Important Cultural Property of Shimane

Izumo Hinomisaki Lighthouse rises 43.65 metres, Japan's tallest stone tower. Built in 1903, its double wall pairs cut stone with brick. Important Cultural Property, 2022.

Unjuji Shikyakumon in Yasugi, Shimane, is an early Muromachi four-legged gate designated in 1904. It outlasted the 1820 fire that took most of the temple's halls.

Beside the National Treasure main hall of Kamosu Shrine in Matsue stands a rare two-bay shrine of 1583, built to hold Kifune and Inari under one shingled roof.

Kandenan and Kogetsutei in Matsue, Shimane, are tea rooms built around 1792 to daimyo Matsudaira Fumai's own drawing. A 42cm board keeps the one-mat room open.

Former Taisha Station in Izumo, Shimane, built in 1924, is one of only three station buildings holding Important Cultural Property status. It reopened in 2026.

The Main Hall of Kiyomizudera in Yasugi, Shimane, built in 1393, is the only building on Mount Zuiko to survive sixteenth-century warfare. Entry is free.

The main hall of Someha Amenoiwakatsu Shrine in Masuda, Shimane, built in 1583, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated in 1929.

The halls of Takuhi Shrine on Nishinoshima in the Oki Islands, built 1673 to 1902 and set into the mountain rock, honour a guardian of sailors on the Sea of Japan.

A late Edo farmhouse in Yoshika, Shimane, 7.6 by 6.0 metres with a thatched hip-and-gable roof, showing the form of a small ordinary farmhouse. Designated in 1969.

An 18th-century farmhouse in Unnan, Shimane, and an Important Cultural Property. Its great hall is held open without posts by raised nobori-bari beams.

Built in 1374, the Main Hall of Manpuku-ji in Masuda, Shimane is a National Important Cultural Property. The seven-by-seven-bay hip-roofed hall preserves Kamakura-period architectural traditions, and behind it lies one of Sesshu Toyo's celebrated four great gardens, together evoking the cultural flowering of the medieval Masuda clan.

On the rugged island of Dōgo in Japan's remote Oki Islands stands Mizuwakasu Shrine, the highest-ranked shrine of the former Oki Province. Its Main Hall, rebuilt in 1795, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property celebrated for its rare Oki-zukuri architectural style — a hybrid found nowhere else in Japan. With its dramatic thatched gable roof, ancient pine-lined approach, classical sumo ring, and biennial festival of yamabiki and yabusame, this shrine offers travelers a profound encounter with island spirituality and over a thousand years of recorded history.

The main hall of Miho Shrine at Mihonoseki, Matsue, built in 1813, joins two taisha-style halls for Ebisu and Mihotsuhime, the largest and oldest of its kind.

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