Hagi City

A rowed boat links a bridgeless road.

Tsurue Ferry, a municipal road

Photo by ブルーノ・プラス (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ The Magnetic Rock of Mt. Takayama, Susa (須佐高山の磁石石)

The boulders on Takayama's summithave a strong magnetism, like natural magnets.

On the upper slopes of Mt. Takayama (532 m), north of Susa Bay, boulders of quartz gabbro are exposed, with a strong magnetism like that of natural magnets. The nearer a boulder is to the summit, the stronger its magnetism, and it weakens with distance. It is rare for a rock that is not magnetite to be this magnetic, and it was designated a National Natural Monument in 1936.

Mt. Takayama, 532 m
Boulders nearer the summit are more magnetic
National Natural Monument, 1936

02 ／ Natsumikan and Earthen Walls (夏みかんと土塀)

To shelter natsumikan trees from the wind,the samurai houses' earthen walls also suited.

After the Meiji Restoration, to help impoverished samurai, the Hagi retainer Obata Takamasa turned samurai-house land in the Heankoji district into natsumikan (summer orange) groves. Horiuchi, sandy and well drained, became the best site, and its heavy earthen walls, left standing in the samurai quarter, served to protect the wind-sensitive trees. The natsumikan is also the city's designated fruit.

Obata Takamasa began growing them in Heankoji
Horiuchi was the best site
Designated the city's fruit

03 ／ Ebisugahana Shipyard and the Heishin Maru (恵美須ヶ鼻造船所跡と丙辰丸)

Old documents confirm the Western-style ship Heishin Maruused iron from Oitayama for its nails.

恵美須ヶ鼻造船所跡1.JPG — Photo by Indiana jo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In 1856 the Hagi domain built a shipyard at Ebisugahana, and the Heishin Maru (丙辰丸, 25 m long) was launched that year. Old documents confirm that iron smelted at Oitayama in Fukue was used for its ship nails and other parts. The iron sand came by Kitamae-bune trading ships from Hamada in Shimane to Nago Port in Abu.

Heishin Maru: 25 m long, launched in 1856
Iron from Oitayama used for ship nails
Iron sand shipped from Shimane by Kitamae-bune

Living here

From a ferry across a river in Hamasaki to Mishima offshore.

about 40,000 people

Hagi keeps the former Hagi Domain Boathouse (旧萩藩御船倉) in Hamasaki, where the lord's boats were kept, and the streets of Sasanamiichi (佐々並市), a post town on the Hagi Okan road. Mishima, offshore, is 70 minutes by high-speed boat from Hagi Port, and on the island of Utsu a Kannon hall stands on a rock jutting into the sea. Ebisugahana Shipyard is one of the component sites of the World Heritage "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" (registered in 2015).

People living here: 44,626people
Area: 698.31km²
Households: 20,432households
Rent (average for rentals): 36,704yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 47 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-06 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —20 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Hagi City in Japan34.408°N 131.399°E

Territory of Hagi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

65.4km

Yamaguchi Prefecture: 山口市, 阿武町, 美祢市, 長門市
Shimane Prefecture: 益田市, 津和野町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Hagi City isthis kind of town.

01The Tsurue ferry in Hagi is a hand-rowed wooden boat, run by the city, that crosses about 80 m of the Matsumoto River between Hamasaki and Tsurue. It is a municipal road (Hamasaki-Tsurue Line), In the domain era there were several other ferries too, and this is the only one that remains as it was.
02On the summit of Mt. Takayama in Susa are boulders with a strong magnetism like natural magnets. The natsumikan groves began in Horiuchi and Heankoji after the Meiji Restoration, to help the samurai.
03Old documents confirm that iron from Oitayama was used for the Western-style ship Heishin Maru, launched at Ebisugahana Shipyard. Hagi also has the Hagi Domain Boathouse in Hamasaki, the post town of Sasanamiichi, and the island of Mishima offshore.

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hagi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗