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Ochiai Village
Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.
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Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center
Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.
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Bunka no Mori Park
Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.
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Ryozenji, Temple One
The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.
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Indigo Merchants of Mima
The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.
Miyoshi
Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya
A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.
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Anan Coast
A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.
Mugi
Fishing Villages of Mugi
Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.
Naka
Forestry of Naka
Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.
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The Yoshino River
Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.
Tokushima
Townhouses of Tokushima
A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.
Kamiyama
Satoyama of Kamiyama
Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.
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Awa Kokubunji Garden
Blue schist set upright in ranks - an unusually forceful dry garden of the Momoyama period.
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The Shikoku Pilgrimage
Eighty-eight temples over 1,400 kilometres, with stone markers turning the distance itself into structure.
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Takamatsu Castle
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
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Shikoku Mura
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
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Nakazu Banshoen
A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.
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Kotohiragu
Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main hall, and rooms painted by Maruyama Okyo at the top of them.
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Kanamaruza Theatre
Japan's oldest surviving playhouse; its revolve and traps are still turned by men working under the stage.
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Hiketa District
A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.
Shodoshima
Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima
Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.
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Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima
Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.