Western Japan World Heritage Tours and Travel

The Mozu-Furuichi Group is scattered acrossOsaka Prefecture Sakai City, Habikino City, and Fujiidera City in Osaka Prefecture.
During the heyday of the Kofun period from the late 4th century to the late 5th century, kofun were built all over Japan, modelled on the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group. The fact that kofun are diverse in size and shape, ranging from keyhole-shaped tombs that are unique in the world and reach lengths of nearly 500 meters to burial mounds of around 20 meters, reflects the actual political and social control of the time, and is considered to be physical evidence suggesting that there was a unique Bunka tradition in kofun construction, and was registered as a World Bunka Site in 2019.

The Himeji castle, which looks like a Shirasagi dancing in the sky, is also known as the Betsumyo Shirasagi castle (hakurojo).
This Himeji castle is said to be a masterpiece of architectural technology from the Azuchi Momoyama and early Edo eras, and was designated as the most complete military and artistic Bunka property Dec. and Horyuji together with Japan the first World Cultural Heritage Site in 1993.
Himeji Tokugawa The castle was built by Terumasa Ieyasu's second daughter, Princess Norimasa, as his wife Ikeda. It took eight years from 1601, the year after the Battle of Sekigahara, to build the five-story, seven-story castle tower.

It spans Wakayama, Nara and Mie prefectures and is divided into three sacred sites: "Yoshino-Omine" including Mount Yoshino, "Kumano" including Kumano Sanzan and "Koyasan" including Kongobu-ji Temple, as well as pilgrimage routes (Kumano Kodo) such as the Omine Okugakemichi, Nakahechi, Iseji and Koyasan Choishimichi. The decisive factor for its inscription was that it provides exceptional evidence of the development of Japanese religious culture over more than a thousand years, proving the fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, and the exchange and development of religious culture in East Asia.

Iwami Ginzan is Japan largest Ginzan (now closed), which reached its peak from the late Sengoku period to the early Edo period. Generally, Ginzan Kaihotsu requires a large amount of Motegi firewood and charcoal to refine the silver.
Iwami Ginzan has been Kaihotsu with minimal environmental impact thanks to proper forest management, and forests including broadleaf trees remain in the area around Ginzan. This was recognized and the mine was registered as Cultural heritage site in 2007.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, is a memorial (a building damaged by the atomic bomb) that conveys to the present day the devastation caused by the Harako bomb dropped on Hiroshima City, Japan.
It originally opened as Hiroshima Prefecture Products Exhibition Hall, and at the time of the atomic bombing it was called Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall.
It has been registered as a World Heritage Site (Cultural heritage) so that "such a tragedy will never happen again."
It is also called a 'negative World Heritage Site,' with the intention of serving as a cautionary reminder or expressing a certain wish.

Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture Hatsukaichi City Miyajima Town, was registered as a cultural heritage site in 1996 in recognition of its unique shrine architecture, which combines a group of buildings built on Kaisho with the primeval forest of Yayama behind it, and the fact that many of the buildings are characteristic of the Shinden Cultural zukuri style of architecture from Heian period.

Yakushima The World Natural Heritage Area covers an area of 10,747 hectares, or approximately 20% of the total area of the
The area in question overlaps Kunitate Park and part of the Forest Ecosystem Protection Area, as well as the entirety of the Wilderness Conservation Area and the National Natural Monument (Yakushima Cedar Primitive Forest), and ranges from an evergreen forest zone with subtropical elements near the Kaigan line to cedar forest zone in the mountains and Yakshima bamboo grassland zone.

The site was registered in recognition of the fact that rituals using many ornaments were performed in prayer for safe voyages and other such purposes, that this belief has been passed down to the present day as a belief unique to Japan, and that a group of ruins related to the powerful ancient clans who held the right to perform the rituals have been left behind, and that this belief continues to this day.

The "Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of the Ryukyu" scattered across Okinawa Prefecture were registered as Cultural Japan Higashinan the Ryukyu Kingdom to the present day, and that they convey Okinawa 's traditional forms of faith, such as cultural worship and ancestor worship.

Registered as a "World Natural Heritage Site" Jul. 2021
Kagoshima Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture

Kagoshima Prefecture of Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, Okinawa Prefecture , Okinawa Motojima Hokubu, Iriomote The island is registered as a World Natural Heritage site in 2021 as a valuable area of remaining biodiversity with many globally rare and endemic species.