WakayamaArchitectureKushimoto
Kushimoto Coast
One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, standing on the cliffs of Kashinozaki at the eastern end of Kii Oshima.
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WakayamaArchitectureKainan
Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe
The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.
WakayamaArchitectureWakayama
Tomogashima Fortifications
Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.
TottoriArt & CraftsKurayoshi
Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art
A new prefectural museum whose purchase of Warhol's Brillo Boxes became a public argument about what art is worth.
TottoriArchitecture
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Nageiredo of Sanbutsuji
A hall in a cliff hollow that nobody can explain the building of - legend says an ascetic threw it there.
TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Kurayoshi White-Walled Storehouses
White walls and red Sekishu tiles along a canal, each household with its own stone bridge across to its storehouse.
TottoriArt & CraftsHōki
Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography
For the photographer who staged figures on the dunes; a window frames Mt Daisen as if through his own lens.
TottoriArchitecture
TottoriMuseumsDaisen
Mukibanda Site
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
TottoriArchitectureChizu
Ishitani Residence
A timber baron's forty-room house, its earthen hall crossed by tier upon tier of local cedar beams.
TottoriArchitectureChizu
Itaibara Village
A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
TottoriArchitectureWakasa
Wakasa Railway Stations
The original 1930 wooden stations, turntable and water tower survive along the line, listed together.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Misasa Onsen
Water rises in the riverbed and is bathed in where it stands, below three-storey wooden inns.
TottoriArchitectureTottori
Tottori Castle Ruins
A spherical stone bulge was added to hold a failing wall - the only such structure in Japan, engineering turned into form.
TottoriArchitectureTottori
Shikano Castle Town
A castle town of grid streets and running water channels, its lattice fronts still in place.
TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Red-Tiled Streets
Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Pilgrim Path of Mt Mitoku
The path to the cliff hall is climbed by chain and tree root - the visit itself designed as an ordeal.
Hino
Thatched Houses of Nichinan
Thatched houses in the Chugoku mountains, their eaves pulled deep against snow and cold.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Shimane Art Museum
Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
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.
ShimaneArt & CraftsYasugi
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.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.