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宮崎県 · Art & museums

Industrial Landscape of Nobeoka

延岡市県北

A company town grown on chemicals, its chimneys and tanks built into the view of the river and the streets.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Stone Walls of Obi

日南市県南

Walls of finely cut stone laid without gaps - unusually high masonry for southern Kyushu.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Shipping of Mimitsu

日向市県北

Planks from broken-up ships were reused as fencing - material recycling showing directly on the street.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Haniwa of Saitobaru

西都市宮崎

A house-shaped haniwa with smaller structures attached - a three-dimensional record of ancient building.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Ebino Highlands

えびの市都城

Crater lakes coloured blue and green by volcanic chemistry, shifting with season and weather.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Modern Architecture of Miyazaki

宮崎市宮崎

Large resort buildings from the bubble years, left as the built record of a period's thinking.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Kojima and the Coastal Terraces

串間市県南

The island where monkeys were first seen washing sweet potatoes - the first record of culture transmitted among animals.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Farmland of Tsuno

都農町宮崎

Vineyards terraced down a slope toward the sea - farming shaping terrain into steps.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyakonojo Shimazu Residence

都城市都城

A branch of the Shimazu house, its 1930s mixing of Western and Japanese rooms largely intact.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Images of Miyazaki

延岡市県北

The anti-Buddhist campaigns hit hard here, yet Heian images survive in the mountain temples.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Coastal Pine Belt of Hitotsuba

宮崎市宮崎

Pines planted against blown sand form a straight belt along the coast - a drawn line holding the land.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Moai of Nichinan

日南市県南

The only officially sanctioned Moai replicas in the world, made with the permission of Easter Island's elders.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Aya Castle

綾町宮崎

The first castle in Japan rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, and the precedent for those that followed.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts

高千穂町県北

Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Ayu Weirs of the Gokase River

延岡市県北

Bamboo weirs built across the river each autumn to catch sweetfish, then dismantled - a seasonal structure.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Office

宮崎市宮崎

Built in 1932 and still the working prefectural office - the fourth-oldest such building in Japan.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Citrus Terraces of Hyuga

日向市県北

Citrus terraced on stone; the local variety arose here by chance and now shapes the landscape that grows it.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

Aoshima

中部エリア

An island about 1.5 kilometres around off Miyazaki City, covered in subtropical plants and reached by bridge.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

青島神社

中部エリア

A shrine on Aoshima, tied to the myth of the luck of the sea and the luck of the mountain, revered for matchmaking.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

Phoenix Roadside Station

中部エリア

A roadside station in Miyazaki City on the Nichinan coast, looking out over the Pacific.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

綾の照葉大吊橋

中部エリア

A suspension bridge in Aya, spanning one of the largest evergreen broadleaf forests in Japan.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

西都原古墳群

中部エリア

A group of burial mounds in Saito: over 300 of them across a plateau; a special national historic site.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

Nichinan Coast

中部エリア

The shore from Miyazaki City to Kushima, with avenues of phoenix palms and washboard rock.

宮崎県 · Regional selections

Miyazaki Prefectural Government Office

中部エリア

The prefectural office in Miyazaki City, built in 1932; a registered cultural property.