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Marugame-jo
A surviving keep, and the smallest in Japan. Its stone walls are said to be the highest.
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Ritsurin Koen
The largest garden in Japan designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty. It borrows Mount Shiun as scenery.
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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.
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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.
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Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.
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Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
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Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
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Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
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Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.