Cruises from Hagi
Hagi is a small city (pop. 50,000) lying on the SW coast of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. Across the Sea of Japan it faces Pusan, South Korea, 220 km distant. The city faces a small bay protected by breakwaters, and is divided by a river that enters the sea by two mouths. To the western side is a small promontory – Mount Shizuki - at the base of which are the historic remains of Hagi Castle built in 1604; much of the castle was destroyed in 1874.
Read moreStill, it remains a National Historic site of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, of the latter half of the 19th C. The site is worth visiting for its gardens, motes, relic structures and historical information.
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