Tsurugi
Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu
Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.
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Iya Vine Bridge
A suspension bridge woven from mountain vine and rebuilt entirely every three years, so the skill can never lapse.
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Ochiai Village
Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.
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Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center
Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.
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Bunka no Mori Park
Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.
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Ryozenji, Temple One
The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.
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Naruto Whirlpools
Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.
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Indigo Merchants of Mima
The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.
Miyoshi
Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya
A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.
TokushimaArchitectureAnan
Anan Coast
A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.
Mugi
Fishing Villages of Mugi
Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.
Naka
Forestry of Naka
Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Blue Stone of Awa
A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.
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The Yoshino River
Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.
Tokushima
Townhouses of Tokushima
A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.
Kamiyama
Satoyama of Kamiyama
Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.
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Awa Kokubunji Garden
Blue schist set upright in ranks - an unusually forceful dry garden of the Momoyama period.
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Awa Jurobe Yashiki
The house behind a famous puppet play, now performing it daily so the handling can be watched at close range.
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The Shikoku Pilgrimage
Eighty-eight temples over 1,400 kilometres, with stone markers turning the distance itself into structure.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Chichu Art Museum
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Benesse House Museum
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Art House Project
Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Lee Ufan Museum
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.