Explore western Honshu from Okayama and Hiroshima to Yamaguchi and the Sanin coast. Mainline rail links coexist with slower coastal and rural connections.
Choose between the Sanyo corridor and the Sanin side early. Allow time for local transfers, especially when traveling away from the Shinkansen.
Saigen Jiro · CC0 1.0 · CroppedExplore a city where a medieval pagoda, peaceful gardens and traditional lacquerware reveal the cultural ambitions of western Japan’s Ouchi rulers. Discovering…
yamaguchi · yuda-onsen · Little Kyoto
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© そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped and resized to 800 × 450 pixels; adapted image licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.Discover a historic castle town where samurai-era streets, mountain shrines, literary heritage, and the memory of religious persecution reveal different…
shimane · tsuwano · Little Kyoto
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Where to Go in Yamaguchi: Between Two Seas Yamaguchi sits at the western end of Honshu, between the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan. The two coasts give…
Yamaguchi · Honshu · Seto Inland Sea · Sea of Japan · Iwakuni · Shin-Yamaguchi · Hiroshima · Hagi · Nagato · Akiyoshidai · Shimonoseki · Kanmon Strait · Kyushu · Kintaikyo · Nishiki River · Kikko Park · Iwakuni Castle · Iwakuni Station · Shin-Iwakuni Station · Rurikoji Temple · Akiyoshido · Sanin · Shimane · Senzaki · Omijima · Karato · Karato Market · Mojiko · Kanmon Pedestrian Tunnel · iwakuni · akiyoshidai · hagi · nagato · shimonoseki
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663highland · CC BY 2.5 · CroppedThe Seto Inland Sea is not simply the water beside the Sanyo route. It is a travel region in its own right, where islands, ferries, bridges and port cities…
Akashi · Awaji Island · Kobe · Sumoto · Fukura · Naruto · Tokushima · Shikoku · Okayama · Takamatsu · Kotohira · Uno · Naoshima · Miyanoura · Shodoshima · Tonosho · Ikeda · Sakate · Onomichi · Setoda · Ikuchijima · Imabari · Hiroshima · Kure · Matsuyama · seto-inland-sea · awaji-island · naoshima · shodoshima · shimanami-kaido · imabari · ikuchijima-setoda · omishima · onomichi · shikoku · kotohira · naruto
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The Sanyo side of western Honshu is easy to cross quickly, but it is more useful to think of it as a series of places with different roles in a trip. The Sanyo…
Himeji · Mount Shosha · Okayama · Kurashiki · Bitchu-Takahashi · Hiruzen Kogen · Fukuyama · Tomonoura · Onomichi · Hiroshima · Miyajima · Sandankyo · himeji · kurashiki · bitchu-takahashi · hiruzen-kogen · fukuyama · tomonoura · onomichi · miyajima · sandankyo
Read more →Stretching west along the Sea of Japan, northern Hyogo, Tottori, and Shimane offer a side of Japan that feels very different from the busy urban corridor…
Hyogo · Kinosaki Onsen · Izushi · Takeda Castle Ruins · Tottori · Tottori Sand Dunes · Kurayoshi · Misasa Onsen · Mount Daisen · Sakaiminato · Matsue · Yasugi · Adachi Museum of Art · Tamatsukuri Onsen · Izumo · Izumo Taisha · Oki Islands · Iwami Ginzan · kinosaki-onsen · Izushi · kurayoshi · misasa-onsen · mount-daisen · sakaiminato · matsue · yasugi · tamatsukuri-onsen · oki-islands · iwami-ginzan
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Kanchi1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and white top padding addedDeparting southward from Okayama opens up rail routes across the Seto-Ohashi Bridge into Shikoku, the only one of Japan's four main islands with no Shinkansen…
domestic-transfer · shikoku · train-station
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brian25_tw · CC BY-SA 2.0 · CroppedDeparting westward from Shin-Osaka Station brings travelers face-to-face with a sharp structural divide in western Japan's railway network. Destinations along…
domestic-transfer · sanyo · sanin · train-station · shinkansen
Read more →When travelers visit Japan’s old gold and silver mines today, they often find quiet mountain paths, restored tunnels, small museums, and towns that seem far…
history · mines · culture · gold-mines · silver-mines · sado-gold-mine · iwami-ginzan · yunooku-gold-mine · ikuno-silver-mine · ginzan-onsen · niigata · shimane · yamanashi · hyogo · yamagata · sado
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