This is a listing of Japan's World Heritage Sites.
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
Gusuku Sites and related properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
10 mins car ride from Ocean Expo Park.
The royal Mausoleum of the 2nd Sho Dynasty.
Himeji-jo
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
The temple houses the world largest bronze statue of Buddha Vairocana.
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
Residence of 7 english engineers who worked in the spinning mill a the end of Edo period.
The site where industrisation took pace in Japan.
The furnance was used for melting iron to make cannon barrels.
The house of Thomas Blake Glover who played a role in modernization of shipbuilding, coal mining and other industrialisation in Japan.