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Otsuka Museum of Art
A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.
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Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum
In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.
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Tokushima Castle Museum
A Momoyama garden built from the province's blue-green schist, composed from the colour and shape of the stone alone.
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Awa Puppet Theatre
Indigo wealth planted puppet theatre in the villages; dozens of their open-air stages still survive and still perform.
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Inukai Rural Stage
A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.
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Naruto German House
A First World War POW camp where the prisoners ran presses and workshops - and gave Japan its first performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
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Udatsu Street, Wakimachi
An indigo trading town where the firewalls between houses grew ever taller as displays of wealth.
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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.
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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.
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Anan Coast
A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.
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Fishing Villages of Mugi
Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.
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Forestry of Naka
Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.
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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.
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Townhouses of Tokushima
A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.
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Satoyama of Kamiyama
Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.