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Matsumoto-jo
A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. The black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle.
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Narai-juku
A post town once called Narai of a thousand houses, and a producer of Kiso lacquerware.
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Tsumago-juku
The first post town in Japan to take up townscape preservation. The power lines were hidden away.
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Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
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Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.
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Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
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Obuse Townscape Project
Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.
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Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial
Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.
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Former Mikasa Hotel
A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
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Storehouse Town of Suzaka
Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.
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Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.
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Kiso Cypress Forest
A forest saved by the Owari domain's strict felling ban; the timber for Ise Shrine's rebuilding still comes from here.