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Rooflines of Shinto Temple
Hagi, Japan has numerous temples with original, unreconstructed buildings. Of little importance to industrial Japan, the city suffered no major fires, as in other cities and was spared destruction in the world wars.
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Rugged Coast of Southwestern Honshu
The ruggedly beautiful coastline of southwestern Honshu Island is worth the day-long journey from Tokyo, Kyoto or other major cities on the east coast of the island.
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Honoring Generations of Shoguns
Rows and rows of lanterns honor centuries of shoguns who ruled from Hagi Castle. This Shinto shrine is one of two in the city which serve to memorialize rulers who hired samurai warriors to maintain their rule and battle with other regional leaders for power and glory.
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Covered shopping street in Hagi, Japan
This covered street in Hagi, Japan provides a relatively cool place to shop for supplies and souvenirs in small, family-owned shops. Watch out for motor vehicles, including town buses, which still use this as a two-way thoroughfare
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Hagi's Beach before the Crush
In the early morning during the summer, strollers can find an empty beach and wade in the warm waters of the Sea of Japan. Later in the day, beach-goers crowd the beaches for fun in the tepid water and hot sun.
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Light and Shadow at Hagi Castle
The green, still water of the moat at Hagi Castle turns black in the late afternoon sun. Ancient stone lanterns which guided residents and guards now stay dark at night in the castle grounds, now a public park.
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Hagi Castle Moat
Hagi Castle was voluntarily torn down to show loyalty to the new Emperor after the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Hagi was the site of the first effort to remove Japan from the rule of the Shoguns and to place more central authority into the hands of the Emperor. Ironically, the success of the revolution doomed Hagi to become a small fishing village instead of the thriving regional capital of western Honshu.
The castle walls surround the outside of a city park which replaced the castle grounds, and the moat forms the inner protection for this mysterious place.
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Only the Walls Remain
Hagi Castle was voluntarily torn down to show loyalty to the new Emperor after the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Hagi was the site of the first effort to remove Japan from the rule of the Shoguns and to place more central authority into the hands of the Emperor. Ironically, the success of the revolution doomed Hagi to become a small fishing village instead of the thriving regional capital of western Honshu.
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Drying Fish for the Summer Festival
Small fish are dried in the sun for the traditional summer snack at the city's largest summer festival.
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Samurai Warrior Armor
These authentic samurai warrior costumes date from the early to mid-nineteenth century and greet patrons of the traditional hotel and hot baths at the Senshunraku Hotel in Hagi, Japan.
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Roger Ward has been a member since 21 January 2008 and goes by tacomasunset.
Currently in Tacoma, just back from New Zealand.
I am a traveler who likes scenic spots, eco-tourism, adventure travel and voluntourism living in Tacoma, Washington, where Mount Rainier is a misty memory and occasional visitor in the winter or an everpresent luminescent beacon in the summer.
