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Shiomi Nawate
Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.
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Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.
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Izumo Taisha
The oldest shrine form in Japan; giant triple pillars dug up here support the claim that it once stood 48 metres tall.
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Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
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Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
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Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
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Taikodani Inari Shrine
A thousand vermilion gates climb the hillside in a single line above the town.
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Sugaya Tatara Works
The only surviving furnace house of its kind, at the centre of a whole village built around making iron.
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Former Taisha Station
Built to receive shrine pilgrims, so the station was designed as a temple rather than in Western style.
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Hinomisaki Shrine and Lighthouse
A vermilion shrine and a 43-metre stone lighthouse - Japan's tallest - on the same headland.
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Red Tiles of Izumo
Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.
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Canals of Matsue
The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.
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Kumagai Residence
A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.
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Port of Hamada
The port that shipped the great Sekishu jars out to all Japan, and prospered on the northern trade.