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Nyonindo and the Women's Path
While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.
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Gobo Temple Town
A town grown around a temple, its grid plan still legible in the streets.
WakayamaArchitectureKushimoto
Kushimoto Coast
One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, standing on the cliffs of Kashinozaki at the eastern end of Kii Oshima.
Kainan
Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe
The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.
WakayamaArchitectureWakayama
Tomogashima Fortifications
Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.
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TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Nageiredo of Sanbutsuji
A hall in a cliff hollow that nobody can explain the building of - legend says an ascetic threw it there.
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TottoriArchitectureChizu
Ishitani Residence
A timber baron's forty-room house, its earthen hall crossed by tier upon tier of local cedar beams.
TottoriArchitectureChizu
Itaibara Village
A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
TottoriArchitectureWakasa
Wakasa Railway Stations
The original 1930 wooden stations, turntable and water tower survive along the line, listed together.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Misasa Onsen
Water rises in the riverbed and is bathed in where it stands, below three-storey wooden inns.
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Tottori Castle Ruins
A spherical stone bulge was added to hold a failing wall - the only such structure in Japan, engineering turned into form.
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Shikano Castle Town
A castle town of grid streets and running water channels, its lattice fronts still in place.
TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Red-Tiled Streets
Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Pilgrim Path of Mt Mitoku
The path to the cliff hall is climbed by chain and tree root - the visit itself designed as an ordeal.
Hino
Thatched Houses of Nichinan
Thatched houses in the Chugoku mountains, their eaves pulled deep against snow and cold.
ShimaneArchitectureMatsue
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.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Izumo Taisha
The oldest shrine form in Japan; giant triple pillars dug up here support the claim that it once stood 48 metres tall.
ShimaneArchitectureOda
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
Oda
Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
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