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Among the oldest hot springs in Japan. It has the Yushinden, a bath reserved for the imperial family.
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Imabari-jo
One of the three great water castles of Japan, with seawater drawn into its moat.
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Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
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Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
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Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
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Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
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Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
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Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
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Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
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Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
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Kirosan Observatory
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
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Uwa Rice Museum
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
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Ozu Historic Streets
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
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Shipyards of Imabari
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.
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Pilgrimage Temples of Nanyo
The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.