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Marugame Castle
Marugame Castle's high stone ramparts, surviving wooden keep and city views.
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Shikoku Aquarium
Shikoku Aquarium in Utazu organizes its exhibits around the island's water environments, from the Seto Inland Sea to the Pacific and inland rivers. The regional approach links individual animals with currents, coasts and freshwater landscapes. Follow those connections through the galleries, then notice how the aquarium's seaside setting extends the subject beyond its tanks.
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Angel Road
A tide-dependent Shodoshima sandbar linking the shore to small offshore islets.
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New Reoma World
Ride and explore New Reoma World's themed grounds near Marugame.
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Shodoshima Olive Park
Walk among Shodoshima's olives and the hilltop windmill.
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Tomonoura
Stroll Tomonoura's harbor streets and stone lighthouse.
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Yamagoe Udon
Try kamatama udon at Yamagoe's rural Ayagawa shop.
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Yuushien Garden
Walk Yuushien's ponds and peony displays on Daikonshima.
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Senkoji Park
See Onomichi's harbor and islands from Senkoji Park.
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Awa Odori Kaikan
See Awa Odori dance at Tokushima's dedicated hall.
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Chichu Art Museum
See art and light in Naoshima's underground Chichu museum.
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Ōyamazumi Shrine
Visit Ōyamazumi Shrine's wooded island precinct.
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Beppu Benten Pond
Beppu Benten Pond is a clear karst spring behind a small shrine in Yamaguchi, known for intensely blue water, visible depth and a year-round temperature of about fourteen degrees.
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Hiroshima Orizuru Tower
Hiroshima Orizuru Tower looks across the Peace Memorial Park area from beside the Atomic Bomb Dome. Its elevated, wood-lined observation space places the memorial landscape within the wider rebuilt city, while the paper crane provides a theme elsewhere in the building. Check which participatory exhibits are available, and allow the nearby memorial sites their own time and attention.
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Hiroshima PARCO
Browse Hiroshima PARCO near the Hondori shopping area.
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Hofu Tenmangu Shrine
Hofu Tenmangu is traditionally regarded as Japan's first Tenmangu shrine, dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane and rooted in the nationwide devotional culture that formed around him.
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Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden
Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden combines a public garden with plant research on Mount Godai, commemorating botanist Makino Tomitaro through living collections and interpretation.
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Takamatsu Castle Park (Tamamo Park)
Takamatsu Castle, preserved as Tamamo Park, was built in 1590 beside the harbor and remains unusual for a moat system filled with seawater drawn directly from the Seto Inland Sea.
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Bitchu Matsuyama Castle
Bitchu Matsuyama Castle stands on Mount Gagyu about 430 meters above sea level, preserving one of Japan's twelve original castle keeps at the end of a steep mountain approach.
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Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo stands beside Izumo Taisha and interprets the archaeology, ritual history and mythology of ancient Izumo, Iwami and the Oki region through regional collections.
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Twenty-Four Eyes Movie Village
Twenty-Four Eyes Movie Village preserves a 1950s-style film set of wooden schoolhouses and shops on Shodoshima's southeast cape, created for screen adaptations of the classic story.
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Washuzan Second Observation Deck
Washuzan Second Observation Deck is a free public viewpoint above the Seto Inland Sea, framing the Great Seto Bridge and island-dotted water from the Washuzan ridge near Kojima.
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Bizan Park
Bizan Park occupies Mount Bizan above Tokushima, with broad views over the city and Yoshino River and spring cherry blossoms adding a seasonal layer to the mountaintop park.
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Gamou Udon
Gamou Udon is a long-running self-service Sanuki udon shop in Sakaide's Kamo district, known for simple bowls eaten outdoors amid the surrounding rice-field landscape.