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Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun

Hubert Austria - 21-May-20

Without doubt, you get the best impression of this WHS from an aerial view. Shortly after the departure from Kansai Airport westwards you have a perfect view of the Mozu Konfun complex. It is strange to see these huge tombs like green islands in the middle of a sea of modern buildings. One inevitably wonders what this densly populated area may have looked like in the 5th century when the largest of these kofuns were built. And what remains of this ancient culture might still be hidden underground. However, the builders of these tombs have left no written records, no remains of palaces or fortifications have been preserved. Only the kofuns and the artifacts that were found in there.

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Nikko

Hubert Austria - 11-May-20

"Don't say beautifully until you've seen Nikkō" is an old Japanese saying. And not without reason. The temples and shrines of Nikkō are famous for their colourful ornaments and the multitude of carvings, best known are the Three Wise Monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Nikkō was already a holy place in the 8th century, and became a spiritual centre when the mausoleum of the first Tokugawa Shōgun was moved here in the early 17th century. The temples and shrines represent the architectural style of the Edo period (1603 to 1868).

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Tomioka Silk Mill

Hubert Austria - 08-May-20

All of the previous reviewers visited only one of the four locations that make up this WHS, the main site: the Tomioka Silk Mill. And to tell it right away: I did it the same way.It doesn’t seem to be very difficult to visit at least one of the other locations, the distances from Tomioka are between 25 and 45 kilometres. However, this website estimates travel times from the silk mill by public transport between 75 and 100 minutes, including taxi rides and/or walking

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Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution

Hubert Austria - 28-Apr-20

Shortly before I left for my trip to Japan in September 2019, I realized that it would be possible to tick off one of the 23 locations of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution WHS. Most of these sites are located on Kyūshū or West Honshū, far away from my itinerary. Only one location is in Central Honshū, about 100 km southwest of Tokyo: the Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces.

Niramaya is almost directly on the Tokaido Shinkansen line (connecting Tokyo and Kyoto/Osaka). In Mishima you have to change to a private railway line for the last short section to Izu-Nagaoka station, and then it's a 20-minute walk to the site (through rice fields, of course, we are in Japan). In total, it took me less than two hours to get there from Tokyo.Having said that, I have to admit that getting there takes longer than visiting. What you can see are four furnaces with four steel-framed brick chimneys. The furnaces are the remains of a cannon factory, and reproductions of such cannons are also on display

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Fujisan

Hubert Austria - 26-Apr-20

The classic way to visit the Fujisan WHS would be to hike up to the summit at 3770 m. But for normal hikers, this is only possible in July and August, when the mountain huts are open and reservations are accepted. Many hikers stay overnight in a hut and climb the summit in the early morning to see the sunrise. This is considered a very special spiritual experience. However, the trails can be very crowded. Despite the very short season, around 300.000 visitors climb Mount Fuji every year. If you visit Mount Fuji in summer, be aware that the summit is snow-free and this was still the case when I visited in September. It is a surprising and unusual view, you will rarely find photos of the snow-free Fujisan in the Web.

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Rome 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Bauhaus Sites 4.5

Cracow 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Florence 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Sintra 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Nara 4

Auschwitz Birkenau 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Dolomites 4

Granada 4

Loire Valley 4

Maritime Greenwich 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4

Neolithic Orkney 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Plitvice Lakes 4

Prague 4

Rila Monastery 4

Toledo 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Versailles 4

Vienna 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Acropolis 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Arles 3.5

Budapest 3.5

City of Bath 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Cordoba 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

Elvas 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Masada 3.5

Matera 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Naples 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Riga 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Selimiye Mosque 3.5

Seville 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Teide National Park 3.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5

The trulli of Alberobello 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vicenza 3.5

Vilnius 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Zollverein 3.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3

Albi 3

Alto Douro 3

Assisi 3

Avignon 3

Bamberg 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Belem 3

Canal du Midi 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Cuenca 3

Curonian Spit 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Etruscan Necropolises 3

Fontainebleau 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Graz 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Jodrell Bank Observatory 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinderdijk 3

Major Town Houses 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Medina of Tétouan 3

Mystras 3

Pont du Gard 3

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Gimignano 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Skocjan Caves 3

Split 3

Strasbourg 3

Telc 3

Trier 3

Vall de Boi 3

Villa d'Este 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Amiens Cathedral 2.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2.5

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Bryggen 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Causses and Cévennes 2.5

Caves and Ice Age Art 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chartres Cathedral 2.5

Churches of Peace 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Defence Line of Amsterdam 2.5

El Escurial 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5

Fujisan 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Heritage of Mercury 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Lake District 2.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5

Le Havre 2.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.5

Mérida 2.5

Naumburg Cathedral 2.5

Nessebar 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5

Pirin National Park 2.5

Poblet Monastery 2.5

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5

Québec 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5

Speyer Cathedral 2.5

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5

Statue of Liberty 2.5

Stevns Klint 2.5

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Trogir 2.5

University of Coimbra 2.5

Urbino 2.5

Val d'Orcia 2.5

Van Nellefabriek 2.5

Venetian Works of Defence 2.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5

Wadden Sea 2.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5

Würzburg Residence 2.5

Zamosc 2.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2

Alcala de Henares 2

Avila 2

Belfries 2

Bourges Cathedral 2

Burgundy 2

Caceres 2

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2

Chaîne des Puys 2

Christiansfeld 2

Crespi d'Adda 2

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2

Evora 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Gorham's Cave Complex 2

Hedeby and Danevirke 2

Kernavë 2

Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region 2

Liverpool 2

Medici Villas and Gardens 2

Medina Azahara 2

Messel Pit 2

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2

Mining Sites of Wallonia 2

Muskauer Park 2

New Lanark 2

Old City of Berne 2

Orange 2

Pienza 2

Primeval Beech Forests 2

Provins 2

Reims 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Royal Palace at Caserta 2

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga 2

Santa Maria de Guadelupe 2

Schönbrunn 2

Semmering Railway 2

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2

Tomioka Silk Mill 2

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2

Úbeda and Baeza 2

Abbey of St Gall 1.5

Bardejov Town 1.5

Blenheim Palace 1.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

Donana National Park 1.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5

Genoa 1.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.5

Jelling 1.5

Kronborg Castle 1.5

Litomysl Castle 1.5

Luther Memorials 1.5

Modena 1.5

Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun 1.5

Nancy 1.5

Pannonhalma 1.5

Quedlinburg 1.5

Reichenau 1.5

Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5

Stoclet House 1.5

Studley Royal Park 1.5

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 1.5

Tarraco 1.5

Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.5

Trebic 1.5

Vlkolinec 1.5

Vézelay 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Aranjuez 1

Beemster Polder 1

Corvey 1

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 1

Holasovice 1

Hollókö 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Madara Rider 1

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 1

Saltaire 1

Schokland 1

Struve Geodetic Arc 1

Hortobágy 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Tokaji Wine Region 0.5

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