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Tsunoshima Bridge
The bridge out to Tsunoshima, crossing white sand and cobalt-blue water. There is no toll.
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Motonosumi Shrine
Red torii standing in a line toward the Sea of Japan. On some days worship is suspended, so check before going.
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Akiyoshido Cave
A hundred metres below Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park. A special natural monument, 17 degrees inside all year, with over ten kilometres of passages.
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Karato Market
The market of Shimonoseki, known for pufferfish. Stall events are held at weekends and on holidays.
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Tsunoshima
The island across the Tsunoshima bridge, with fishing, swimming and camping.
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Ruriko-ji Five-Story Pagoda (Kozan Park)
A national treasure raised in 1442 in memory of Yoshihiro Ouchi, one of Japan's three finest pagodas. Its cypress-bark roof has just been renewed for the first time in about 70 years.
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Yuda Onsen
Also called the white fox bath, from a legend of a wounded fox that healed here. The flow is generous and footbaths are many in the town.
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Kintaikyo Bridge
One of Japan's three great bridges. Built in 1673, a wooden bridge of five arches, 193.3 metres long and five wide.
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Beppu Benten-ike
A pond in the grounds of Befu Itsukushima Shrine, one of Japan's hundred fine waters.
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Kanmon Tunnel
A 780-metre undersea tunnel joining Shimonoseki with Kitakyushu, with the road above and a walkway below that you can cross on foot.
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Akiyoshidai Plateau
Among the largest karst plateaus in Japan, white limestone scattered over grassland. One of Japan's three great karst areas.
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Ganryujima
An island 1.6 kilometres around in the Kanmon Strait, where Musashi Miyamoto fought Kojiro Sasaki. Its formal name is Funashima.
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Hinoyama Park
A hill above the Kanmon Strait, with a viewing deck and a campsite; the pulse gondola is under maintenance.
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Dan-no-Ura Kosenjo-ato (Mimosusogawa Park)
The site of the 1185 battle of Dannoura, at Hayatomo-no-Seto, the narrowest and fiercest part of the Kanmon Strait.
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Nagato Yumoto Onsen
The oldest hot spring in the prefecture, said to date from the Muromachi period. The riverside streets were remade in 2020.
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Pear Picking in Toyota-cho
A pear orchard at Toyota in Shimonoseki, with picking from late August to late September.
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Mikawa Mu Valley Underground Kingdom
An adventure park in a former mine, its old tunnels made into a caving route, with gold panning too.
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Oshima Island
The signature scenic site of Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park, a run of strange rocks and sea arches called the Alps of the sea.
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Hagi Castle Town
A castle town of white-walled samurai houses and earthen walls, with summer oranges over the walls and the angled lanes called kagimagari.
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Akama Jingu Shrine
A shrine to Emperor Antoku, who drowned at Dannoura, with a vermilion water gate modelled on the palace of the sea dragon.
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Special Viewing of Rurikoji Temple Five-Story Pagoda
The national-treasure pagoda raised in 1442 in memory of Yoshihiro Ouchi. Only during the special viewing may you stand on its veranda.
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Susa Hornfels
A shore in Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park. About 15 million years ago magma entered sand and mud strata, and its heat made the banded rock.
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Hofu Tenmangu Shrine
Of the roughly 12,000 shrines to Sugawara no Michizane in Japan, this is held to be the first built.
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Shimonoseki City Shimonoseki Aquarium "Kaikyokan"
The aquarium of Shimonoseki, with a display of pufferfish and a great tank recreating the currents of the Kanmon Strait.