7 Sights in Iwakuni, Japan (with Map and Images)

Bafungatake is a mountain located on the border between Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Nishiki Town, Iwakuni City. The altitude is 985.2 m. The original name was Mt. Secret Tail. Because the mountain resembles horse manure, it came to be called Horse Manuregatake.

Wikipedia: 馬糞ヶ岳 (JA)

Jokunji Temple is a temple of the Nanzenji sect of the Rinzai sect located in Hongo-cho, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Utsuka. The main Buddha is Jizo Bodhisattva and Thousand-Handed Kannon Bodhisattva, both of which were destroyed by fire in the early Showa period. The main hall has also disappeared, and a temporary main hall is now standing.

Wikipedia: 成君寺 (JA)

Mt. Kogoro is a 1,161.7-meter-high mountain located in Usago, Nishiki-cho, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. This mountain, which belongs to the Kwanshan Mountains in the western part of the Chugoku Mountains, is known as the male of the West China Mountains and is designated as one of the 100 Famous Mountains in China.

Wikipedia: 小五郎山 (JA)

Kikkawa Historical Museum is a private museum of artefacts handed down by the Kikkawa clan, daimyō of Iwakuni Domain, in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located between Kintai-kyō bridge and Iwakuni Castle and opened by the Kikkawa Hōkōkai Society (吉川報效会) in 1995, the museum's collection totals some seven thousand items, including materials from the Heian and Kamakura periods, a painting attributed to Sesshū, and one National Treasure. There are four changing displays each year. Other materials once owned by the Kikkawa clan are on display at Iwakuni Chōkokan.

Wikipedia: Kikkawa Historical Museum (EN), Website

Iwakuni Chōkokan (岩国徴古館) is a public museum in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Constructed between 1942 and March 1945 for the storage and display of the works of art and craft and historical materials donated by the Kikkawa family, former lords of Iwakuni Domain, the facility first opened in April 1944, operating fully as a museum from the beginning of the 1950s. The main building, by architect Satō Takeo , as well as storehouses built in 1891 and 1944, are registered Tangible Cultural Properties, while the ancillary building that was constructed in 1931 as the Kikkawa family office is a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property.

Wikipedia: Iwakuni Chōkokan (EN), Website

Iwakuni School Education Museum is a museum located at 3-1-8 Iwakuni, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. In 1870 (Meiji 3), the educational museum was opened in 1972 (Showa 47) using the building completed as Iwakuni School. The building is a designated cultural property of Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 岩国学校教育資料館 (JA)

The Kashiwabara Museum of Art is a museum focusing on antiquities and ceramics located in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. In 1963, the Iwakuni Museum of History was the predecessor, and in 2004 the Iwakuni Museum of Art was renamed the Kashiwabara Museum of Art on October 1, 2020. It is also known as the Kashiwabara Collection. The museum has a collection of approximately 6,000 items, including 18 important cultural properties and prefectural and municipal designated cultural properties. It is located in front of Iwakuni Castle Ropeway at the foot of the mountain.

Wikipedia: 岩国美術館 (JA), Website