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和歌山県 · Art & museums

Yuasa Historic District

湯浅町紀中

Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Hashigui-iwa Rocks

串本町紀南

Forty rock columns in a straight line, all that remains of a hard dyke after the softer stone eroded away.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kamikura Shrine

新宮市紀南

A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Sato Haruo Memorial Museum

新宮市紀南

The poet's Tokyo house was dismantled and rebuilt in his home town - a building returned to its birthplace.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Taiji Whale Museum

太地町紀南

Records of old-style whaling; the painted fleet formations read as working diagrams for collective labour.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakanoura

和歌山市紀北

A shore celebrated in poetry for thirteen centuries, with an Edo-period arched stone bridge still standing.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kimiidera

和歌山市紀北

Halls stepped up a slope above the bay, now housing one of the largest wooden standing Kannon in Japan.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Terraced Orange Groves of Arida

有田市紀中

Four centuries of stone terracing turned these slopes into stairs, planted with citrus to the ridge.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Plum Groves of Minabe

みなべ町紀中

Plums, the woodland that feeds their bees, and the charcoal made from it - one system, recognised as agricultural heritage.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Temple Lodgings of Koyasan

高野町高野

Around fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Nyonindo and the Women's Path

高野町高野

While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Nachi Falls

那智勝浦町紀南

No building: the waterfall itself is the deity, Japan's highest single drop, roped at the lip.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Negoro Lacquer Technique

岩出市紀北

Made by monks for their own use; stripped of ornament and built only for strength, the utility became the style.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Coastal Rock Forms of Shirahama

白浜町紀南

Sandstone planed flat by waves, and an islet pierced by a round hole the setting sun drops through.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Tokugawa Furnishings

和歌山市紀北

Furnishings made for one of the three Tokugawa houses; the wedding sets were designed as a single coordinated suite.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Sculptors of Koyasan

高野町高野

Many images here were carved for the mountain by the capital's leading sculptors, so the workshops can be traced.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Gobo Temple Town

御坊市紀中

A town grown around a temple, its grid plan still legible in the streets.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kushimoto Coast

串本町紀南

One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, at the southern tip of the main island.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kilns of Kishu

和歌山市紀北

Several kilns nurtured by the Kishu domain survive, among them a celadon imitation made for the lord's own use.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Ichimai-iwa of Kozagawa

古座川町紀南

A single rock face five hundred metres wide standing over the river - among the largest monoliths in Japan.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Pile Fabrics of Koyaguchi

橋本市高野

Cotton raised into a pile until it reads as fur; most of Japan's pile fabric is woven in this valley.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe

海南市紀北

The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Picture Preaching

新宮市紀南

Nuns walked all Japan explaining a painted mandala of heaven and hell - pictures used as the instrument of preaching.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Tomogashima Fortifications

和歌山市紀北

Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.