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Sahimeyama Jinja
The guardian deity of the mine, enshrined at the heart of the Iwami silver mine.
Iwami Ginzan
It was recognised for taking silver without wrecking the environment. At one point Japan held about a third of the world's silver, much of it produced here.
Yunotsu Onsen
A spa town that was also the port from which silver was shipped. The only hot spring town designated a preservation district.
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
Kumagai Residence
A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.