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Akihasan Hongu Akiha Jinja
The head shrine of the deity of fire prevention. Because Edo burned so often, the faith spread nationwide, and it is the origin of place names such as Akihabara and Akiba-cho across the country.
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Akiha Josha
A golden torii stands here. As the head shrine of fire prevention, its faith spread across the country.
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Hamamatsu Hachimangu
Here stands the Kumotachi camphor, in which Ieyasu is said to have hidden after his defeat by the Takeda at Mikatagahara.
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Hamamatsu Matsuri
On the Nakatajima dunes, great kites from 170 districts cut one another's lines.
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Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art
In the castle park, with prints and maps of the Tokaido highway through this town.
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Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
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Akino Fuku Museum
For a Nihonga painter who kept returning to India; Fujimori built it of earth and paper, and visitors walk it barefoot.
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Enshu Textiles
One of Japan's three great cotton districts, where mills deliberately keep old shuttle looms to weave a slower, thicker cloth.
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Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
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Hamamatsu Castle
Walls of barely worked natural stone remain from the castle where Ieyasu spent seventeen years.
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Instrument Making of Hamamatsu
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.