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Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
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Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
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Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.
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Peace Memorial Park
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
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World Peace Memorial Cathedral
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
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Hiroshima Castle
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
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Itsukushima Shrine
Taira no Kiyomori built it on the sea itself; at high tide it floats, at low tide it stands on sand - two buildings in a day.
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Hillside Town of Onomichi
Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.
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Saijo Sake Brewery Street
Seven breweries along one kilometre, their red tiles, white walls and brick chimneys repeating down the street.
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Irifuneyama Memorial Museum
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.
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Kosanji and the Hill of Hope
A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.
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Shimanami Kaido Bridges
Seven bridges hopping island to island, each a different structural type - a working catalogue of bridge form.
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Surviving Bomb-Damaged Buildings
Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.
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Mihara Castle Town
Called the floating castle because the tide reached its walls; the stonework now sits beneath the railway station.
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Former Naval Academy, Etajima
A naval academy built from bricks shipped in from England, its identical blocks a finished form of Meiji officialdom.
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Okunoshima Ruins
An island once erased from maps; the concrete remains of its poison-gas works are kept, overgrown, as record.
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Great Torii of Itsukushima
Not sunk into the seabed but held by the weight of stones packed into the box-like shimagi and kasagi beams - so it can be lifted out and replaced.
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Fukuyama Castle
A turret moved here from Fushimi survives; its keep was armoured with iron plate on the north face alone.
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Shipyards of Kure
The docks that built battleships still work; the rank of giant cranes states the scale directly.