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Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.
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Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
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Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
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Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.
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Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Kenzo Tange set it on axis with the Atomic Dome and lifted it on columns, so passing beneath frames the ruin ahead.
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Atomic Bomb Dome
A Czech architect's exhibition hall, left as a steel skeleton beside the hypocentre and, after long argument, kept.
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Peace Memorial Park
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
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World Peace Memorial Cathedral
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
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Hiroshima Castle
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
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Itsukushima Shrine
Taira no Kiyomori built it on the sea itself; at high tide it floats, at low tide it stands on sand - two buildings in a day.
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Onomichi City Museum of Art
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
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Hillside Town of Onomichi
Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.
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Takehara Historic District
A town rich on salt and sake, its houses each with a differently spaced lattice front.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsMiyoshi
Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
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Saijo Sake Brewery Street
Seven breweries along one kilometre, their red tiles, white walls and brick chimneys repeating down the street.
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Yamato Museum
On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.
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Irifuneyama Memorial Museum
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.