Hagi Tourist Information
Located in the middle of Yamaguchi along the coast of the Japan Sea, Hagi is a castle town sitting on the delta of the Abu-gawa River surrounded by mountains on three sides. Its coastal part belongs to Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park.
Early in the 17th century, Mori Terumoto, a then samurai ruler, built the Hagi Castle at the foot of Mt. Shizuki-yama at the northwest of Hagi, and this place had been the seat of the Yamaguchi prefectural government until the administration was moved to the city of Yamaguchi in the middle of the 19th century. At the transition stage of Japan late in the 19th century, Hagi produced many capable men who played leading roles in the construction of modern Japan, including Takayoshi Kido and Hirobumi Ito.
The site of Hagi Castle, on which some portions of castle walls and stonewalls remain, is open to the public and today called Shizuki Park. If you go east of the Hagi Castle's outer moat where the castle town once stood, you can see old-time alleys and white storehouses with namako walls (covered with square tiles jointed with raised plaster). The area containing three parallel-running bystreets, Edoya-Yokocho, Iseya-Yokocho, and Kikuya-Yokocho, where old-time residences are open to the public, is listed as a national historic site as the castle town of Hagi. Horiuchi, east of the remains of the outer castle moat, is an area where high-ranking samurai lived and designated as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings.
Also, when you visit Hagi, known for Hagi-yaki pottery, you cannot miss the Ishii-Chawan (bowl) Museum exhibiting masterpieces of Ko-Hagi (old Hagi) ware together with about 130 pieces of bowls and works of contemporary ceramic artists.
© by Japan National Tourist Organization
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