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Nakayama Jinja
First shrine of Mimasaka Province, with a main hall in its own nakayama-zukuri style.
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Tokumori Jinja
The tutelary shrine of the Tsuyama castle town. Its portable shrine is one of the three great mikoshi of Japan.
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Nakayama Jinja
A tale of subduing a monkey deity survives in the Konjaku Monogatari. It is also a guardian of cattle and horses.
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Joto District, Tsuyama
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
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Tsuyama Museum of Western Learning
This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.
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Sakushu Kasuri
Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.
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Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.