Hagi Castle & Hagi Castle Town Project

I recently completed work on a large project about the castle town of Hagi which has been in progress for over a year now. For more details please refer to the Hagi Castle Town feature. It's also the top link under "Feature Articles" above. This update include almost 300 pictures split between

Hagi Castle & Castle Town Project

2025-03-23

I recently completed work on a large project about the castle town of Hagi which has been in progress for over a year now. For more details please refer to the Hagi Castle Town feature. It's also the top link under "Feature Articles" above.

This update include almost 300 pictures split between 11 albums and 10 samurai residences.

Feature Article Hagi Castle Town

Hagi Castle Albums

Samurai Homes

Hagi Castle / 萩城

This was an amazing site to visit. Personally, I would include it as one of my favorite places in Japan. The castle ruins themselves are much more extensive than most books give them credit for. There are many stone walls around the base of the mountain and some that go right up to the edge of the ocean. There are remnants of clay walls and the remains from splitting stones for the walls at both the top of the mountain and on the coast. The castle ruins are amazing enough, but the castle town really sets Hagi Castle apart from others. I've never seen another castle town that's so well preserved.

There are several albums and samurai residences linked below or read through my feature article Hagi Castle Town that gives an overview of everything to see in the town.

GPS data for some of the photos around the castle main areas are approximations because my GPS device was frozen for awhile. They are good guesses based on street view and satellite imagery.

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