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Takamatsu
One of Japan's most exquisite landscape gardens, a 300-year masterpiece of ponds, hills, and borrowed mountain scenery.
The great seafarers' shrine atop Mount Zozu, reached by a famous 1,368-step stone stairway.
A flat-topped plateau over the Inland Sea, site of a decisive Genpei battle and a pilgrimage temple, with sweeping views.
An open-air museum of historic buildings relocated from across Shikoku, set on a wooded hillside below Yashima.
A once-declining island reborn as a world-famous open-air stage for contemporary art and Tadao Ando architecture.
A Tadao Ando museum built into a Naoshima hillside, lit only by natural light, housing Monet, Turrell, and De Maria.
One of Japan's twelve surviving original wooden castle keeps, crowning some of the country's tallest stone walls.
Birthplace of Kobo Daishi and 75th temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage, with a soaring five-story pagoda.
A legend-steeped island off Takamatsu with an ogre's cave and a panoramic Inland Sea summit lookout.
One of Japan's three most beautiful gorges, a dramatic ravine of rock spires best seen by ropeway in autumn.
The 84th temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage, crowning the Yashima plateau with sweeping Inland Sea views.
The 83rd pilgrimage temple in southern Takamatsu, once joined to neighbouring Tamura Shrine.
The 80th pilgrimage temple and an 8th-century imperial provincial temple with ancient ruins in its grounds.
The 82nd pilgrimage temple high on the Goshikidai plateau, famous for its cow-demon Ushioni legend.
The 81st pilgrimage temple on the Goshikidai plateau, beside the tomb of the exiled Emperor Sutoku.
The 86th pilgrimage temple in coastal Sanuki City, with a fine garden and a soaring five-storey pagoda.
The 87th pilgrimage temple, the last easy stop before the final ascent to temple 88.
The 88th and final temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage, high in the mountains where the journey is fulfilled.
The chief shrine of old Sanuki Province, a lavishly decorated water-deity shrine south of Takamatsu.
The 76th pilgrimage temple in Zentsuji City, linked to the great monk Chisho Daishi.
A sunlit Mediterranean-style olive grove on Shodoshima with a Greek windmill and sea views.
A tidal sandbar on Shodoshima that emerges at low tide to link the island to tiny offshore islets.
A spectacular ropeway ride over one of Japan's most beautiful gorges, unmissable in autumn.
Emerald tiers of terraced rice paddies climbing a Shodoshima valley, one of Japan's finest.
