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Yaegaki Jinja
It enshrines Susanoo and Kushinadahime. Known for the paper fortune floated on the Mirror Pond in its grounds.
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Kamosu Jinja
Its main hall is a National Treasure, and is held to be the oldest surviving building in the taisha-zukuri style. It keeps an older form than Izumo Taisha.
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Miho Jinja
The head shrine of Ebisu, the deity Kotoshironushi. Custom is to pair a visit here with one to Izumo Taisha.
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Sada Jinja
An unusual arrangement of three halls standing side by side. Sada Shin Noh is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Sakusame no Mori
The forest holding the Mirror Pond. Said to be where Susanoo hid Kushinadahime.
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Kagami no Ike
You float a paper with a coin on it: the sooner it sinks, the sooner your match will come.
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Kumano Taisha
It claims to be the shrine where fire was first made in Japan. The rite of handing the fire drill to Izumo Taisha continues.
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Rokusho Jinja
The soja of Izumo Province, close to the site of the provincial government.
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Horikawa Cruise
You circle the castle moat by small boat. At the low bridges the roof comes down.
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Shimane Art Museum
Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.
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Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.
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Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.
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Shiomi Nawate
Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.
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Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.
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Yakumo Lacquerware
Pictures painted in coloured lacquer and covered with clear coats; as the years pass the top clears and the picture brightens.
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Fujina Ware
Its slip technique resembles English country pottery; Bernard Leach came here, and the exchange went both ways.
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