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- The 2023 “Let’s Walk Around Town with an Old Map in Hand” will begin! (9/16-)
The 2023 “Let’s Walk Around Town with an Old Map in Hand” will begin! (9/16-)
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Last updated:
Sep 15, 2023
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Nagato Tourism Convention Association
Be a Time Traveler
On September 16 (Sat), a guided walk event "Let's Walk Around Town with an Old Map in Your Hand" will start in various locations in Yamaguchi Prefecture. (Organized by the Yamaguchi Prefectural Tourism Federation)" will start on Saturday, September 16.
This tour is a stroll around the town with a local guide while looking at beautiful old maps made by the Choshu clan's cartographer. There are a total of five courses in Nagato City (Dori, Senzaki, Misumi, Nagato Yumoto Onsen, and Tawarayama).
Please see below for the dates and fees for each course.
Strolling through the town while looking at old maps, you will be able to see the streets and streets of the past, and people's way of life beyond the passage of time. We look forward to your participation.
→Click here for the official website of the prefecture-wide event.
Flyer (Nagato version)
Old Map Walk, Dori
Tour of fishing town streets with kindness and humanity that lived together with whales
The Tong area of Qinghai Island is a fishing village with narrow alleys and rows of houses characteristic of traditional fishing villages, which evoke the original Japanese landscape.
With an old map in hand, the Kayoi-guide group will take you on a tour of the old whaling villages, where the whale culture, which lived on the sea and depended on whaling for its daily sustenance, still remains strong.
information
- Dates: 1st and 3rd Saturdays from September 16, 2023 to March 2024
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Whale Museum
- Time required: about 2 hours (about 3.3 km)
- Participation fee: 1,000 yen per person (including admission fee to the Whale Museum)
- Minimum number of participants: 5
- Application deadline: 1 week before the event date
- Application: Nagatrip website
Old Map Walk, Senzaki
Tour of Senzaki, a port town that prospered as a port of call for Choshu and Kitaura whaling and Kitamae ships
Senzaki, Nagato City, was called Setozaki in the Edo period (1603-1867) and was a bustling port town.
In addition to being a fishing port for sardines and whales, it was also a port of call on the westbound route of Kitamae-bune, and commerce thrived there.
With an old map in hand, the Nagato Volunteer Guides' Association will lead you on a tour of the area to see what it must have looked like in those days.
information
- Dates: Every Sunday from September 16, 2023 to March 2024
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Roadside Station Senza Kitchen Tourist Information Center YUKUTE
- Time required: about 2 hours (about 3.7 km)
- Participation fee: 500 yen per person
- Minimum number of participants: 3
- Application deadline: 3 days before the event date
- Application: Nagatrip website
Old Map Walk, Misumi
Origin walk of Seifu Murata and Masanosuke Shufu, who laid the foundation for the Meiji Restoration
Misumi, Nagato City, produced "Murata Seifu," who played a central role in the clan's political reforms and laid the foundation for the Restoration Kaiten, and "Shufu Masanosuke," who was a reformer in the clan and supported the aspirants at the end of the Edo period.
Local guides will take you to the places associated with the origin of local sages.
information
- Date: 3rd Sunday from September 16, 2023 to March, 2024 *But the 3rd Saturday in September (9/16)
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Seifu Murata Memorial Hall
- Travel time: approx. 2 hours (approx. 4 km)
- Participation fee: 500 yen per person (including admission fee to Seifu Murata Memorial Museum)
- Minimum number of participants: 1
- Application deadline: 3 days before the event date
- Application: Nagatrip website
Old map walk, Nagato Yumoto Onsen
Town of hot springs associated with the Ouchi and Mori clans
Nagato Yumoto Onsen is one of the representative hot spring towns in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
It is closely related to Daneiji Temple, which is associated with the Ouchi clan, the most powerful feudal lord in the western part of the country during the Muromachi period (1336-1573), and had an ochaya (tea house) during the Edo period (1603-1868).
With an old map in hand, we will tour the town of hot springs, which flourished as a therapeutic bath for the feudal lords.
information
- Dates: 9/20 (Wed.), 10/11 (Wed.), 11/29 (Wed.), 12/16 (Sat.), and 3/27 (Wed.), 2024
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Daneiji Temple
- Time required: about 2 hours (about 2 km)
- Participation fee: 800 yen per person
- Minimum number of participants: 4
- Application deadline: 10 days before the event date
- Application: Nagatrip website
Old map walk, Tawarayama
Onsen ranking West Yokozuna-dono's tour of hot spring cures
During the feudal era, the northern route of the Akamaseki Highway connecting Hagi and Akamaseki was designated to go via Tawarayama Onsen in a roundabout way.
The Tawarayama Shittoru-kai will guide you, map in hand, through the streets of Tawarayama Onsen, a "therapeutic hot spring loved by the feudal lords," where records of successive feudal lords have visited.
information
- Dates: Every Sunday from September 16, 2023 to March 2024
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Yumachi Ward parking lot next to Kumano Shrine
- Travel time: about 1 hour and 30 minutes (about 1.2 km)
- Participation fee: 1,200 yen per person (including onsen bathing fee)
- Minimum number of participants: 1
- Application deadline: 3 days before the event date
- Application: Nagatrip website
Related Links
- Let's walk around town with an old map in your hand. (official website)
- Whale Museum
- Seifu Murata Memorial Hall
- Daineiji Temple
- Nagato Yumoto Onsen
- Tawarayama Onsen
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