A part of the mansion Hirobumi Ito, Japan’s first Prime Minister, built in Tokyo during the Meiji era, was moved to his hometown of Hagi. The biggest highlight is the “Eclectic” (Japanese-Western) architectural beauty where a gorgeous Western-style building incorporating Renaissance styles and a heavy Japanese room using the highest quality wood coexist. Especially from the interior decorated with luxurious mirrors and ornaments, the lifestyle of a politician symbolizing modernization at the time and his high ambitions looking toward the world are conveyed. Visiting together with his adjacent birthplace, you can deeply learn about his turbulent path and success\u2014how a boy born into a poor farming family rose to become the leader of the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A part of the mansion Hirobumi Ito, Japan’s first Prime Minister, built in Tokyo during the Meiji era, was moved to his hometown of Hagi. The biggest highlight is the “Eclectic” (Japanese-Western) architectural beauty where a gorgeous Western-style building incorporating Renaissance styles and a heavy Japanese room using the highest quality wood coexist. Especially from the interior decorated with luxurious mirrors and ornaments, the lifestyle of a politician symbolizing modernization at the time and his high ambitions looking toward the world are conveyed. Visiting together with his adjacent birthplace, you can deeply learn about his turbulent path and success\u2014how a boy born into a poor farming family rose to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yamaguchi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n