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World Peace Memorial Cathedral
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
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Hiroshima Castle
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
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Rai Sanyo Museum
The study of the historian Rai Sanyo survived the bomb; his calligraphy and Chinese verse are kept here.
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Miyajima Woodcraft
Said to begin with rice paddles shaped after a goddess's lute; the trade covers both turning and carving.
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Onomichi City Museum of Art
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
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Hillside Town of Onomichi
Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.
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Fukuyama Museum of Art
Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.
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Takehara Historic District
A town rich on salt and sake, its houses each with a differently spaced lattice front.
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Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
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Miyoshi Clay Dolls
Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.
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Saijo Sake Brewery Street
Seven breweries along one kilometre, their red tiles, white walls and brick chimneys repeating down the street.
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Yamato Museum
On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.
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Irifuneyama Memorial Museum
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.
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Kumano Brushes
Eight in ten Japanese brushes; the hair tips are never cut, so the point forms itself.
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Kawajiri Brushes
Hair blended in water rather than dry; a brush town specialising in calligraphy alongside Kumano.
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Fuchu Furniture
A wedding-furniture town where the trades divide the work and compete on the precision of the joinery.
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Bingo Kasuri
One of Japan's three great kasuri districts; its toughness made it workwear, and the town later turned to denim.
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Fukuyama Koto
Over sixty percent of Japan's koto; the sound is cut into the paulownia body as a pattern of grooves inside the lid.
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Hirayama Ikuo Museum of Art
Born on this island and a survivor of the bomb; the museum runs from his boyhood sketches to his last large works.
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Kosanji and the Hill of Hope
A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.
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Shimanami Kaido Bridges
Seven bridges hopping island to island, each a different structural type - a working catalogue of bridge form.
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Surviving Bomb-Damaged Buildings
Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple