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Saba Daishi
It preserves the custom of saba-dachi, giving up salted mackerel while making a vow.
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Sea Turtles and Shrine at Ohama Coast, Hiwasa
A nesting ground for loggerhead turtles. A land that reveres what the sea gives.
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Hashikuraji
The main hall and five other buildings are Important Cultural Properties. A ropeway runs up.
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Iya no Kazurabashi
A suspension bridge woven from hardy kiwi vine. It is rebuilt every three years.
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Naruto no Uzushio
Among the largest whirlpools in the world. The current reaches 20 kilometres an hour.
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Oboke Koboke
A gorge the Yoshino river took 200 million years to cut. A noted spot for rafting.
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Ai no Yakata
Awa indigo carried the blue of Japan. The house of an indigo maker is open to visitors.
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Otsuka Museum
A thousand masterpieces from around the world, reproduced full size on ceramic panels. You may touch them and take photographs.
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The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Collecting on three axes - the human figure, this province, and the present - centred on how the body was depicted in the 20th century.
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Awa Indigo
Indigo leaves composted into sukumo; only a handful of makers remain, and most Japanese indigo dyeing still depends on them.
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Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum
In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.
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Awa Shijira Cloth
Woven at uneven tension and then shrunk, so the surface puckers and touches the skin less - a cloth for heat.