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Submersible Bridges of the Shimanto
Bridges built without railings, designed to be submerged by floods rather than resist them.
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KochiContemporary ArtShimanto
The Shimanto River
No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.
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Monet's Garden Marmottan
Giverny recreated in a mountain valley with the foundation's blessing - and here the blue water lilies Monet never got actually bloom.
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Cape Muroto
Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.
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Tatsukushi Coast
Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.
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Cape Ashizuri
Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.
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Katsurahama Beach
A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.
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Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
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The Niyodo River
Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.
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Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay
The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.
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Terraces of the Upper Shimanto
Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.
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Farmland of the Konan Plateau
Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.
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Sunsets of Sukumo
In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.