HiroshimaArchitectureOnomichi
Kosanji and the Hill of Hope
A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.
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Shimanami Kaido Bridges
Seven bridges hopping island to island, each a different structural type - a working catalogue of bridge form.
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Surviving Bomb-Damaged Buildings
Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.
HiroshimaArchitectureMihara
Mihara Castle Town
Called the floating castle because the tide reached its walls; the stonework now sits beneath the railway station.
HiroshimaArchitectureEtajima
Former Naval Academy, Etajima
A naval academy built from bricks shipped in from England, its identical blocks a finished form of Meiji officialdom.
HiroshimaArchitectureTakehara
Okunoshima Ruins
An island once erased from maps; the concrete remains of its poison-gas works are kept, overgrown, as record.
HiroshimaArchitectureHatsukaichi
Great Torii of Itsukushima
Not sunk into the seabed but held by the weight of stones packed into the box-like shimagi and kasagi beams - so it can be lifted out and replaced.
HiroshimaArchitectureFukuyama
Fukuyama Castle
A turret moved here from Fushimi survives; its keep was armoured with iron plate on the north face alone.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Onomichi in Film
Filmed again and again from Ozu onward; the same slope and level crossing keep reappearing in different decades.
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Shipyards of Kure
The docks that built battleships still work; the rank of giant cranes states the scale directly.
Onomichi
Warehouse Reuse in Onomichi
Harbour warehouses and abandoned hillside houses repaired one at a time by residents - preservation by accumulation.
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Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
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Rurikoji Pagoda
One of Japan's three finest pagodas; its cypress-bark roofs thin and curve as the storeys taper upward.
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Sesshu Garden, Joeiji
Attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, and read as applying the composition of painting to stone and water.
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Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Hagi Castle Town
An Edo map still works as a street map here; the citrus behind every wall was planted to support unemployed samurai.
YamaguchiMuseumsHagi
Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
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Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
YamaguchiArchitectureIwakuni
Kintaikyo Bridge
Five wooden arches built to survive floods, assembled almost without nails and rebuilt every twenty years.
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Iwakuni Castle
A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.