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Oya Stone Buildings
The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.
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Nikko Toshogu
Over 5,000 carvings smother these halls in gold and colour - the summit of Japanese decorative architecture.
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Rinnoji Taiyuin
Iemitsu's mausoleum answers Toshogu's brilliance with restraint - black and gold, and 315 lanterns on the slope.
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Nikko Kanaya Hotel
Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.
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Tamozawa Imperial Villa
An Edo merchant house, a Meiji villa and a Taisho wing joined into one 106-room building.
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Former Italian Embassy Villa
Antonin Raymond clad this lakeside villa in cedar bark laid in a checkerboard - geometry from raw material.
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Former British Embassy Villa
Built by the diplomat Ernest Satow, the villa that made Nikko an international summer resort.
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Tochigi Storehouse Town
A river-trade town of white-walled storehouses, nicknamed 'little Edo'.
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Okada Memorial Museum
The estate of a family of village heads for 550 years, its sukiya-style annex exceptional in materials.
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Nogi Brick Kiln
A sixteen-sided Hoffmann kiln for continuous brick firing - one of only four left in Japan.
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Matsugamine Catholic Church
A Romanesque church built of Oya stone, among the largest surviving Oya-stone buildings and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
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Nikko Temple Town
A pilgrimage town whose inns and shopfronts layer centuries of visitors.
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Uzuma River and Black Fences
Black fences run the length of the river - a logistics structure that became the town's face.
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Moka Railway Steam Locomotive
A station built in the shape of a steam locomotive - machinery translated into architecture.