[山口県 旅行]萩市のレトロ美しい街並みは歩くだけでも楽しい、おススメ散歩ルート紹介

[山口県 旅行]萩市のレトロ美しい街並みは歩くだけでも楽しい、おススメ散歩ルート紹介

Hello. This time I went on a trip to Hagi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Hagi City is famous for its old-fashioned streetscape, and I actually walked around and thought it was a great place, so I’d like to introduce the places I went to see. Thank you. First of all, Hagi City is located on the Sea of ​​Japan side of Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan. This time, I started from Shizuki Park, the ruins of Hagi Castle. There is a free parking lot near the ruins of Hagi Castle. I rented a car and parked there, but there is a bus that leaves from Hagi Station, so you can also take that bus to get close by. The lord who built this castle was Mori Terumoto. There is a potter on the way from the parking lot to the castle entrance. Hagi is famous for its pottery called Hagi ware, and you can see many shops selling Hagi ware not only here but also in other tourist spots. Hagi Castle was built in 1604 by Mori Terumoto at the foot of Mt. Shizuki, so it is also known as Shizuki Castle. The main citadel had a five-story castle tower with eight kennels and a height of 14.4 meters. In 1874, the castle tower and other buildings were demolished, and only the stone walls and parts of the moat remain, and the site is now designated as a national historic site. Only the foundation stone pedestal remains at the site of the original castle tower, and the remains of the Yagura pedestal can be seen, with earthworks running along the inner moat from the castle tower ruins. What is this? It looks like a waterway, but I don’t know what it is. You can climb Mt. Shigetsu from the park. It takes about 20 minutes to walk to the top of the mountain, and since it’s probably a tough walk, there are bamboo sticks available for you to use as walking sticks. The park also has the Hanae Tea House. This is the tea room where the 13th feudal lord, Mori Yoshichika, discussed the times with his retainers. It was originally a teahouse built inside a villa. It was moved to this park. And there is a shrine in the park. The shrine is Shizukiyama Shrine, where the successive feudal lords of the Hagi domain are enshrined. At the foot of Shizukiyama Shrine, there is a Midoriyoshino cherry tree that can only be seen here. A special cherry blossom that can only be seen in Hagi. When I went, the Midori Yoshino was not in bloom, but it is said that the best time to see it is from mid to late March. In addition to the Midori Yoshino, there are 600 Somei Yoshino trees in the park. There are also azaleas planted, so it would be a spectacular sight to come when they are in bloom. The castle ruins are registered as part of the World Heritage Site of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron, Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. This is near the remains of the Ninomaru East Gate of Hagi Castle. I thought there was a big bird and it was a decoration, but when I got closer I was surprised to see it suddenly appear. I was able to see Mt. Shizuki and these stone walls, the ruins of a beautiful castle. In front of the free parking lot, there is a tenement house that you can enter with the combined admission ticket you received when you entered the castle. Inside the tenement house, there are dioramas and old maps on display. The dioramas let you know the layout of the castle in the past. The old-fashioned buildings were also interesting to look at. There is a dock for sightseeing boats near the ruins of Hagi Castle. You can see the town of Hagi, Mt. Shizuki, and the stone walls from the river and sea. I usually get seasick, so I don’t often go on boats like this, but I really wanted to enjoy the town, so I decided to go on this one. By the way, even though I get seasick a lot, I was able to enjoy the trip without getting sick at all. The boatman on the sightseeing boat will tell you what kind of place this place is. It’s written on the website that this is the location where Tsuribaka Nisshi was filmed, and that the white walls here are the longest in Hagi. He told me about the houses where famous people were born, grew up, and lived, and also about recent events in this area of ​​Hagi. And since he’s a boatman, he sings boat songs. I don’t usually go on boats, so I don’t have many opportunities to hear these boat songs, but listening to them, I thought they were very interesting. I hope they continue to preserve traditional songs and things like that. This sightseeing boat goes out to sea, not just rivers. When you go out to sea, you can see an island off the coast of Hagi, and the stone walls of Hagi Castle. These stone walls are very famous. The stone wall is dotted with arrow towers, folding screens that bend the base line, and horizontal arrows that increase the shooting surface to strengthen the defense. That’s what the stone wall is like. The sea was beautiful and I enjoyed the pleasure boat ride very much. Hagi is home to the Horiuchi District, an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. There is an outer moat, and the area is west of the outer moat. This time I took a walk around this area. The walking time on Google Maps is about 40 minutes, but if you walk around and look at things here, it will take about 2 hours. First, I came to the Kuchibane House. It was once a senior samurai residence in the Hagi domain. It is a national important cultural property. It is said to have been built between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. It is said that the gate was installed in Hagi after being bestowed from the Edo Domain’s residence, which is a designated Important Cultural Property by the national government. This is the Horiuchi Kagikaku. The kanji for “key” is written as “kai” but it is pronounced “kai.” This is a road that is unique to castle towns, with a right-angle bend in the road. At first glance, it is a unique road with no clear view, making it seem like a dead end. This makes it easier to fight back by reducing visibility during battles. This Kagikaku is characterized by its high walls. This is an earthen wall, but the road curves at a right angle to it. The ruins of the former Meirinkan building are located near the Horiuchi Kagikaku. Meirinkan, a domain school, was founded in 1718 by Mori Yoshimoto, the fifth lord of the Hagi domain, and covered a total area of ​​3,100 m2. For 130 years, until it was moved to Emukai in the center of Hagi castle town in 1849, it provided education for the domain’s samurai who would lead the domain’s government. This Heian Bridge is one of the three main gates in the Sannomaru area of ​​Hagi Castle. The bridge is made of andesite. And the structure seems unusual. It certainly looks beautiful, and I thought it was a bridge I’d never seen before. This area is rich in history, and the further you walk, the more you’ll see stone monuments, historical buildings, and other such structures. And the roads are very straight and clean. The streets of Hagi have been preserved so much since ancient times that you can use maps from the Edo period. This area is home to the Hagi Museum, the Hagi Town Museum. I had summer orange soft serve ice cream at this museum. It was very delicious. And this bronze statue is of Giichi Tanaka. It’s on display next to the museum. Also, there were old-fashioned electrical appliances on display. Is this jar with flowers on it a rice cooker? It’s like something I’ve seen before, but not quite. The signboards and other things were also very interesting. And a little north of the Hagi Museum is the northern main gate of Hagi Castle. This gate separates the Sannomaru area of ​​Hagi Castle, or the so-called moat, from the castle town. I thought it was a very impressive gate. And here you can also find the former Masuda family watchtower. This tower housed weapons and also served as a lookout for the northern main gate. It served as a covert measure to watch over people entering and leaving the northern main gate. Just walking along this road, you’ll see earthen walls and stone walls all around. When I see things like that, I think they’re very well maintained and very interesting, and I think they’re a well-preserved area. And depending on the location, summer mandarins are planted here, as Hagi is famous for them. The combination of these earthen walls and summer mandarins, and stone walls and summer mandarins, is very beautiful. It’s interesting to go here after learning about the history of the area, but it’s also very interesting just to walk around like this. Hagi was designated a traditional buildings preservation district on September 4, 1976. This was the first time this day was selected in Japan, and Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Akita, Nagano, and Gifu were the first to set this day. Two places in Hagi were selected at this time. That’s why I think the townscape is so interesting. Even if you walk around after learning a little about history like me, I still think it’s a fun town. Walk around the castle town of Hagi. The town is lined with beautiful white and sea cucumber-walled streets, dotted with sites associated with Meiji Restoration heroes. Meirin Gakusha is a great starting point for sightseeing in this area. I’ve also put together these two videos about Yoshida Shoin, Shoin Shrine, and Yamaguchi Prefecture, so please watch them as well. If you follow the general walking route of this castle town on Google Maps, it says it takes about 40 minutes. There are many things to see here, so it takes about two hours to see everything. I didn’t look too deeply into it, but if I had looked more seriously, it would have taken a whole day to see it all. The castle town is lined with these ordinary streets. I was enjoying walking around here, but I had completely forgotten that there was a house related to Takasugi Shinsaku here. And it was in such a place that you wouldn’t even notice it was there. Everyone, be careful when you walk around here, don’t forget the house of a very famous person. Can you see the inside of the house? It seemed like a normal house. But it’s different now from the past, so in that sense I think it’s not a very big house. Takasugi Shinsaku formed the Kiheitai and worked hard to overthrow the shogunate. He was a man of great vigor at the end of the Edo period, described by Ito Hirobumi as being as powerful as thunder when he moved. Takasugi Shinsaku loved plum blossoms, so plum trees are planted in Shinsaku Square near his house. Kikuya Yokocho is a typical street in the castle town, where the streetscape from the Edo period remains. The white walls and sea cucumber walls make this road one of Japan’s top 100 roads. If you walk west from here, you’ll find a statue of Giichi Tanaka. Giichi Tanaka was the 26th Prime Minister of Japan. His birthplace is also nearby. The Horiuchi district is on the left, west side of the road you are walking on. And this gate is the northern main gate. This gate separates the castle town from the Horiuchi district. We will walk through the castle town without going to the Horiuchi district side. The old walls and earthen walls remain on the castle town side as well. Also, there is a wooden electric pole. I don’t know if it’s been there since the Meiji era, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one. It’s more like it’s the first time I’ve seen one, rather than it being a long time. When you walk through the castle town of Hagi, there are three alleys: Kikuya Yokocho, Iseya Yokocho, and Edoya Yokocho. Crossing at a right angle to them is Route 295, also known as the Hagi Castle Ruins Line. I’m walking through Edoya Yokocho here. I’m in Hagi, and just walking through Kikuya Yokocho, Iseya Yokocho, Edoya Yokocho, and the Hagi Castle Ruins Line is enough to enjoy this castle town. If you don’t have much time to sightsee in Hagi, I think you can enjoy it very efficiently by looking at these four places and four streets. Of course the other places are interesting too, so if you have time, it might be a good idea to see them all. Also, if you want to enjoy the streets of Hagi or just stroll around, you can hire a guide to help you out. It’s not free, but walking around the town and looking at the buildings and stone walls while listening to the guide might make your trip even more enjoyable. The feudal lord of Hagi was the Mori clan, and the graves of the Mori clan are in Hagi city. There are two graves of the Mori clan in Hagi: this Toko-ji temple and another one, Daisho-in temple. Toko-ji Temple is the graveyard of the odd-numbered 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th feudal lords, and Daisho-in Temple is the graveyard of the even-numbered 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th feudal lords. The 13th lord is in Yamaguchi City. This time I went to Toko-ji Temple. There are four nationally designated important cultural properties here. There are two gates, a bell tower, and the main hall. This is a temple and a cemetery, so it’s more of a place to pray than a place to see. However, there are stone lanterns, which are famous, although I didn’t take many photos. There are only two reverberatory furnaces remaining in Japan. This is the Hagi Reverberatory Furnace, and the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace in Shizuoka Prefecture. The Hagi Reverberatory Furnace is one of the components of the World Heritage Site, Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron, Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. There is a World Heritage monument there. The reverberatory furnace is a metal melting furnace. It was built because there was a need for a Western-style iron cannon to replace the old cannons at a time when the sense of crisis against the Western powers was growing. The only record is that it was founded as a test furnace in 1856, so the view that this was a test furnace is widely accepted. It’s set up in a beautiful place with a view of the ocean. One of the World Heritage sites is the Oitayama Tatara Ironworks. This place is quite far from downtown Hagi. What is tatara ironworking, a traditional Japanese ironmaking technique? In a word, imagine the wooden board that appears at the beginning of Princess Mononoke, where air is blown into the bellows by stepping on it. Iron is made by melting iron sand, and the Hagi clan built the first Western-style fleet, the Heitatsumaru, at the Ebisugahana shipyard. The raw iron for the ship’s anchors and nails was supplied from this Oitayama Tatara. It’s a very quiet place, deep in the mountains. However, there are a lot of cedar trees, so it may be a bit difficult to come here during pollen season. Also, the water in the river nearby was very clear. Also, there is a tourist center nearby where guides are available. There was a sign there warning of vipers, so be careful. The sea in Hagi is very beautiful. You can see the sea from a high vantage point. This is a place called Kasayama. You can see the surrounding islands and things like that from the top of the mountain, which is about 122 meters above sea level. There seems to be a hiking trail to the top. Of course, you can also go by car. I went by car. And you can see not only the sea but also the crater. It is still an active volcano. There is an observation deck at the top of the mountain, and the second floor is a cafe. The third floor is a sort of rest area, where you can sit and look at the ocean. I was able to enjoy the beautiful ocean. Hagi City is amazing not only for its beautiful scenery, but also for its wonderful scenery, so it was a very interesting trip. It was a three-day trip that also took us to Hagi, but the time flew by. And the food was delicious. And the places we went a little outside of Hagi were also very interesting. That’s all for the Yamaguchi Prefecture travel edition. Thank you for watching until the end. If you want to visit Hagi or Yamaguchi Prefecture, please comment, like, and subscribe.

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日本の山口県の萩市を旅行をしてきました。

今回は歩く以外に、遊覧船に乗船し、船から街並みを見てみました。

萩市は吉田松陰先生ゆかりの地です。
明治維新、日本の工学発展に寄与した志士を育てた方です。

伝統的建造物群保存地区に選定された場所で、昔ながらが残っています。

00:00 スタート
00:27 城の駐車場
01:27 萩城跡
05:04 遊覧船
07:27 伝統的建造物群保存地区
10:06 堀内地区
13:04 日本の道100選
16:46 城下町
18:08 東光寺
19:26 反射炉
20:25 たたら製鉄遺跡
21:40 笠山
22:49 締め

山口旅行
Part1 https://youtu.be/aYxPVoVbynA
Part2 https://youtu.be/4bCyPfZLRnM
Part3 https://youtu.be/lvxctDBTwk8

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萩の海鮮ってなんであんなにおいしいのだろうか。

今回は宿泊先をagodaで見つけました。私が見た中では一番リーズナブルでした。

山口編のはじまりです！

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