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Site Municipality Comments Image Coordinates Type Ref. *Former Hama-rikyū Teien Gardens 旧浜離宮庭園 kyū-Hama-rikyū teien: Chūō: Edo period gardens; also a Special Place of Scenic Beauty
Japan accepted the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 30 June 1992. [3] There are 26 sites listed in Japan, with a further four sites on the tentative list. [3] Japan's first entries to the list took place in 1993, when four sites were inscribed. The most recent site, the Sado mine, was listed in 2024.
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To protect Japan's cultural heritage, the country's government selects through the Agency for Cultural Affairs important items and designates them as Cultural Properties under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.
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This category contains nationally designated Historic Sites (史跡, shiseki).As of 1 February 2012, there were 1667 Historic Sites, including 60 Special Historic Sites.. In some instances the designated property may not correspond exactly with the listed article; for instance, when a monument forms part of a temple.
Okayama Prefecture's Kōraku-en is a designated Special Place of Scenic Beauty. Monuments (記念物, kinenbutsu) is a collective term used by the Japanese government's Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties to denote Cultural Properties of Japan [note 1] as historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses ...
Pages in category "Maps of Japan" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... List of Japanese map symbols; M. Map of Japan (Kanazawa Bunko) R.