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Rurikoji Temple

Rurikoji is a Buddhist temple in Yamaguchi City, best known for its beautiful five-storied pagoda. Built in 1442, the pagoda is justifiably ranked among Japan's three most beautiful. A small museum on the temple grounds displays pictures and models of the over fifty other five-storied pagodas found across Japan.

Joeiji Temple

Joeiji is a Zen temple famous for its garden, Sesshutei. As its name suggests, the garden was built by the famous monk, painter and garden designer Sesshu. It reproduces one of Sesshu's landscape paintings.

Yamaguchi Daijingu

Yamaguchi Daijingu is a small version of the Ise Shrines, constructed in 1518 after the local lord Ouchi Yoshioki had traveled to Ise. Like the Ise Shrines, Yamaguchi Daijingu consists of an outer and inner shrine, and is rebuilt every 20 years.

Kozan Park

Kozan Park is located next to Rurikoji Temple. It features the burial site of the Mori family, who ruled the region during the Edo Period.
Also in the park stands Chinryutei, a tea house where Saigo Takamori and others pretended to practice the tea ceremony, but in reality planned the ultimately successful overthrow of the Edo shogunate, which led to the end of Japan's feudal age in 1868.

Xavier Memorial Church

In 1551, nine years after the arrival of the first Europeans in Japan, the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, undertook a mission to Kyoto. On his way, he spent half a year in Yamaguchi, a city he favored over the war torn capital of Kyoto.
To commemorate Xavier's visit to Yamaguchi, the Xavier Memorial Church was built in 1952. It burnt down and was reconstructed in the early 1990s.

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) was established in November 2003 as a cultural-arts complex that accommodates a hall for stage performances, an exhibition space, a mini film theatre, and the Yamaguchi City Library. A platform for sharing computer- and IT-based media technology, YCAM hosts among others a variety of theatre and dance performances, art exhibitions, film screenings, sound-related events, workshops and lectures.

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