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島根県 · Shrines & temples

Fumishima

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A breeding ground for black-tailed gulls. It is the sacred ground of Hinomisaki Jinja, and only priests may cross to it.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Tachikuekyo

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Columnar rocks stand in ranks, and it is called the Yabakei of the San'in coast. Five hundred rakan are enshrined here.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Manpukuji

益田市石見

Its garden, attributed to Sesshu, is a Place of Scenic Beauty.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Ikoji

益田市石見

Sesshu lived here in his last years and made the garden. The main gate was moved from the great gate of Masuda Castle.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Yomeiji

津和野町石見

The grave of Mori Ogai is here. The funerary temple of the lords of Tsuwano.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Karakama Jinja

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You worship by squeezing through a cleft in the rock 45 centimetres wide. A deity of ironworking.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Tamawakasu Jinja

隠岐の島町松江・隠岐

The Yaosugi cedar in its grounds is held to be 2,000 years old.

島根県 · Shrines & temples

Kanbara Jinja

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A bronze mirror inscribed with the year Jingchu 3 was excavated from a burial mound here.

島根県 · Tourism

Iwami Kagura

浜田市ほか石見

Known for its Yamata-no-Orochi piece. A local performing art danced through the night.

島根県 · Tourism

Kamiarisai

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In the tenth lunar month the gods of all Japan gather in Izumo. What is the month without gods elsewhere is the month with gods here.

島根県 · Tourism

Matsue-jo

松江市松江・隠岐

A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. It is also called Chidori Castle.

島根県 · Tourism

Omori

大田市石見

It became World Heritage because the silver was taken without wrecking the environment.

島根県 · Tourism

Iwami Ginzan

大田市石見

It was recognised for taking silver without wrecking the environment. At one point it produced a third of the world's silver.

島根県 · Tourism

Adachi Museum

安来市松江・隠岐

It has topped an American magazine's ranking of Japanese gardens for over twenty years. The windows are treated as picture frames.

島根県 · Tourism

Yushien

松江市松江・隠岐

A peony garden on Daikonshima. Flowers are floated across the whole surface of the pond.

島根県 · Tourism

Tsuwano

津和野町石見

The little Kyoto of the San'in coast. Carp swim in the roadside channels.

島根県 · Tourism

Kuniga Coast

西ノ島町松江・隠岐

Matengai cliff, 257 metres high. Cattle and horses graze on the clifftop.

島根県 · Tourism

Yunotsu Onsen

大田市石見

A spa town that was also the port from which silver was shipped. The only hot spring town designated a preservation district.

島根県 · Tourism

Tamatsukuri Onsen

松江市松江・隠岐

The Izumo Fudoki records that one bathing here makes the face fair.

島根県 · Tourism

Horikawa Cruise

松江市松江・隠岐

You circle the castle moat by small boat. At the low bridges the roof comes down.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shimane Art Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo

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Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.

島根県 · Art & museums

Adachi Museum of Art

安来市松江・隠岐

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.

島根県 · Art & museums

Tanabe Art Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.