I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my

passport photo.

I'm with your traveler episode 743. Today the amateur traveler talks about

castles and waterfalls, samurai and sushi, Tory gates and temples as we go to the Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Yamaguchi. I'd like to welcome the show Corinne Devon who has come to us to talk to about the

Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. Corinne welcome to the show. Thank you for having

me Chris. I am delighted to be here.

Well, we should say first, what is your connection with the area of Japan we're talking about?

So I am actually a United States Naval Officer, and this is actually my second tour in Japan.

My first tour brought me to the Kanagawa Prefecture at the Naval Station,

Yokoska, and this time I have come down to Iwakuni, which is located in the Yamaguchi prefecture with the Marine

Court Air Station Iwakuni.

And so these views are my views, not the views of the Department of Defense, but I simply want

to share with your listeners a part of Japan that I feel most

people don't know much about that has a lot of beauty and hidden gems that I

cannot wait to share with your audience on the show. Excellent and we don't know that the Marine Corps even has views on what you should see as a tourist.

So I think people are willing to take your word for that.

And can you put us on a map?

We mentioned that we've gone down to, so we've given some indication that you're in more southern Japan than we were two weeks ago, for instance, when we talked about the Tohoku prefecture at the top of the main island.

So if you look at the country of Japan, the country itself is probably the size of

about California with a third of the population of the United States just to give you an idea.

And so it though it's very densely populated the country of Japan is very well organized and if you

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