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A roof-tiled house consists of two 8 and 10.5 tatami rooms located inside Shoin shrine. Yoshida Shoin educated low-class soldiers and children of ordinary people from 1857 for two and a half years.

Many of human resources who worked for Meiji restoration such as Takasugi Shinsaku, Kusaka Genzui, Ito Hirobumi was produced from this school.

Designated as a world heritage in July 2015 (Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution)

Basic Information

Location Chinto Matsumotoichi 1537, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Access (1) 10 minutes walk from JR Sanin main line Higashi-Hagi station
(2) 20 minutes by car from Chugoku Expressway Mine Higashi JCT
→ 20 minutes by car from Ogori Hagi road Edo IC
(Take Ogori Hagi Road directly connected to JCT towards Hagi)
→ 1 minute walk from Shoin Shrine
Website http://www.shoin-jinja.jp/
Office of Inquiry Shonin Shrine shrine office TEL: 0838-22-4643