Kurashiki
Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
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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.
OkayamaArchitectureTsuyama
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.
OkayamaArchitectureOkayama
Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
Setouchi
Bizen Swords
The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.
Takahashi
Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.
Mimasaka
Terraces of Mimasaka
Stone-walled terraces along the mountain valleys, drawing the contours into visible lines.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Museum of Art
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
HiroshimaArchitectureHiroshima
Peace Memorial Park
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
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HiroshimaArchitectureHiroshima
World Peace Memorial Cathedral
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
HiroshimaArchitectureHiroshima
Hiroshima Castle
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
HiroshimaMuseumsHiroshima
Rai Sanyo Museum
The study of the historian Rai Sanyo survived the bomb; his calligraphy and Chinese verse are kept here.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHatsukaichi
Miyajima Woodcraft
Said to begin with rice paddles shaped after a goddess's lute; the trade covers both turning and carving.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Onomichi City Museum of Art
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
HiroshimaArchitectureOnomichi
Hillside Town of Onomichi
Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsFukuyama
Fukuyama Museum of Art
Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsMiyoshi
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.
Miyoshi
Miyoshi Clay Dolls
Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.