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temple_buddhistArt & HistoryKOTOHIRA-GU SHRINE
"Konpira-san": the main shrine sits atop 785 stone steps, with 1,368 steps to the inner shrine.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryMARUGAME CASTLE
One of Japan's twelve original castle keeps, standing on the country's tallest stone walls with their elegant fan-shaped curve.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryCHICHU ART MUSEUM
Designed by Tadao Ando: a museum built mostly underground, where works by Monet, De Maria and Turrell are viewed in natural light.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryTESHIMA ART MUSEUM
A white concrete building shaped like a water droplet. Rei Naito and Ryue Nishizawa's museum on a hill overlooking rice terraces.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryRED PUMPKIN
Yayoi Kusama's giant Red Pumpkin greets you at Miyanoura Port, the gateway to Naoshima. An outdoor sculpture you can step inside.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryBENESSE HOUSE MUSEUM
A museum and hotel in one, built on the concept of "coexistence of nature, architecture and art."
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryNIJUSHI NO HITOMI MOVIE VILLAGE
A rebuilt film set from "Twenty-Four Eyes." Step back in time to a townscape of the Taisho and early Showa eras.
temple_buddhistArt & HistorySHIKOKUMURA MUSEUM
An open-air museum of 33 relocated and restored old houses and historic buildings from across Shikoku, plus a gallery designed by Tadao Ando.
temple_buddhistArt & HistorySANSHU IDUTSU YASHIKI
The residence of a wealthy merchant family who brewed soy sauce and sake since the Edo period. Tour the main house and garden, and try shaping wasanbon sugar.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryZENTSU-JI TEMPLE
Birthplace of Kobo Daishi (Kukai). Temple 75 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage, with a five-story pagoda rising over vast 45,000 sq m grounds.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryTESHIMA YOKOO HOUSE
Tadanori Yokoo x Yuko Nagayama. An art space on "life and death" in a converted old house. Reopened in April 2026 after renovation.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryMARUKIN SOY SAUCE MUSEUM
A museum in a soy sauce factory from the early Taisho era. Learn 400 years of soy sauce making amid the aroma of the moromi cellar, and try soy sauce soft-serve.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryHIGASHIYAMA KAII SETOUCHI ART MUSEUM
A small museum by Yoshio Taniguchi overlooking the Great Seto Bridge, holding about 350 works centered on Kaii Higashiyama's prints.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryKITAHAMA ALLEY
A complex of renovated old warehouses in the port town. Cafes, shops and galleries line the alleys.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryTAMAMO PARK (TAKAMATSU CASTLE)
One of Japan's three great "sea castles," with moats filled from the Seto Inland Sea. 3 min from JR Takamatsu Sta.; feed the sea bream from a castle boat on the moat.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryART HOUSE PROJECT
Seven old houses and a shrine in the village of Honmura turned into artworks. James Turrell's "Minamidera" and Rei Naito's "Kinza" require timed reservations.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryANDO MUSEUM
A small museum of Tadao Ando's work and Naoshima's history, with concrete spaces built inside a century-old wooden house.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryLES ARCHIVES DU CŒUR
A small seaside museum where Christian Boltanski's collection of heartbeats from around the world is preserved and played. You can record your own too.
temple_buddhistArt & HistorySHIDO-JI TEMPLE
Temple 86 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage. A vermilion five-story pagoda, guardian statues attributed to Unkei, and the grave of the diver from the "Pearl-Retrieving Legend."
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryOKUBO-JI TEMPLE
Temple 88, where the Shikoku Pilgrimage reaches its "kechigan," or completion. Sedge hats and staffs left by pilgrims in the mountains, and a great ginkgo and maples in autumn.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryYASHIMA-JI TEMPLE
Temple 84 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage on the summit of Yashima. The only pilgrimage temple founded by the monk Ganjin, with a shrine to Tasaburo, one of Japan's three great tanuki.
temple_buddhistArt & HistoryHONJIMA ISLAND
35 min by boat from Marugame Port. Home of the Shiwaku seafarers, with the preserved village of Kasashima and the Shiwaku Kinbansho holding seals from Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu.