Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
Machi Meguri Map: Japan’s Cultural-Property Walks
A searchable guide to roughly 17,000 nationally designated historic buildings in Japan, with an iPhone app for recording visits.
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- Travelers exploring Japan’s historic buildings
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- Its themed collections include buildings that survived fires, relocated buildings, and the 12 castles with surviving Edo-period keeps.
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The navigation reaches down to municipalities and individual categories; the homepage, for example, lists 2,189 temples and 735 sake-brewery and brewing buildings. Its themed collections pose questions about why certain buildings survived or were moved, adding a story-led route through the directory. The site credits the Agency for Cultural Affairs' database under CC BY 4.0 and notes that its mapped locations may be offset from the actual sites.
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