Shokasonjuku
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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 |
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| 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 |
| Category | Historic Architecture |
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| Area | Hagi, Nagato |
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