Tottori
Dune Farming and Windbreaks
Belts of black pine planted to stop the sand moving - human lines now defining the dunes' own edges.
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ShimaneContemporary ArtNishinoshima
Kuniga Coast
A caldera rim drowned by the sea and cut into cliffs, with a rock arch left standing in the surf.
ShimaneContemporary ArtMatsue
Sunset over Lake Shinji
The city has built viewing points for the lake sunset - the position from which a landscape is seen, itself designed.
Ōnan
Terraces of Iwami
Terraces built by stacking stone into steep mountain slopes - a record of turning hillside into stairs.
ShimaneContemporary ArtOkinoshima
Oki Geopark
Source of the obsidian carried to the mainland in the Palaeolithic - an island that was a trading origin point.
OkayamaContemporary ArtOkayama
Inujima Art House Project
On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
OkayamaContemporary ArtOkayama
Kofun of the Kibi Road
The fourth-largest keyhole tomb in Japan, and climbable because it is not an imperial grave - evidence Kibi rivalled the capital.
OkayamaContemporary ArtManiwa
Hiruzen Highlands
Grassland kept open by burning it every year - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
Mimasaka
Terraces of Mimasaka
Stone-walled terraces along the mountain valleys, drawing the contours into visible lines.
HiroshimaContemporary Art
HiroshimaContemporary ArtHiroshima
Oyster Rafts of Hiroshima Bay
Rafts laid out in ranks across the bay - four centuries of oyster farming drawing geometry on the water.
HiroshimaContemporary ArtFukuyama
Rose Park, Fukuyama
Residents planted a thousand roses in a burned-out city - an intention to recover, turned into a landscape.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtYamaguchi
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtIwakuni
White Snakes of Iwakuni
A population of white rat snakes bred here; the animal itself is both a natural monument and an object of worship.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtHagi
Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi
Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtNagato
Omijima Coast
Basalt cut by wind and wave into arches and stacks, most of it visible only from a boat.
TokushimaContemporary ArtKamiyama
Kamiyama Artist in Residence
A mountain village of 5,000 that has hosted artists for over twenty years; their works remain scattered through it.
TokushimaContemporary ArtAwa
Awa Earth Pillars
Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.
TokushimaContemporary ArtNaruto
Naruto Whirlpools
Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.
TokushimaContemporary ArtTokushima
Mt Bizan and Tokushima
A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.
Ishii
Indigo Fields of Ishii
Indigo planted where the river floods and enriches the soil - a crop chosen to turn disaster into profit.
Naruto
Salt Making of Naruto
Salt fields once covered this shore; their divisions remain in the land, an industry that stood beside indigo.
TokushimaContemporary ArtMiyoshi
Oboke Gorge
The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Art House Project
Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.