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香川県 · Shrines & temples

Gojunoto

さぬき市東讃

It stands at the temple that carries the legend of the diving woman and the jewel.

香川県 · Shrines & temples

Zozusan

琴平町中讃

The mountain on which Kotohiragu stands. Its outline suggests an elephant's head.

香川県 · Shrines & temples

Momoryo

多度津町中讃

The site of the tale of a mother calling out to her son as he went off to war. It looks down on the harbour.

香川県 · Shrines & temples

Goo Jinja

直島町東讃

Rebuilt with a hall reached by a glass stairway. Contemporary art and faith, overlapping.

香川県 · Tourism

Kanamaruza

琴平町中讃

The oldest surviving playhouse in Japan. Kabuki is still performed here.

香川県 · Tourism

Konpira Ishidan

琴平町中讃

Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main shrine, 1,368 to the inner one. The climb is itself the practice.

香川県 · Tourism

Manno-ike

まんのう町中讃

The largest irrigation pond in Japan. When it burst, Kukai directed the repairs.

香川県 · Tourism

Marugame-jo

丸亀市中讃

A surviving keep, and the smallest in Japan. Its stone walls are said to be the highest.

香川県 · Tourism

Ritsurin Koen

高松市高松

The largest garden in Japan designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty. It borrows Mount Shiun as scenery.

香川県 · Tourism

Shodoshima 88

小豆島町東讃

A miniature circuit that lets you walk the Shikoku pilgrimage within the island.

香川県 · Tourism

Kankakei

小豆島町東讃

One of the three great gorge views of Japan. Rock walls run like a folding screen.

香川県 · Tourism

Kaidan Meguri

善通寺市中讃

You walk through pitch darkness beneath the Mieido hall.

香川県 · Tourism

Kompira Steps

琴平町中讃

Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main shrine, 1,368 to the inner one. Palanquin carriers still work the slope.

香川県 · Tourism

Naoshima

直島町東讃

The Chichu Art Museum, and Kusama Yayoi's pumpkin. An island of industrial waste became an island of contemporary art.

香川県 · Tourism

Teshima Art Museum

土庄町東讃

A concrete shell in the shape of a water drop. Not a single column inside.

香川県 · Tourism

Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

One of the three great gorge views of Japan, and the birthplace of olive growing in Japan.

香川県 · Tourism

Sanuki Udon

高松市ほか高松

A self-serve culture of eating at the noodle works itself. Rainfall was low, so wheat grew.

香川県 · Tourism

Zenigata Sunae

観音寺市西讃

A sand drawing in the shape of a Kanei-tsuho coin. Seeing it is said to keep you from want of money.

香川県 · Tourism

Setouchi Triennale

高松市ほか高松

Twelve islands and two ports are the stage. Held once every three years.

香川県 · Art & museums

Chichu Art Museum

直島町東讃

Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.

香川県 · Art & museums

Benesse House Museum

直島町東讃

A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.

香川県 · Art & museums

Art House Project

直島町東讃

Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.

香川県 · Art & museums

Lee Ufan Museum

直島町東讃

For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kusama's Pumpkins, Naoshima

直島町東讃

A polka-dotted pumpkin at the end of a pier became the island's emblem; washed away by a typhoon, it was repaired and returned.