Main sightseeing spots and institutions

• Buzenda Shopping Street (Shinsaku-Dori)

The Buzenda shopping street includes a lot of famous fugu

Fugu

is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it, normally species of genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or porcupinefish of the genus Diodon. Fugu can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin; therefore, it must be carefully prepared to remove toxic parts and to...

restaurants and seafood restaurants, etc.

• Daiso
  Daiso
  is the largest franchise of 100-yen shops in Japan owned by . Daiso has a range of over 100,000 goods, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China. Many of these are own-brand goods....
  
   (100-yen shop
  100-yen shop
  100 Yen Shops are common Japanese shops in the vein of American dollar stores. Stocking a variety of items from clothing to stationery, housewares to food, each item is priced at precisely 100 yen. A recent variation of the 100 Yen Shops are 99 Yen Shops. Daiei also operates 88 Yen stores...
  
  , Over 2,350m²)
• Deodeo
  Deodeo
  is one of the largest consumer electronics retailer chains based in Hiroshima, Japan.-Overview:The company was established in 1947 called "Daiichi Sangyo Kabushiki-gaisha" well known as "Daiichi" in Hiroshima....
  
   (home electronics store)

• Kaikyo Yume Tower
  Kaikyo Yume Tower
  The dominates the city of Shimonoseki and is the tallest tower in western Japan. Standing 153 metres tall, it was opened in July 1996. It forms a part of the Kaikyō Messe Shimonoseki building, which houses a conference centre and corporate offices....
  
   (Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki)

• Toyoko Inn
  Toyoko Inn
  is a chain of no-frills business hotels in Japan, founded in 1986 and expanding rapidly from the 1990s.The company is headquartered in the Kamata section of Ōta, Tokyo, about halfway between the central wards of Tokyo and Yokohama; its name is a portmanteau of the names of Tokyo and Yokohama...
  
   Shimonoseki-eki Higashi-guchi

• Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki International Trade Building
  • YM Securities Co.,Ltd.(head office)
  • NHK
    NHK
    NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
    
     Shimonoseki Branch Office
  • JETRO
    JETRO
    is an independent government agency established by Japan Export Trade Research Organization as a nonprofit corporation in Osaka in February 1951, and reorganized as the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1958 to consolidate Japan's efforts in export promotion...
    
     Yamaguchi
  • Passport Center
  • Yamaguchi Asahi Broadcasting Shimonoseki branch office
• Nishi-chugoku Shinkin Bank(head office)
• Sompo Japan Shimonoseki Building

Festivals

• Shimonoseki Kaikyo Festival (May)
• Kanmon Kaikyo Fireworks Festival (August)
• Shimonoseki Bakan Festival (August)
• Shimonoseki Kaikyo Marathon (November)

Ferries from Shimonoseki Port International Terminal

• The Kanpu ferry to Pusan in South Korea
  South Korea
  The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
  
   regularly.
• The Orient ferry to Qingdao
  Qingdao
  ' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...
  
   in China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
   regularly.
• The Orient ferry to Shanghai
  Shanghai
  Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
  
   in China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
   regularly.

Trains

• Nearby station
  • Shimonoseki Station
    Shimonoseki Station
    is a railway station on the San'yō Main Line, operated by West Japan Railway Company in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. Kyushu Railway Company and Japan Freight Railway Company also use this station....
    
    (Sanyō Main Line)
• Nearby Shinkansen Station
  • Shin-Shimonoseki Station
    Shin-Shimonoseki Station
    is a railway stationon the San'yō Shinkansen and the San'yō Main Line, operated by West Japan Railway Company in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan.-Structure:...
    
    (Sanyō Shinkansen
    Sanyō Shinkansen
    The is a line of the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed rail network, connecting Shin-Ōsaka in Osaka with Hakata Station in Fukuoka, the two largest cities in western Japan...
    
    )

External links

• Shimonoseki official website in Japanese
• Shimonoseki official website in other languages