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徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Saba Daishi

海陽町南部

It preserves the custom of saba-dachi, giving up salted mackerel while making a vow.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Ohama

美波町南部

A nesting ground for loggerhead turtles. A land that reveres what the sea gives.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Kotohira

阿南市南部

It guards the easternmost cape of Shikoku.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Jintsudaki

神山町東部

A place of practice along the pilgrim road to Shosanji.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Unpenji

三好市西部

At 911 metres, the highest of the Shikoku sacred sites, and another pilgrim-breaker.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Hashikuraji

三好市西部

The main hall and five other buildings are Important Cultural Properties. A ropeway runs up.

徳島県 · Shrines & temples

Oboke

三好市西部

A gorge cut by the Yoshino river. Small shrines praying for safe passage are dotted along it.

徳島県 · Tourism

Ai

藍住町東部

Awa indigo carried the blue of Japan. The faith of a land the indigo makers kept.

徳島県 · Tourism

Udatsu

美馬市西部

The firewalls of merchant houses made rich by indigo. The origin of the Japanese phrase about getting on in life.

徳島県 · Tourism

Kamoda Misaki

阿南市南部

The easternmost point of Shikoku, and a nesting ground for sea turtles.

徳島県 · Tourism

Awa Odori

徳島市東部

A Bon dance of more than 400 years. The call goes: fools who dance, fools who watch.

徳島県 · Tourism

Bizan

徳島市東部

A hill sung of in the Manyoshu, looking down on the city of Tokushima.

徳島県 · Tourism

Iya Heike

三好市西部

A mountain village where the Taira are said to have fled after their defeat at Dannoura.

徳島県 · Tourism

Iya no Kazurabashi

三好市西部

A suspension bridge woven from hardy kiwi vine. It is rebuilt every three years.

徳島県 · Tourism

Naruto no Uzushio

鳴門市東部

Among the largest whirlpools in the world. The current reaches 20 kilometres an hour.

徳島県 · Tourism

Oboke Koboke

三好市西部

A gorge the Yoshino river took 200 million years to cut. A noted spot for rafting.

徳島県 · Tourism

Ai no Yakata

藍住町東部

Awa indigo carried the blue of Japan. The house of an indigo maker is open to visitors.

徳島県 · Tourism

Otsuka Museum

鳴門市東部

A thousand masterpieces from around the world, reproduced full size on ceramic panels. You may touch them and take photographs.

徳島県 · Tourism

Mt. Bizan

徳島市東部

A hill sung of in the Manyoshu. A ropeway takes you up to look down on the city.

徳島県 · Tourism

Hiwasa Sea Turtle

美波町南部

Ohama beach is a nesting ground for loggerhead turtles.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

徳島市東部

Collecting on three axes - the human figure, this province, and the present - centred on how the body was depicted in the 20th century.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Otsuka Museum of Art

鳴門市東部

A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Indigo

徳島市東部

Indigo leaves composted into sukumo; only a handful of makers remain, and most Japanese indigo dyeing still depends on them.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum

藍住町東部

In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.