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Heijokyu

The Suzakumon and the Daigokuden have been rebuilt. The frame of the old capital survives as open ground.

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Naramachi

A town that grew up on the old grounds of Gangoji. Migawari-zaru charms hang from the eaves.

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Todaiji

Among the largest wooden buildings on earth; its 8.4-metre guardians were carved by Unkei, Kaikei and their workshop in 69 days.

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Shosoin

A storehouse of stacked triangular beams that has kept Persian and Tang objects safe for thirteen centuries.

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Yakushiji

Its east pagoda has three storeys but reads as six, its skirt roofs giving the rhythm once called frozen music.

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Toshodaiji

Founded by Ganjin, who reached Japan blind on his sixth attempt; its main hall is the only Nara-period one surviving complete.

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Gangoji

Japan's oldest roof tiles are still on this roof - made in 588 and shedding rain for fourteen centuries.

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Shinyakushiji

Twelve guardian figures ringing the icon on a circular platform, some still bearing their 8th-century paint.

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Ikaruga

Horyuji

The only 7th-century wooden buildings surviving anywhere; hall and pagoda set asymmetrically inside one cloister.

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Ikaruga

Hokiji

The oldest three-storey pagoda standing in Japan, inscribed as World Heritage with Horyuji.

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Kashihara

Imai-cho

Eight in ten of its houses date from the Edo period - a moated free town said to have held most of the province's money.

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Sakurai

Hasedera

A roofed stair of 399 steps precedes the hall; the icon inside is over ten metres tall, and can only be looked up at.

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Sakurai

Tanzan Shrine

The only thirteen-storey wooden pagoda in the world, seventeen metres of stacked roofs on a mountainside.

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Sakurai

Omiwa Shrine

There is no inner sanctuary: past the worship hall stands the mountain itself, the oldest form of Japanese shrine.

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Uda

Muroji

Its 16-metre pagoda is the smallest outdoor one in Japan; the temple admitted women, and was called the women's Koyasan.

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Uda

Uda Matsuyama

A castle town enriched by the medicine trade, its apothecary houses still lining the highway.

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Katsuragi

Taimadera

The only temple keeping both its original pagodas, and enshrining a mandala said to be woven from lotus thread.

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Yoshino

Kinpusenji Zaodo

Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.

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Gojō

Gojo Shinmachi

Includes the oldest dated private house in Japan, its ridge tag reading 1607.

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Takatori

Takatori Tosa District

Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a town enriched by travelling medicine sellers.

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Yagyu Village

Home of the Yagyu swordsmen, with a boulder split clean in two that legend says was cut by a blade.

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Isuien and Daijoin Gardens

Two gardens of different centuries joined into one, borrowing the Todaiji gate and the hills as its scenery.