The Yamaguchi City/Ube area offers sightseeing spots such as Kiyomizu Temple, Yasaka Shrine, and Akiyoshidai, sightseeing events such as the Hofu Yomiuri Marathon, Cherry Blossom Festival, and Akiyoshidai Mountain Fire, and local gourmet foods such as Uiro, Warabimochi, and Hanakkoryi.
The Yamaguchi City/Ube area offers many sightseeing spots including history, nature, hot springs, and gourmet foods. It is a fascinating area with many national treasures and important cultural assets, and is dotted with art galleries and museums.
Yamaguchi City is located in the center of Yamaguchi Prefecture and is the prefectural capital. The five-story pagoda of Ruridera Temple, a national treasure and one of the three most famous pagodas in Japan, is a must-see. There are many important cultural assets in the city, and sightseeing to visit them and experience the history is also attractive.
Steam locomotives nicknamed "Lady" and "Bonnie," respectively, traverse the city. Along the train line is Yuda Hot Springs. We recommend that you take a locomotive ride and stop by the hot springs.
The "Cherry Blossom Festival" to admire the weeping cherry blossoms along the approach to Tokusa Hachimangu Shrine and the fantastic "Yamaguchi Tanabata Chochin Festival" where many red lanterns glow in the dark night are also popular events.
Ube, located to the west of Yamaguchi City, faces the Suonada Sea. Ube is easily accessible from other prefectures, as it is home to Yamaguchi-Ube Airport. The morning market held by the fishermen's cooperative is a popular spot where locally caught fish and natural live tiger prawns, a specialty of Ube City, are sold. Of course, you can also enjoy fresh seafood from the Seto Inland Sea right away.
With the Sanyo Expressway and JR Sanyo Main Line running through the city, Ube City has many golf courses with convenient transportation, making it easy to play golf. Ube City is also an art town that hosts the "UBE Biennale" every other year, and modern art is scattered throughout the city. Tokiwa Park, with its amusement park and campground, is a spot where visitors can appreciate lush greenery and innovative sculptures at the same time.
Akiyoshidai, which attracts many school excursion students and tourists, is a popular place to enjoy the magnificent and mysterious nature located to the west of Yamaguchi City. The area offers thrilling tours that allow visitors to explore the pitch-dark caves of Akiyoshidō Cave by flashlight or headlights.
There is also a safari park where you can see animals up close and an auto-camping site, making this area a good choice for those who want to have active fun.
There are also many specialty products such as 20th century pears, Mito burdocks, and Atsuho chestnuts, and visitors can experience pear picking and chestnut picking at tourist farms. In addition, if you visit a roadside station, you can purchase fresh local vegetables, locally processed products and souvenirs unique to the town.
As you can see, the Yamaguchi City-Ube area is full of various attractions. Whether you enjoy the sea or the mountains, the outdoors or art and history, the Yamaguchi City-Ube area is a must-visit destination.
One of the most famous limestone caves in the East, Akiyoshidai Cave is located 100 to 200 meters below the ground at the foot of Akiyoshidai Mountain.Of the total length of 10,300 meters, approximately 1 km is open to the public as a tourist route.It is the largest limestone cave in Japan. An underground river flows down for about 1 km from Kotogafuchi at the back of the cave to the cave mouth. ...»
Located in the precincts of Itsukushima Shrine, Beppu Benten Pond is a cobalt blue spring pond of mystery and legend.The bottom of the pond is transparent, making it appear shallow at first glance, but the water is approximately 4 meters deep. The pond is part of the Akiyoshidai Karst Plateau, and is a doline (a depression) formed by rainwater erosion on a plateau made of limestone and other rock...»
Tokiwa Park is a comprehensive leisure land that stretches around Lake Tokiwa and boasts an expansive area of 189 hectares (about 40 times the size of Tokyo Dome). The park is decorated with 3,500 cherry trees in spring, 80,000 irises, azaleas, and hydrangeas in early summer, chrysanthemums in fall, and an illumination event every winter, adding color to the park throughout the four seasons. The...»
Hofu Tenmangu Shrine is "Japan's first Tenmangu Shrine" dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, who is revered as the god of learning.Together with Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto and Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine in Fukuoka, it is said to be one of the three Tenmangu shrines in Japan. The main shrine, the hall of offerings, the hall of worship, and the Shunpu Tower are registered as tangible cultural prop...»
This is a zoo where visitors can observe free-ranging animals from their own cars, in a safari style, in a state close to that of the wild. There is also a petting zoo where visitors can interact with cute animals. There is also an amusement park with roller coasters and go-karts....»
This Catholic church was built in 1952 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's arrival in Yamaguchi.Regrettably, it was destroyed by fire in 1991, but was rebuilt in 1998. The reconstructed cathedral was designed by Italian priest Constantino Ruggieri and architect Luigi Leoni. The novel shape of the church, backed by two 53-meter high towers, was built under the overall themes of "wate...»
Yuda Onsen is known as a famous hot spring with the largest quantity of hot water in Sanyoji. It is characterized by its alkaline simple hot spring water, which is soft and comfortable on the skin. The origin of this hot spring is old, dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573). It is said that a wounded white fox soaked its feet in the hot spring to heal its wounds....»