Yamaguchi Travel Guide
From Wikitravel
Yamaguchi (山口) is the capital of Yamaguchi prefecture, at the western tip of the island of Honshu, Japan. In the city, there is a beautiful Japanese town which flourished as "Kyoto in the West" in the Medieval Period. We can find lots of traces of its prosperity there.
Contents |
Districts
The area of Yamaguchi is very large. Therefore, it can be devided into some districts.
- Old town of Yamaguchi(I)
- Ouchi district including Niho and Osaba(II)
- Shin-Yamaguchi district;New town of Yamaguchi(III, IV)
- Aio(V)
- Ajisu(VI)
- Tokuji(VII)
Understand
With under 200,000 people, Yamaguchi is the smallest prefectural capital in Japan.
Get in
By plane
By train
Yamaguchi's main train station is located separately from Shin-Yamaguchi (新山口), a station on the San'yo Shinkansen route. Regular trains connect both stations in 15-25 minutes.
Shin-Yamaguchi is a bullet train station stop for only a few Nozomi trains, most Hikari trains, and all of the Kodama all-station trains. By a combination of bullet train and local train, Yamaguchi is about 60-70 minutes from Hakata in Fukuoka (¥5860 via Nozomi), about 2 1/2 hours from Osaka (¥12890 via Nozomi) and about 5 hours from Tokyo (¥20960 via Nozomi).
Note that you cannot use NOZOMI trains with the Japan Rail Pass.
Get around
See
- Rurikōji (瑠璃光寺). Famed for its five-story pagoda.
- Ichinosaka-gawa River (一の坂川). Over the clean and beautiful small river, many cherry blossoms can be seen in spring, and in summer you will find many fireflys glowing.
Do
Buy
Eat
Hotel La Francesca, Yamaguchi http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cbt52690/lafrancesca.htm
Drink
Sleep
Hotel La Francesca, Yamaguchi http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cbt52690/lafrancesca.htm
Get out
Other cities in Yamaguchi Prefecture
| This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow! |
