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Omiwa Shrine
There is no inner sanctuary: past the worship hall stands the mountain itself, the oldest form of Japanese shrine.
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Uda Matsuyama
A castle town enriched by the medicine trade, its apothecary houses still lining the highway.
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Kinpusenji Zaodo
Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.
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Gojo Shinmachi
Includes the oldest dated private house in Japan, its ridge tag reading 1607.
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Takatori Tosa District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a town enriched by travelling medicine sellers.
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Yagyu Village
Home of the Yagyu swordsmen, with a boulder split clean in two that legend says was cut by a blade.
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Isuien and Daijoin Gardens
Two gardens of different centuries joined into one, borrowing the Todaiji gate and the hills as its scenery.
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Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan
Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.
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Kongo Sanmaiin
A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.
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Kokawadera
A Momoyama garden of massive upright stones built into the slope before the hall - a composition without parallel.
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Kumano Hongu Taisha
The centre of the Kumano shrines; on the old river-island site now stands only a 34-metre torii.
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Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji
A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.
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Kumano Kodo Nakahechi
A pilgrim road walked by emperors and peasants alike, its ninety-nine wayside shrines turning distance into devotion.
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Fudarakusanji
From here monks were sealed alive into small boats and set adrift toward the southern sea; a replica boat stands in the grounds.
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Niutsuhime Shrine
Dedicated to the deity said to have granted the land for Koyasan; its arched vermilion bridge stands in a mountain clearing.
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Jisonin and the Choishi Michi
Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.
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Kuroe District
Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.
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Yuasa Historic District
Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.
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Kamikura Shrine
A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.
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Temple Lodgings of Koyasan
Around fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.