Tanba-Sasayama
Sasayama Historic District
A castle town with two preservation districts, one merchant and one samurai, its shops presenting gable ends to the street.
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Yodoko Guest House
One of only four Wright buildings left in Japan and the only house, its Oya stone carved in continuous geometric bands.
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Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
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Kinosaki Onsen
Inns were kept small and baths kept public, so the street works as the corridor of one large shared building.
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Water Temple, Honpukuji
Stairs descend through the middle of a lotus pond into a hall beneath the water, its vermilion interior filled by the setting sun.
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Awaji Yumebutai
Built where a hill was quarried away for landfill: a hundred stepped flower beds attempting to remake the destroyed terrain.
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Tatsuno Soy Sauce Town
Where light soy sauce was invented; white-walled brewhouses line the river and make the town's face.
Kobe
Port Architecture of Kobe
The old foreign settlement keeps its office blocks, most now reinforced after the earthquake but outwardly unchanged.
Toyooka
Thatched Houses of Tajima and Tamba
Farmhouses whose roofs were raised for silkworms; snow load and the worms' temperature together set the shape.
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Former Spinning Mills of Sumoto
A brick spinning mill converted into a library and shops - a case of industrial reuse.
Kobe
Churches of Kobe
Churches of many denominations arrived with the port; many fell in 1995, and their rebuilding shows its own era.
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Kokoen Garden
Nine separate gardens divided by earthen walls, laid over the excavated foundations of samurai houses.
Nishiwaki
Saw-Tooth Mills of Nishiwaki
Roofs shaped to catch even north light for weaving, running along the river - form dictated by the trade.
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Toshodaiji
Founded by Ganjin, who reached Japan blind on his sixth attempt; its main hall is the only Nara-period one surviving complete.
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Shinyakushiji
Twelve guardian figures ringing the icon on a circular platform, some still bearing their 8th-century paint.
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NaraArchitectureSakurai
Tanzan Shrine
The only thirteen-storey wooden pagoda in the world, seventeen metres of stacked roofs on a mountainside.