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UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Yanbaru National Park
国頭郡 · JP
Where the Okinawa rail darts through subtropical forest — a UNESCO Natural Heritage park
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Sado mine
佐渡市 · JP
The gold mine that funded the Tokugawa shogunate — now a 2024 UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Amami-Ōshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island
鹿児島県 · JP
Where the Iriomote cat and Amami rabbit roam — two million years of island evolution
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region
宗像市 · JP
The Shōsōin of the Sea — Sacred Island of Okinoshima, 4th-century ritual in the Munakata Region
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Ogasawara Archipelago
小笠原村 · JP
The Galapagos of the Orient — a Pacific UNESCO Natural Heritage of endemic life
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan
岩手県 · JP
Ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer paradise — seventeen Jomon sites rise as World Heritage
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area
斑鳩町 · JP
Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area — Japan's first World Heritage Site
UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites in Japan
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
長崎県 · JP
250 years of Christian faith kept alive by lay believers alone, without a missionary in the land
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