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Enryakuji Konpon Chudo
The Tendai head temple, where the icon sits below the worshippers so the two meet at eye level - a section found nowhere else.
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Ishiyamadera
Halls built on a mass of wollastonite rock; its pagoda is the oldest of its type, and Murasaki is said to have begun Genji here.
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Hiyoshi Taisha
A shrine form unique to this site, with a raised underfloor space and eaves extending on three sides.
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Lake Biwa Canal
Designed by a 23-year-old engineer: a tunnel bored through the mountains and an incline that hauled boats up the slope on rails.
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Ukimido, Katata
A hall projecting out over the lake, drawn by Hiroshige - a composition made of nothing but water and architecture.
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Vories Buildings in Omihachiman
A missionary who came to teach English and ended up designing 1,600 buildings; this town was his base.
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La Collina Omihachiman
Terunobu Fujimori planted the roof with grass and studded the walls with charcoal - an experiment in blurring plant and building.
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Azuchi Castle Ruins
Nobunaga's castle, the first with a true keep; a six-metre stairway drives straight up the hill as a demonstration of power.
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Gokasho Merchant Houses
The home houses of merchants who traded nationwide under a creed of benefit to seller, buyer and society alike.
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Hogonji, Chikubushima
A Momoyama gate and hall clamped to the slope of an island, extended and relocated until the architecture grips the hillside.
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The Three Mountain Temples of Koto
Three ancient temples along one mountain foot; the halls that escaped Nobunaga's burnings are National Treasures.
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Former Toyosato Elementary School
Vories's 'finest school in the East'; up the stair rail, the hare and the tortoise change position step by step.
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Kusatsu-juku Honjin
The official inn where the two great highways divide, surviving intact - with the register of who slept there and when.
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Samegai-juku
A spring-fed stream runs before every house on the old highway, its underwater flowers marking the water's purity.
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Taga Taisha
Hideyoshi endowed it praying for his mother's life; its steep stone bridge and study garden are designated scenic.
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Shirahige Shrine
A vermilion gate standing in the lake itself; water and gate alone complete the composition.
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Kabata of Harie
Spring water piped into each kitchen and used in strict order - drinking, washing, then carp - the plan of the house set by water.
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Hino Merchants and Sajiki Windows
Windows cut into garden walls so the family could watch the festival floats - a whole town designed as seating.
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Castle Town of Hikone
Townhouses along the outer moat, their eaves and wall colours realigned in recent years to recover the Edo scale.