the Mori Clan who ruled the Choshu domain.22 views
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Inside Higashi-Hagi Station. Pretty quiet place. Less than 300 people per day get on the train here.22 views
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About Hagi Station.22 views
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Portrait of Yoshida Shoin in Shoka-sonjuku school. He taught at the school for only a year. 松下村塾22 views
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Amulet shop22 views
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Monument indicating this place as where the Meiji Restoration started.22 views
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Yoshida Shoin riding on a boat to Commodore Perry's USS Powhatan flagship to try and stowaway to America.22 views
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Atop Hagi Castle's main tenshu tower foundation.21 views
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