8 Sights in Hagi, Japan (with Map and Images)

Hagi Castle is a Japanese castle located in the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. Built in 1604 at the beginning of the Edo period as the main castle of the Mōri clan, it served as the seat of the Chōshū Domain for over 250 years until 1863. It was demolished in 1874 shortly after the Meiji Restoration. Its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1924. Hagi Castle has been designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.

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Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Museum of Art and Urakami Memorial Museum is an art museum located in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The construction plan for this facility was promoted with the intention of placing prefectural cultural facilities in a well-balanced manner throughout the prefecture, and was promoted as an integral part of the construction of the Yamaguchi Prefectural International Center (Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki) in Shimonoseki City and the Sinfonia Iwakuni in Iwakuni City.

Wikipedia: 山口県立萩美術館・浦上記念館 (JA)

Higashihobenzan is a 734.2-meter-high mountain that straddles Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and is a representative mountain of the Nagato Mountains, part of the Chugoku Mountains. A troupe of 100 famous mountains in New Japan.

Wikipedia: 東鳳翩山 (JA)

Enseiji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Omuro sect located in Minami-Kohagi-cho (萩城下町), Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in the 6th year of its founding (1254) in the current Enseiji-cho, Yamaguchi City, and moved to its current location in the 3rd year of Meiji (1870). There is a shrine called Kinbira Shrine in the temple grounds.

Wikipedia: 円政寺 (JA)

Tōkō-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple located in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The temple is affiliated with the Ōbaku sect of Japanese Zen and its honzon is a statue of Shaka Nyorai. It is noted for hosting the tombs of several daimyōs of the Chōshū Domain and members of the Mōri clan.

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The Ebisugahana Shipyard was a shipyard opened in 1865 in Bakumatsu period Japan, located in the Chinto neighborhood of the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture in the San'yō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2013. In 2007, it was certified as a modern industrial heritage by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Furthermore, in 2015, it was listed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining.

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The Mishima Jiikonbo Kofun Cluster (見島ジーコンボ古墳群) is a group of burial mounds, located on the island of Mishima in the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi in the San'yō region of Japan. The grave cluster was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1958, with the area under protection expanded in 1984.

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The Hagi Reverberatory Furnace is the ruins of an Edo period reverberatory furnace erected by Chōshū Domain in what is now the Chintō neighborhood of the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi in the San'yō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1924. and was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.

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