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Matsue Castle
A National Treasure keep built for war: its columns are wrapped in boards and banded with iron throughout.
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Shiomi Nawate
Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.
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Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.
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Izumo Taisha
The oldest shrine form in Japan; giant triple pillars dug up here support the claim that it once stood 48 metres tall.
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Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
Oda
Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
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Iwami Art Museum, Grand Toit
Hiroshi Naito clad walls and roof alike in 280,000 local red tiles, wrapped around a courtyard pool.
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Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
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Tsuwano Historic District
Carp swim in the channels beside the street of this castle town, its plan unchanged in a narrow mountain basin.
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Anno Art Museum
For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.
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Mori Ogai Memorial Museum
For the army surgeon and novelist; the house he lived in until he was ten stands beside it.
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Taikodani Inari Shrine
A thousand vermilion gates climb the hillside in a single line above the town.
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Sugaya Tatara Works
The only surviving furnace house of its kind, at the centre of a whole village built around making iron.
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Former Taisha Station
Built to receive shrine pilgrims, so the station was designed as a temple rather than in Western style.
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Hinomisaki Shrine and Lighthouse
A vermilion shrine and a 43-metre stone lighthouse - Japan's tallest - on the same headland.
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Red Tiles of Izumo
Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.
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Canals of Matsue
The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.
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Kumagai Residence
A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.
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Boatbuilding of Oki
Boats built from island timber, the curve of the hull adjusted to the sea each village works.