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Motoori Norinaga's former residence
📍 Mie
Motoori Norinaga's Former Residence is a Japanese historic site located in Tono-machi, Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture. It is the building where Norinaga Motoori, a prominent Edo-period scholar of Japanese classics, lived, and the second floor houses his study named 'Suzunoya'.
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Ginkaku-ji Temple
📍 Kyoto
Ginkaku-ji , officially named Jishō-ji , is a Zen temple in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the constructions that represent the Higashiyama Culture of the Muromachi period.
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Kinkaku-ji Temple
📍 Kyoto
Kinkaku-ji , officially named Rokuon-ji , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and a tourist attraction. It is designated as a World Heritage Site, a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape, and one of the 17 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto. The temple is nicknamed after its reliquary (shariden), the Golden Pavilion , whose top two floors are coated in 0.5 μm gold leaf. The current pavilion was rebuilt in 1955 after being destroyed in an arson attack.
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Sanbō-in Garden
📍 Kyoto
Daigo-ji Sanboin Garden is a Japanese garden located in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is the garden of the Sanboin, a sub-temple of Daigo-ji, and was designated as a Special Historic Site and Special Place of Scenic Beauty in 1952.
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Kii Castle
📍 Saga
Kii Castle was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan straddling Mt. Kizan where the border between the city of Chikushino, Fukuoka and the town of Kiyama, Saga Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1937, and raised to a Special Historic Site since 1954.
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Nagoya Castle
📍 Saga
Nagoya Castle was a Japanese castle located in the Chinzei neighborhood of the city of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. It is sometimes called Hizen-Nagoya Castle to distinguish it from the more famous Nagoya Castle in Aichi Prefecture. It is located on a hill in the center of Higashi Matsuura peninsula, about 10 kilometer north of Karatsu city. It served as the base from which Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched his invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598. None of the original historic structures of Nagoya Castle remain, but the castle's ruined foundations survive, and were designated a National Historic Site in 1926, and elevated to a Special Historic Site in 1955. The area under protection was expanded in the year 2000.
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Yoshinogari site
📍 Saga
Yoshinogari is a large and complex Yayoi period archaeological site located in the town of Yoshinogari and city of Kanzaki in Saga Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. According to the Yayoi chronology established by pottery seriations in the 20th century, Yoshinogari dates back to between the 3rd century BC and the 3rd century AD. However, recent attempts to use absolute dating methods such as AMS radiocarbon dating have shown that the earliest Yayoi component of Yoshinogari dates back to before 400 BC.
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Himeji Castle
📍 Hyōgo
Himeji Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 structures with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period. The castle is frequently known as Hakuro-jō or Shirasagi-jō because of its brilliant white exterior and supposed resemblance to a bird taking flight.
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Goryōkaku
📍 Hokkaido
Goryōkaku is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido. The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main headquarters of the short-lived Republic of Ezo.
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Kasori Shell Mound
📍 Chiba
The Kasori Shell Mounds is an archaeological site in the Sakuragi neighborhood of Wakaba ward of the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. It contains the largest known shell midden found in Japan, and was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1971. Its status was raised to that of a special National Historic Site in 2017.
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Iwase Senzuka Kofun Group
📍 Wakayama
Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster is a cluster of Kofun period burial mounds that is located in the Wakayama, in the Kansai region of Japan. One of the largest concentrations of burial mounds in Japan, it consist of over 900 tumuli. It is designated as a National Historic Site in 1931, upgraded to a Special National Historic Site in 1952, and the area under designation expanded in 2016.
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Inariyama Kofun
📍 Saitama
The Inariyama Kofun (稲荷山古墳) is a kofun burial mound located in the city of Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site in 1938 and re-designated as a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 2020 as part of the Sakitama Kofun Cluster. It is also referred to as the Sakitama Inariyama Kofun (埼玉稲荷山古墳) or the Gyōda Inariyama Kofun (行田稲荷山古墳) to disambiguate it from other tumuli using the name of "Inariyama" in other parts of the country.
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Sakitama Kofun Cluster
📍 Saitama
The Saikitama Kofun Cluster is a group of burial mounds located in the city of Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1938, and was upgraded in status to a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 2020. The site consists of nine large kofun, which were built in the 5th to 7th centuries AD, i.e. from the late Kofun period into the Asuka period, when the construction of burial mounds was already out of fashion in western Japan.
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Usuki Stone Buddhas
📍 Ōita
The Usuki Stone Buddhas is a group of 61 religious statues in four groups carved in bas-relief into a tuff cliff in the city of Usuki, Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The site was designated a National Special Historic Site of Japan in 1952. In 1962, 59 of the 61 statues were collectively designated a National Important Cultural Property, with the designation elevated in 1995 to National Treasure.
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Kudara-ji
📍 Osaka
Kudara-ji (百済寺) was a Buddhist temple located in the city of Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. The temple is now in ruins, and its former precincts were designated a National Historic Site in 1941, with the designation changed to a Special National Historic Site in 1952. The site was opened to the public as one of Japan's first archaeological parks in 1965.
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Osaka Castle
📍 Osaka
Osaka Castle is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle is one of Japan's most famous landmarks and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
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Osaka Castle Park
📍 Osaka
Osaka Castle Park is a public urban park and historical site situated at Osaka-Jō in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. It lies on the south of the Ōkawa and occupies a large area in the center of the city of Osaka. This park is the second largest park in the city.
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Fujiwara Palace
📍 Nara
Fujiwara Palace was a palace established in the ancient Japanese region of Fujiwara in Yamato (present-day Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture). There are two versions: one from the 5th century and another from the 7th to 8th centuries (from 694 to 710).
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Heijō Palace
📍 Nara
Heijō Palace was the imperial residence in the Japanese capital city Heijō-kyō, during most of the Nara period. The palace, which served as the imperial residence and the administrative centre for most of the Nara period from 710 to 794 AD, was located at the north-central location of the city in accordance with the Chinese models used for the design of the capital.
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Ishibutai Kofun
📍 Nara
Ishibutai kofun (石舞台古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the village of Asuka, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1935. In 1954 the designation was elevated to a Special Historic Sites , The kofun is also known as the Ishibutoya (石太屋) Kofun.
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Kitora Tomb
📍 Nara
The Kitora Tomb is an ancient tumulus located in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The tomb is believed to have been constructed some time between the 7th and early 8th centuries, but was only discovered in 1983.
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Kyūseki Teien
📍 Nara
The Kyūseki Teien, also known as the Heijō-kyō Sakyo Sanjo Nibo Palace Garden is a Japanese garden dating to the Nara period, located in Nara, Nara, western Japan.
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Monju-in Nishi Kofun
📍 Nara
Monju-in Nishi Kofun (文殊院西古墳) is an late Kofun period burial mound, located in the Takada neighborhood of the city of Sakurai, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1923 and elevated to a Special National Historic Site in 1952.
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Moto-Yakushiji
📍 Nara
Moto-Yakushi-ji ruins is an archeological site with the ruins of an Asuka period Buddhist temple located in the city of Kashihara, Nara, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1921, with the classification changed to Special Historic Site in 1952. It is the predecessor of the famous Yakushi-ji in Nara, and its name "Moto Yakushi-ji", and the site is now a Special National Historic Site.
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Suyama Kofun
📍 Nara
Suyama Kofun (巣山古墳) is a burial mound from the Kofun period, located on the border of the Miyoshi neighborhood of the town of Kōryō, Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. It is designated as a national Special Historic Site. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1927, with its status elevated to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1952. It the central tumulus of the burial mounds that make up the Umami Kofun cluster and is estimated to have been built between the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century.
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Takamatsuzuka Tomb
📍 Nara
The Takamatsuzuka Tomb is an Asuka period circular tomb burial mound, located in the village of Asuka, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1972.
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Yamada-dera
📍 Nara
Yamada-dera (山田寺) was a Buddhist temple established in the Asuka period in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The area was designated a National Historic Site in 1921, with its status elevated to a Special National Historic Site in 1952. It also forms part of a grouping of sites submitted in 2007 for future inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Asuka-Fujiwara: Archaeological sites of Japan’s Ancient Capitals and Related Properties. Excavations in the 1980s uncovered a well-preserved section of the temple's covered corridors that predate the surviving buildings of Hōryū-ji: "for the history of Japanese architecture, this discovery is of as great moment as the finding of the seventh-century Takamatsuzuka tomb paintings in March 1972 was for the history of Japanese art."
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Taga Castle
📍 Miyagi
Taga Castle was a jōsaku-style Japanese castle built in the late Nara period in what is now part of the city of Tagajō in Miyagi prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. Bashō tells of his visit to the site in Oku no Hosomichi. The ruins of Taga-jō and its former temple have been designated a Special Historic Site (特別史跡) since 1922.
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Saitobaru Kofun Cluster
📍 Miyazaki
Saitobaru Kofun Cluster is a group of three hundred thirty three kofuns or tumuli in Saito city, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. This is one of the largest kofun groups in Japan, and the largest group in Kyushu situated on a 70-meter hill composed of diluvium. It is located within the Saitobaru-Sugiyasukyō Prefectural Natural Park.
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Shizutani School
📍 Okayama
The Shizutani School was a school for the common people opened by the Okayama Domain in the early Edo period. It is located in Bizen in the Okayama Prefecture of Japan. The Auditorium has been designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan as National Treasures in the building/structure category.
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Chūson-ji Temple
📍 Iwate
Chūson-ji (中尊寺) is a Buddhist temple in the town of Hiraizumi in southern Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is the head temple of the Tendai sect in Tōhoku region of northern Honshu. The temple claims it was founded in 850 by Ennin, the third chief abbot of the sect. George Sansom states Chūson-jí was founded by Fujiwara no Kiyohira in 1095. Chūson-jí was designated as a Special Historic Site in 1979 and in June 2011 was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a part of the "Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi".
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Kanjizaiō-in
📍 Iwate
Kanjizaiō-in (観自在王院) was a Buddhist temple located in Hiraizumi in what is now southern Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The temple fell into ruins during the Kamakura period; however, the pond from its gardens has been restored to its original dimensions, and has been designated a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty in 2005. The ruins are also covered as part of the Special National Historic Site designation for neighboring Mōtsū-ji. Together with other important sites in Hiraizumi, the ruins form part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi.
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Muryōkō-in Ato
📍 Iwate
Muryōkō-in (無量光院跡) is former temple in Hiraizumi in what is now southern Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The site is designated as both a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and a Special National Historic Site.
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Mōtsū-ji Temple
📍 Iwate
Mōtsū-ji (毛越寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Tendai sect in the town of Hiraizumi in southern Iwate Prefecture, Japan, and also refers to the historic area surrounding it containing the ruins of two older temples, Enryū-ji (圓隆寺) and Kashō-ji (嘉祥寺) in a Jōdo garden. The current temple was built in the 18th century and bears no relation to the ancient temple structures that once stood here. In June 2011, Mōtsū-ji was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as "Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi".
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Itsukushima
📍 Hiroshima
Itsukushima (厳島) is an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay. It is popularly known as Miyajima (宮島), which in Japanese means "Shrine Island". The island is one of Hayashi Gahō's Three Views of Japan specified in 1643. Itsukushima is part of the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture. The island was part of the former town of Miyajima before the 2005 merger with Hatsukaichi.
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Renjuku
📍 Hiroshima
The Renjuku (廉塾) was a private academy in Edo period Japan. Located in the Kannabe neighborhood of the city of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, it was designated a Special National Historic Site in 1934.
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Edo Castle
📍 Tokyo
Edo Castle is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. In modern times it is part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is therefore also known as Chiyoda Castle . Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate there, and it was the residence of the shōgun and the headquarters of the military government during the Edo period (1603–1867) in Japanese history. After the resignation of the shōgun and the Meiji Restoration, it became the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Some moats, walls and ramparts of the castle survive to this day. However, the grounds were more extensive during the Edo period, with Tokyo Station and the Marunouchi section of the city lying within the outermost moat. It also encompassed Kitanomaru Park, the Nippon Budokan Hall and other current landmarks of the surrounding area.
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Hamarikyu Gardens
📍 Tokyo
Hama-rikyū Gardens is a metropolitan garden in Chūō ward, Tokyo, Japan. Located at the mouth of the Sumida River, it was opened to the public on April 1, 1946. A landscaped garden of 250,216 m2 includes Shioiri-no-ike, and the garden is surrounded by a seawater moat filled by Tokyo Bay. It was remodeled as a public garden on the site of a villa belonging to the ruling Tokugawa family in the 17th century.
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Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden
📍 Tokyo
The Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a large urban park in the Koishikawa neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese garden dates from the early Edo period. and is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created during that period, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
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Cedar Avenue of Nikkō
📍 Tochigi
The Cedar Avenue of Nikkō is the popular name for three separate tree-lined sections of roads in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi in the northern Kantō region of Japan. These roads are the Nikkō Kaidō, Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō and Aizu Nishi Kaidō and the 13,000 cryptomeria trees lining a total of 35.41 kilometers (22.00 mi) of these roads form a monumental approach to the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō. Although it is not a single continuous road, the "Cedar Avenue of Nikkō" was listed in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest tree-lined avenue in the world. It is the only cultural property designated by the Japanese Government as both a Special Historic Site and a Special Natural Monument.
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Ōya-dera
📍 Tochigi
Ōya-dera (大谷寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in northern Kantō region of Japan. The temple is famous for its bas-relief carvings on a cliff face. It belongs to the Tendai sect and its honzon is a statue of Senjū Kannon Bosatsu (Sahasrabhūja). The temple's full name is Tenkai-zan Jodo-in Ōya-ji .The temple is the 19th stop on the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage route.
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Azuchi Castle
📍 Shiga
Azuchi Castle was one of the primary castles of Oda Nobunaga located in the Azuchi neighborhood of the city of Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture. The site of the castle was designated a National Historic Site in 1926, with the designation upgraded to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1952. The castle is located within the grounds of the Biwako Quasi-National Park.
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Hikone Castle
📍 Shiga
Hikone Castle is an Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is considered the most significant historical site in Shiga. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951. Hikone is one of only twelve castles in Japan with its original tenshu, and one of only five castles with buildings listed as National Treasures.
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Kumamoto Castle
📍 Kumamoto
Kumamoto Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and well-fortified castle. The castle keep is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but a number of ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the three premier castles in Japan, along with Himeji Castle and Matsumoto Castle. Thirteen structures in the castle complex are designated Important Cultural Property.
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Dazaifu
📍 Fukuoka
The Dazaifu is a Japanese term for the regional government in Kyushu from the 8th to the 12th centuries. The name may also refer to the seat of government which grew into the modern city of Dazaifu in Fukuoka Prefecture.
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Mizuki
📍 Fukuoka
Mizuki Castle was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan straddling the border of the cities of Ōnojō, Dazaifu, and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1921, and raised to a Special National Historic Site since 1953 with the area under protection expanded in 2013.
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Ōno Castle
📍 Fukuoka
Ōno Castle was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan straddling the border of the cities of Ōnojō and Dazaifu, and the town of Umi, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1932, and raised to a Special Historic Site since 1953 with the area under protection expanded in 2012. The name of Ōnojō City comes from this castle; however, approximately 80% of the castle area is within the boundaries of Umi Town.
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Ōzuka Kofun
📍 Fukuoka
The Ōzuka Kofun (王塚古墳) is a Kofun period decorated kofun burial mounds, located in the Jumei neighborhood of the town of Keisen, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1937, and elevated in status to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1956
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Ōyu Stone Circles
📍 Akita
The Ōyu Stone Circles is a late Jōmon period archaeological site in the city of Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The remains were designated a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 1956 by the Japanese government. The site is located approximately ten minutes by car from Towada-Minami on the JR East Hanawa Line of the Towada Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway.
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Kanaizawa Stele
📍 Gunma
The Kanaizawa Stele is a Nara period stele discovered in the Yamana neighborhood of the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The stele was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1921, and was raised in status to a Special National Historic Site in 1954. As one of the "Three Stelae of Kōzuke", it was submitted by Japan for inclusion into the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2017
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Tago Stele
📍 Gunma
The Tago Stele is a Nara period stele discovered in the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The stele was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1921, and was raised in status to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1954. As one of the "Three Stelae of Kōzuke", it was submitted by Japan for inclusion into the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2017.
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Three Stelae of Kōzuke
📍 Gunma
The Three Stelae of Kōzuke (上野三碑) are three ancient stelae in the former Kōzuke Province of Japan, located in what is now the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in the Kantō region. Together, they were inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as "Three Cherished Stelae of Ancient Kozuke" in 2017.
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Yamanoue Kofun
📍 Gunma
Yamanoue Tumulus, also known as Kamiyama Tumulus, is a circular burial mound located in Yamana-machi, Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. Together with the adjacent Yamanoue Stele, it is designated as a National Special Historic Site (designated under the name 'Yamanoue Stele and Tumulus').
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Yamanoue Stele
📍 Gunma
Yamanoue Stele is an Asuka period stele discovered in the Yamana neighborhood of the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The stele was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1921, and was raised in status to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1954. It is associated with the adjacent Yamanoue Kofun (山ノ上古墳), a kofun burial mound, which is also covered under the Special Historical Site designation. As one of the "Three Stelae of Kōzuke", the Yamanoue Stele was submitted by Japan for inclusion into the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2017 The inscription on the Yamanoue Stele is the oldest example of writing in Chinese characters according to Japanese grammar.
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Hitachi Kokubun-niji
📍 Ibaraki
Hitachi Kokubun-niji is a temple of the Chizan sect of Shingon Buddhism located in Fuchu, Ishioka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Its mountain prefix is Joruri-san, and its院号 (in-go) is Toh-in. The principal image is Yakushi Nyorai.
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Hitachi Kokubunji Temple
📍 Ibaraki
Hitachi Kokubun-ji (常陸国分寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Fuchū neighborhood of the city of Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and its honzon is an image of Yakushi Nyōrai. It is the modern successor of the provincial temple ("kokubunji") of former Hitachi Province. The ruins of the Nara period temple and the nearby nunnery have been collectively protected as a National Historic Site since 1922. In 1952, the designation was upgraded to that of a Special National Historic Site.
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Kōdōkan
📍 Ibaraki
The Kōdōkan (弘道館) was the largest han school in Bakumatsu period Japan. Located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, three of its buildings have been designated Important Cultural Properties and the school is a Special Historic Site.
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Harunotsuji Site
📍 Nagasaki
The Haranotsuji Site is an archaeological site with the remains of a large Yayoi period settlement located in the Ashibe-machi and Ishida-machi neighborhoods of the city of Iki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The site was designated as a National Historic Site in 1997 with the area under protection expanded and promoted to a Special Historic Site in 2000. The area under protection was further expanded in 2005 and 2009.
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Kaneda Castle
📍 Nagasaki
Kaneda Castle was a Korean-style fortress located in Tsushima, Nagasaki prefecture. Kaneda castle has been designated as being of national special significance.
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Togariishi, Yosukeone Ruins
📍 Nagano
The Togariishi and Yosuke-one Ruins are a Jomon period middle-stage circular settlement ruin located in Toyohira, Chino City, Nagano Prefecture. It is designated as a National Special Historic Site (designated under the name 'Togariishi Stone Age Ruins').
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Sannai-Maruyama Site
📍 Aomori
The Sannai-Maruyama Site is an archaeological site and museum located in the Maruyama and Yasuda neighborhoods to the southwest of central Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, containing the ruins of a very large Jōmon period settlement. The ruins of a 40-hectare settlement were discovered in 1992, when Aomori Prefecture started surveying the area for a planned baseball stadium. Archaeologists have used this site to further their understanding of the transition to sedentism and the life of the Jōmon people. Excavation has led to the discovery of storage pits, above ground storage, and long houses. These findings demonstrate a change in the structure of the community, architecture, and organizational behaviors of these people. Because of the extensive information and importance, this site was designated as a Special National Historical Site of Japan in 2000, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan collection in 2021. Today the public can visit the site, its various reconstructions of Jōmon structures, and a museum that displays and houses artifacts collected on the site, which have collectively been designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan.
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Arai Barrier
📍 Shizuoka
The Arai Barrier was a security checkpoint which was established by the Tokugawa Shogunate on the Tōkaidō highway connecting the capital of Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. Its official name was the Imagire Barier . In 1921, the site was recognized as a National Historic Site, and in recognition that it had only surviving Edo-period checkpoint structure remaining in the country, its status was upgraded to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1962.
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Toro
📍 Shizuoka
Toro is an archaeological site in Suruga Ward in Shizuoka City, 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of Tokyo, Japan. The site contains the ruins of a settlement which dates to the 1st century CE, in the late Yayoi period. Discovered in 1943, it was excavated from 1947 to 1948 and designated a Special Historic Site of Japan in 1952. Toro is also the name of the area surrounding it in the Japanese addressing system.
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Tōtōmi Kokubun-ji Temple
📍 Shizuoka
The Tōtōmi Kokubun-ji (遠江国分寺) was a Buddhist temple located in the Mitsuke neighborhood of what is now the city of Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. It was one of the provincial temples established by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of the imperial rule over the provinces. The original temple no longer exists, but the temple grounds are an archaeological site which was designated as a Special National Historic Site in 1962. The area under protection was expanded in 2012.
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Sanuki Kokubun-ji Temple
📍 Kagawa
Sanuki Kokubun-ji (讃岐国分寺) is a Buddhist temple located in the Kokubunji-cho neighborhood of the city of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is a head temple of the Omuro-branch of the Shingon sect, and its honzon is a statue of Senjū Jūichimen Kannon. Its full name is Hakugyū-zan Senjū-in Kokubun-ji (白牛山千手院国分寺). It is the successor to the Nara period provincial temple of former Sanuki Province and Temple 80 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. The precincts have been designated a Special Historic Site.
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Sainoo Haiji Ruins
📍 Tottori
Sainoo temple ruins is an archeological site with the ruins of a Hakuhō period Buddhist temple located in the Tsukishita neighborhood of the town of Kotoura, Tottori prefecture, in the San'in region of Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1935 with the designation changed to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1952. Due to the good condition of the remains, it is the only nationally designated Special Historic Site in the San'in region; however, as the temple does not appear in any documented history, its actual name and history are unknown.
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Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins
The Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins are historic ruins located in the Kidonouchi section of the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. This area was controlled by the Asakura clan for 103 years during the Sengoku period. It was designated as a Special Historic Site in 1971, and in June 2007, 2,343 artifacts were designated as Important Cultural Properties.
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Nagoya Castle
Nagoya Castle is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan.