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  2. List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic ...

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    This category includes historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses and other sites of high historical or scientific value; gardens, bridges, gorges, mountains, and other places of great scenic beauty; and natural features such as animals, plants, and geological ...

  3. List of Historic Sites of Japan (Shiga) - Wikipedia

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    in part now a national Historic Site 35°28′03″N 136°11′45″E  /  35.467404°N 136.195751°E  / 35.467404; 136.195751  ( Kohori Kofun Yokoyama Jinja Kofun

  4. Category:Historic Sites of Japan - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Tomonoura: A historic coastal village away from the ... - AOL

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    This lovely village in Hiroshima prefecture has occupied prime real estate on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea for more than 1,400 years. ... In Japan, swallows are considered good luck ...

  6. Cultural Property (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    Monuments (記念物, kinenbutsu) include historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses and other sites of high historical or scientific value; gardens, bridges, gorges, mountains, and other places of great scenic beauty; and natural features such as animals ...

  7. List of World Heritage Sites in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) Kyoto, Shiga: 1994 688; ii, iv (cultural) Kyoto was the capital of Japan from its founding in 794 to the middle of the 19th century. It was also a cultural centre, crucial for the development of religious and secular architecture, in particular in wood, of the country.

  8. List of Historic Sites of Japan (Tokyo) - Wikipedia

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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

  9. Monuments of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...