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Located halfway between the shinkansen stops of Iwakuni and Tokuyama, Yanai is a small mercantile and port city with a long history, some of which is still very well preserved in old Edo-era buildings. The historic section of town is easy to get to: exiting from the station it’s just a few minutes’ walk to cross the main river (not very large) and then you can find Edo- and Meiji-period buildings lined up along it. Among other buildings, Yanai has an old residence as well as a merchant’s shop, both very well preserved. Walking along the white walls and seeing the old-style shutters closed over the buildings’ windows, you get a real sense that you’ve traveled backwards in time.		  
     
 
For those who prefer to get out to the beach, Yanai is also a good staging point for sandy locales close by. Hikari, just four short stops down the track, has a nice beach with public changing rooms. And if you’d like to get off the mainland, take a bus over the bridge to Oshima, the largest island in Yamaguchi prefecture. Oshima is known as a resort spot, and has several first-class hotels and spas. Elsewhere on the island the rhythms of life are slow, and the residents are very friendly…but then this is true of Yanai as well. If your image of Japan is hectic, bustling Tokyo, a trip to Yanai will show you that in many parts of the country life still proceeds at a leisurely pace. 		 
     
 
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