Kurobe
Aimotobashi
A cantilever bridge that once spanned the Kurobe river, with a legend of a princess and a great serpent.
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Uozu Shinkiro
A coast where mirages appear. With the buried forest, it was long an object of awe.
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Kurobe Dam
At 186 metres, the tallest in Japan. It took seven years to build, and 171 people died.
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Owara Kaze no Bon
For three days and nights the hill town dances in silence. The kokyu fiddle carries through the streets.
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Iwase District and Mori House
A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.
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Kanayamachi District
The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.
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Yamachosuji District
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.
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Gokayama Gassho Villages
Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.
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Toyama Civic Hall
Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.
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Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe
A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.
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Uchikawa Canal
Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.
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Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge
Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.
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Hillside Streets of Yatsuo
Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.
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Fugan Canal Park
A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.
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Inami Streets
Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.
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Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.
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Mori Residence, Iwase Shipping Agent
Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.
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Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.