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Izumo
Tachikuekyo
Columnar rocks stand in ranks, and it is called the Yabakei of the San'in coast. Five hundred rakan are enshrined here.
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Karakama Jinja
You worship by squeezing through a cleft in the rock 45 centimetres wide. A deity of ironworking.
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Kanbara Jinja
A bronze mirror inscribed with the year Jingchu 3 was excavated from a burial mound here.
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Iwami Kagura
Known for its Yamata-no-Orochi piece. A local performing art danced through the night.
Izumo
Kamiarisai
In the tenth lunar month the gods of all Japan gather in Izumo. What is the month without gods elsewhere is the month with gods here.
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Iwami Ginzan
It was recognised for taking silver without wrecking the environment. At one point Japan held about a third of the world's silver, much of it produced here.
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Adachi Museum
It has topped an American magazine's ranking of Japanese gardens for over twenty years. The windows are treated as picture frames.
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Kuniga Coast
Matengai cliff, 257 metres high. Cattle and horses graze on the clifftop.
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Yunotsu Onsen
A spa town that was also the port from which silver was shipped. The only hot spring town designated a preservation district.
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Horikawa Cruise
You circle the castle moat by small boat. At the low bridges the roof comes down.
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Shimane Art Museum
Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.
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Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.
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Adachi Museum of Art
Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.
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Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.