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- Art House Project Seven abandoned houses turned into artworks: the first, ‘Kadoya’, was restored in 1998.
- Benesse House Museum Open since 1992, it is also a hotel: each of the 65 rooms has a different work.
- Chichibugahama At low tide, with no wind and at sunset, 1 kilometre of sand becomes a mirror.
- Chichu Art Museum Almost entirely underground, with five of Monet's Water Lilies in a room designed specifically for them.
- Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Open for visits only on Tue/Thu/Sat, three sessions a day by booking, one group at a time.
- Kanamaru-za Japan's oldest kabuki theatre, dating from 1835, still runs its stage and trapdoor by hand.
- Kankakei Gorge Thirteen million years of erosion; the ropeway has run without a single accident since 1963.
- Kotohira-gū 785 steps to the shrine, 1,368 in all: patron of seafarers since the nineteenth century.
- Kusama Yayoi's Yellow Pumpkin On the pier since 1994, broken in three by the 2021 typhoon; today it has hooks to keep it safe.
- Lee Ufan Museum The world's first museum devoted to a single Korean-Japanese artist, half underground.
- Marugame Castle Walls 60 metres high in four tiers, the tallest in Japan; original tenshu from 1660.
- Marugame Uchiwa Museum 90% of Japan's uchiwa are made here, in a museum that moved in 2023.
- Naoshima Sentō ‘I♥湯’ A real public bath since 2009: a collage by Ōtake Shinrō over baths, walls and bathroom fixtures.
- Ogijima 160 residents: a minshuku owner says eight in ten guests come for the cats.
- Ōkubo-ji Temple number 88, the last one: every spring the pilgrims’ staffs are burned here.
- Onigashima Cave 400 metres of cave dug by hand, opened in 1931 as the lair of the oni of legend.
- Ritsurin Kōen Six ponds, thirteen artificial hills, a thousand pines tended over a hundred years of work.
- Shikoku Mura 33 historic buildings moved from around Shikoku; the gallery alongside them is by Tadao Ando.
- Sunport Takamatsu 151 metres, the tallest skyscraper in Shikoku, above the square of the August fireworks.
- Takamatsu Arcade (Marugame-machi) 2.7 km of covered arcade, the longest in Japan, with a dome 32 metres high.
- Takamatsu Castle (Tamamo Kōen) Moats of seawater, not river water; it is the largest sea castle in Japan.
- Teshima Art Museum A 40x60-metre concrete shell without a single pillar, shaped like a drop of water.
- Yamagoe Udon Started in 1951 as a factory, it became a restaurant when the neighbours turned up with their bowls.
- Yashima An island until the nineteenth century: 292 m of lava, in Japan's first national park (1934).
- Zentsuji Kūkai was born here in 774. The current pagoda, the fourth, has stood 43 metres tall since 1902.