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Iwakuni Castle was built by Kikkawa Hiroie on Moun…

Kintai Bridge is a five-arch wooden bridge built i…

Kikko Park occupies the former residence grounds o…

Shirayama Hime Shrine is said to have been founded…

A Jodo Shinshu Hongan-ji temple in Nishimi, the townspeople's quarter across the Nishiki River — an Amida hall steps from Nishi-Iwakuni Station that has carried the faith of Iwakuni's townsfolk since the Edo era

The guardian Hachimangu of the Kikkawa lords — founded in 1626 by Kikkawa Hiromasa with a deity invoked from Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, reached by 180 stone steps above Kintai Bridge, and celebrated in a verse by the great poet Sogi for its fierce deity of the mountain road

A Rinzai Zen temple born from the 1872 merger of Chotokuji (founded 1311) and the ancient Morikyuji — secluded in the mountain valley of the upper Nishiki River

A Jodo Shinshu Hongan-ji temple 500 m southwest of Kintaikyo Bridge, quietly maintaining its Dharma flame in the castle-town district shaped by the Kikkawa lords of Iwakuni

A Jodo Shinshu Hongan-ji temple in Iwakuni's Kintaikyo castle-town district, quietly keeping the Dharma flame lit in the streets shaped by the Kikkawa lords

A shrine enshrining the spirits of the successive …