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Matsuyama Castle
One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.
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Dogo Onsen Honkan
A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.
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Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo
Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
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Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
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Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
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Uchikoza Theatre
Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.
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Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
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Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
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Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
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Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
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Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
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Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
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Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
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Ehime Museum of History and Culture
A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.
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Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
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Kirosan Observatory
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
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Imabari Castle
Built on the sea with saltwater moats - Todo Takatora's design joining harbour and fortress as one.
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Uwa Rice Museum
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
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Mt Ishizuchi
The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.
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Ozu Historic Streets
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
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Shipyards of Imabari
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.