ShimaneArchitectureMasuda
Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
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Taikodani Inari Shrine
A thousand vermilion gates climb the hillside in a single line above the town.
Unnan
Sugaya Tatara Works
The only surviving furnace house of its kind, at the centre of a whole village built around making iron.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Former Taisha Station
Built to receive shrine pilgrims, so the station was designed as a temple rather than in Western style.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Hinomisaki Shrine and Lighthouse
A vermilion shrine and a 43-metre stone lighthouse - Japan's tallest - on the same headland.
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ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Red Tiles of Izumo
Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.
Matsue
Canals of Matsue
The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.
ShimaneArchitectureOda
Kumagai Residence
A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.
ShimaneArchitectureHamada
Port of Hamada
The port that shipped the great Sekishu jars out to all Japan, and prospered on the northern trade.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
OkayamaArchitectureOkayama
Kibitsu Shrine
Two hipped-gable roofs joined side by side in a form found in only this one building, with a 360-metre corridor down the hill.
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OkayamaArchitectureTsuyama
Joto District, Tsuyama
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
OkayamaArchitectureTakahashi
Hirokane Residence
Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.
OkayamaArchitectureTakahashi
Raikyuji Garden
An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.
OkayamaArchitectureYakage
Yakage-juku
The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
OkayamaArchitectureSoja
Bitchu Kokubunji
A five-storey pagoda standing alone in farmland, an Edo tower on a Nara temple site - two eras in one view.
OkayamaArchitectureManiwa
Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
Kurashiki
Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
OkayamaArchitectureTsuyama
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.