Otsurugi Jinja
The second highest peak in western Japan. The Ototo rock near the summit is the deity.
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The second highest peak in western Japan. The Ototo rock near the summit is the deity.
Called the inner sanctuary of Konpira. The main hall and five other buildings are Important Cultural Properties.
The main hall and five other buildings are Important Cultural Properties. A ropeway runs up.
A suspension bridge woven from hardy kiwi vine. It is rebuilt every three years.
A gorge the Yoshino river took 200 million years to cut. A noted spot for rafting.
Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.
A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.
Indigo money paid for the floats; the carving and embroidery record the merchants' wealth.
The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.