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Shrine to Yoshida Shoin, executed at 29 in the Ansei Purge — the adjacent Shoka Sonjuku is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Mori Terumoto's post-Sekigahara castle — UNESCO World Heritage component and birthplace of Meiji Restoration leaders

A modest two-room academy that produced Japan's Meiji Restoration leaders — a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The hilltop birthplace where Yoshida Shoin was born in 1830 — educator and martyr of the Meiji Restoration

The thatched-roof home where Japan's first Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi lived from age 14 — a World Heritage component

Birthplace of Takasugi Shinsaku, founder of the mixed-class Kiheitai militia, born in Hagi in 1839

Mori clan mortuary temple with 600 stone lanterns before even-numbered lords' tombs, all lit at the August Mantoe festival

Rare Obaku Zen temple architecture from 1691, with 500 stone lanterns before odd-numbered Mori lords' tombs

One of Japan's oldest surviving townhouses — five early Edo-period buildings of the Mori domain's chief merchant family

A historic merchant mansion renovated as a museum — the Kumaya family had notable exchanges with the German doctor Siebold