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Tsunashiki Tenmangu
A legend tells that Michizane stopped at Suma and the fishermen made him a seat from a coil of rope.
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Nunobiki no Taki
One of the three sacred waterfalls of Japan, written into the Tales of Ise and the Kokinshu.
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Kakinomoto Jinja
It enshrines Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, and stands beside the meridian of Japan standard time.
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Kasuga Jinja (Sasayama)
Its Noh stage is an Important Cultural Property. The town of the Dekansho song.
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HyogoShrines & TemplesAwaji
Hi no Michishirube
Suwa Taisha lines up with the summer-solstice sunrise, and Ise Jingu with the spring and autumn equinox sunrise.
Minamiawaji
Yuzuruha Jinja
It stands on the highest peak of Awaji Island, once a sacred mountain of shugendo.
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Horyuji
Held to be the oldest wooden buildings standing anywhere in the world, and in 1993 among the first World Cultural Heritage sites in Japan. Thirteen centuries, and the timber still stands. That is not only a fact about material. It means the people repairing it never once broke the chain.
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Kasuga Taisha
The stone and hanging lanterns along the approach come to about 3,000. These too were all dedicated by worshippers, the same structure as the thousand torii at Fushimi Inari. The deer of Nara Park are held to be the messengers of this shrine's deity, and are a Natural Monument.
NaraShrines & TemplesSakurai
Omiwa Jinja
It has no main hall: Mount Miwa itself is the deity. One of the oldest shrines in Japan, keeping the form of belief that came before worshipping a building. Miwa somen is said to have spread from the method handed down in this shrine's priestly family.
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Toshodaiji
Founded by Jianzhen. After five failed crossings and the loss of his sight, the monk reached Japan and brought the precepts with him. The golden hall is a National Treasure.
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Hasedera (Nara)
Beyond 399 covered steps stands the National Treasure main hall. Famous for peonies, it is called the temple of flowers.
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Tanzan Jinja
Its wooden thirteen-storey pagoda is said to be the only one in the world. The name comes from the spot where Prince Naka no Oe and Nakatomi no Kamatari conferred on the Taika Reform.
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Todaiji Daibutsu
About 15 metres tall. Some 2.6 million people are said to have taken part in casting it.
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Kasugayama Genshirin
Felling has been forbidden here for more than a thousand years. Faith is what left the forest standing.