Countryside in eastern Yamaguchi-ken |
Rice fields in rural Yamaguchi |
Above the tracks at Yamaguchi station |
Platform with train at JR Yamaguchi |
Old houses on a Yamaguchi sidestreet |
Torii in front of Gokoku-jinja |
Barren path to Gokoku-jinja |
Outside Jōei-ji |
Main entrance to the temple |
Sesshutei garden within Jōei-ji |
Interior room in Jōei-ji |
Rocks in the zen garden |
Folding screen inside Jōei-ji |
Zen rock garden in front of the temple |
Mini Mt. Fuji in Sesshutei |
Rock garden with temple gate |
Tourists admiring the garden at Jōei-ji |
Lilypad-covered pond in Sesshutei |
Old buildings along a residential street |
Old kura behind a fence |
Memorial to St. Francis Xavier |
Prefectural Government Archives Museum |
Entrance to Rurikō-ji |
Five-storied pagoda at Rurikō-ji |
Main temple buildings at Rurikō-ji |
Front of the five-storied pagoda |
Main hall at Rurikō-ji |
Kannon statue at Rurikō-ji |
Manicured lawn with Rurikō-ji pagoda |
Stone sculpture of the pagoda |
Kendō instructor statue outside Rurikō-ji |
Rural outskirts of Yamaguchi |
Restored teahouse at Unkoku-an |
Yamaguchi Saikotei |
Taisho-era building at Yasaka-jinja |
Main hall at Yasaka-jinja |
Yamaguchi Furusato Heritage Center |
Front entrance of the old machiya |
Jizō at Ryūfuku-ji |
Old brick building beside the Prefectural Museum |
Ugoku-shiro fountain in Kameyama-kōen |
St. Francis Xavier Memorial Church |
Next to the modernist church |
Memorial statue of St. Francis Xavier |
Yamaguchi Civic Hall |
Old telephone booth and vermilion bridge in Hōfu |
Outer torii leading into Hōfu Tenman-gū |
Torii detail at Hōfu Tenman-gū |
Hōfu Tenman-gū |
Front view of the main gate |
Copper lantern beside the main gate |
Children's calligraphy on display at the shrine |
Main hall and omikuji booth |
Tied omikuji draped over the booth |
Lion figure outside the main hall |
Rows of ema at Hōfu Tenman-gū |
Looking at the votive plaques |
Stack of ema hung up together |
Sake barrels at Hōfu Tenman-gū |
Skyline of old and new Hōfu |
Mountains at the edge of Hōfu |
Wooden carving in the old bell tower |
Main path leading away from the shrine |
Decorative souvenir shop building |
Wall tiles near Suo Kokubun-ji |
Niō-mon leading into Suo Kokubun-ji |
Main hall of Suo Kokubun-ji from the Niō-mon |
Main hall with incense urn |