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Kakegawa-jo
The first fully wooden reconstructed keep in Japan. The Ninomaru palace is an Important Cultural Property.
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Kunozan Toshogu
Ieyasu was first buried here, 19 years before the present Nikko shrine buildings; this is the prototype of the gongen style, atop 1,159 steps. A National Treasure.
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Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Sixty years in the building; twenty-six of its halls are Important Cultural Properties, a rare concentration of late Edo polychromy.
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Namako Walls of Shimoda
Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.
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Namako Walls of Matsuzaki
Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.
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Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha
A two-storey sanctuary in a form found nowhere else, beside the spring where the pilgrim route to the summit begins.
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Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces
The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.
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Egawa Residence
The house of a hereditary magistrate, its great diagonal roof frame left open above the earthen floor.
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Horai Bridge
The world's longest wooden footbridge, built to open tea fields and still re-planked and in use.
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Numazu Imperial Villa Park
An imperial rest villa in timber, every room arranged to look through the pines to the bay.
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Atami Plum Garden and Villas
A spa town of Meiji villas scattered on the slopes, each composed around its view of the sea.
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Shimizu Port
A port built on the tea export trade, its timber and brick warehouses still shaping the waterfront.
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Oi River Crossing
A river the shogunate forbade to be bridged; the offices that organised the human porters have been rebuilt.
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Hamamatsu Castle
Walls of barely worked natural stone remain from the castle where Ieyasu spent seventeen years.
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Modern Villas of Izu
Villas and inns where writers and painters stayed, scattered down the peninsula - modern Japanese leisure in built form.
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Slopes of Atami
A city stacked down a slope to the sea, its stairs and alleys serving as the street plan.
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Omaezaki Lighthouse
One of Richard Brunton's lighthouses, a white cylinder on the point; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tea Houses of Shizuoka
As a tea-growing province it keeps many tea houses - small spaces designed as one with their gardens.