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Hotsumisakiji
Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.
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Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
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Hirome Market
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
Shimanto
Thatched Villages of the Shimanto
Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.
KochiArchitectureAki
Doi Kachu, Aki
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.
Yusuhara
Tea Halls of Yusuhara
Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.
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Kochi Castle Town
Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.
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Sakawa Brewery Town
A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.
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Fishing Villages of Nakatosa
A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.
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Dazaifu Tenmangu
Head shrine of all Tenmangu; its temporary hall, by Sou Fujimoto, carries a living grove on its roof.
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Kushida Shrine
Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.
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Imperial Steel Works, Yahata
Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.
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Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit
The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.
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Canals of Yanagawa
Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.
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Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana
A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
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Former Ito Denemon Residence
A coal magnate's mansion, keeping the rooms and garden he prepared for his poet wife.
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ACROS Fukuoka
Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.
Fukuoka
Nexus World
Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.
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Miyajidake Shrine
Twice a year the setting sun lines up exactly with the approach, laying a band of light to the sea.
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Canal City Hakata
A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.
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Hakata Machiya Folk Museum
A relocated Meiji weaver's house, with hand-weaving and top-spinning demonstrated inside it.
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Ohori Park
A castle moat turned park, modelled on West Lake in China, crossed by islands and bridges.