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YamaguchiShrines & TemplesOne hundred and twenty-three torii run about 100 metres out towards the sea. A comparatively new shrine, built after a white fox appeared in the dream of a local fisherman. The torii went on being dedicated over more than a decade. The same structure as the thousand torii at Fushimi Inari or the lanterns at Kasuga Taisha, still working in postwar Japan.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesHeld to be the earliest founded of the Tenmangu shrines to Sugawara no Michizane, and counted with Kitano and Dazaifu among the three great Tenjin shrines of Japan.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Emperor Antoku, who drowned at Dannoura. Known for its red and white Suitenmon gate, which recalls the palace of the dragon king.
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YamaguchiShrines & TemplesIts main hall is a National Treasure. With Osaka and Hakata it is counted among the three great Sumiyoshi shrines. Its kukensha nagare-zukuri form is unusual.
It enshrines Yoshida Shoin. The Shoka Sonjuku school in its grounds is a component of the World Cultural Heritage Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesOne of the three finest pagodas of Japan, and held to be the summit of Ouchi culture.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesIt looks down on the Kanmon Strait. A monument here records the origin of eating pufferfish.
The white snakes of Iwakuni are a Natural Monument, held to be messengers of Benzaiten.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesIt enshrines the Kikkawa, lords of the Iwakuni domain, at the foot of Kintaikyo.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesA town where Xavier was permitted to preach by Ouchi Yoshitaka, and Japan's first permanent church was established. One of the starting points of Japanese Christian history.
Its tahoto pagoda is an Important Cultural Property, a trace of the old fusion of Shinto and Buddhism.
YamaguchiShrines & TemplesHeld to be the first shrine to receive a division of the deity of Ise Jingu, and called the Ise of the west.
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YamaguchiShrines & TemplesSaid to be the site of the temporary palace of Emperor Chuai. Its Suhoutei festival is called one of the strangest in Japan.
The funerary temple of the Mori, lords of the Chofu domain. Remains of a copper coin foundry were excavated here.
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