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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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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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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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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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Taishakukyo Gorge
A ninety-metre natural bridge left where limestone dissolved away - a structure built by water alone.
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Sandankyo Gorge
Sixteen kilometres of granite gorge, with stretches passable only by ferry between vertical walls.
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Oyster Rafts of Hiroshima Bay
Rafts laid out in ranks across the bay - four centuries of oyster farming drawing geometry on the water.
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Rose Park, Fukuyama
Residents planted a thousand roses in a burned-out city - an intention to recover, turned into a landscape.