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Adachi Museum of Art
Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.
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ShimaneArt & Crafts
ShimaneArchitectureOda
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
ShimaneArchitectureMasuda
Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
ShimaneContemporary ArtNishinoshima
Kuniga Coast
A caldera rim drowned by the sea and cut into cliffs, with a rock arch left standing in the surf.
Matsue
Canals of Matsue
The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.
ShimaneContemporary ArtMatsue
Sunset over Lake Shinji
The city has built viewing points for the lake sunset - the position from which a landscape is seen, itself designed.
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Terraces of Iwami
Terraces built by stacking stone into steep mountain slopes - a record of turning hillside into stairs.
ShimaneContemporary ArtOkinoshima
Oki Geopark
Source of the obsidian carried to the mainland in the Palaeolithic - an island that was a trading origin point.