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Hofu Tenmangu is known as Japan's first Tenmangu s…

Suo Kokubunji was founded in 741 under Emperor Sho…

Amidaji was founded in 1195 by the monk Chogen…

Mori Clan Garden was completed in 1916 by Duke Mor…

The Mitajiri shrine where the Miyajima deity is said to have first descended — visited by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and prayed to for the safety of the great Genroku salt-field reclamation

Enshrined atop a 6th-century keyhole tomb — once a Myoken sanctuary patronized by Ouchi Morishige and Mori Motonari, rededicated as Amenominakanushi Shrine after the Meiji separation of Buddhism and Shinto

The First Grand Shrine of Suō Province — built on the burial ground of the jewel deity who forged the Imperial magatama, preserving Chōgen's 1195 reconstruction inventory (National Important Cultural Property) and rare Kurokasiwa chickens (National Natural Monument)

Naval base of the Hagi domain's fleet — home to the lord's flagship, and the Bakumatsu naval headquarters where Takasugi Shinsaku secured the domain's warships

A Hofu shrine to Yatagarasu, the three-legged crow that guided Emperor Jinmu — where Satsuma-Choshu forces prayed for victory before marching to topple the shogunate

A cliffside Inari sanctuary at the Seto Inland Sea — 1,300-year-old Tateiwa Inari hidden in coastal rocks, guardian of commerce and harvests