Shimonoseki & Kanmon articles
Shimonoseki & Kanmon local-knowledge articles — history, food and place names, with sources. Prep for "Kanmon Expert Quiz".
- Take the Shimonoseki & Kanmon quizDannoura in 1185, the Shimonoseki War and the Kiheitai, the 1895 treaty: why this Kanmon Strait port kept becoming a site of history.
- Take the Shimonoseki & Kanmon quizA tide that reverses four times daily, a walkable seabed tunnel, a five-minute ferry, Ganryujima and Tsunoshima: how the strait works.
- Take the Shimonoseki & Kanmon quizTwo dawn markets, the ban and lifting of fugu, bag auctions, the whaling-city era and kawara soba: Shimonoseki’s food and how it came about.
- Take the Shimonoseki & Kanmon quizAkamagaseki, Bakan, Kanmon, fuku, Funashima, Little Busan and Yamaguchi dialect: the names Shimonoseki has carried and where they come from.