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- Awa Jūrōbē Residence (阿波十郎兵衛屋敷) Every day at 11:00 and 14:00, the story of the samurai executed in 1698, told with puppets.
- Awa Odori Kaikan (阿波おどり会館) Live Awa Odori every day, four times: there is dancing even outside the 4 days in August.
- Escahiru Naruto (エスカヒル鳴門) It opened in 1989 with 68 m of panoramic escalator: you reach the top in about 3 minutes.
- Iya Kazurabashi (祖谷のかずら橋) 45 m of real vines, 14 above the river: it is rebuilt from scratch every three years, a month's work.
- Iya Onsen (祖谷温泉) A funicular with a 42° gradient goes down in 5 minutes to the hot bath on the river.
- Mount Bizan (眉山) A 6-minute ropeway ride up to 290 m: the night view here is the best in the prefecture.
- Mount Tsurugi (剣山) 1,955 m, the second-highest peak in western Japan: the chairlift climbs to 1,750 m in 15 minutes.
- Nagoro — the scarecrow village (天空の村・名頃かかしの里) 300 scarecrows in a closed school: each one has a name in the ‘village register’.
- Naruto Doitsukan — Bandō camp museum (鳴門市ドイツ館) On 1 June 1918, German prisoners here gave the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth in Japan.
- Ōasahiko Shrine (大麻比古神社) In 1919 German prisoners built a stone bridge behind the shrine.
- Oboke Gorge (大歩危峡) Natural Monument since 2014: the Yoshino River has cut for kilometres through blue-green schist.
- Ōkawara Plateau (大川原高原) 15 Siemens turbines, 60 m tall, generate 19.5 MW; in July, 10,000 hydrangeas at 900 m altitude.
- Oku-Iya Double Vine Bridge (奥祖谷二重かずら橋) Two ‘husband and wife’ vine bridges: the male one is 42 m long, the female one 22.
- Otsuka Museum of Art (大塚国際美術館) Over 1,000 Western masterpieces on ceramic, full-size, from 26 different countries.
- Ryōzenji — first temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage (霊山寺) Here Kūkai prayed for 21 days and carved the 1.2 m Buddha that opens Shikoku's 88 temples.
- Shōben-kozō, the boy above the Iya Gorge (祖谷渓・小便小僧) A statuette on a rock 200 m above the river, a test of courage for the road workers.
- Tairyūji Ropeway (太龍寺ロープウェイ) 2,775 m, the longest ropeway in western Japan: it climbs to temple 21 of the pilgrimage.
- Tokushima Castle (徳島城) Walls of green stone that brightens in the rain: the castle was pulled down in 1875.
- Tokushima Zoo (とくしま動物園) A free-flight aviary 40 metres across, in a park that is also a botanical garden.
- Uzu no Michi — the whirlpool walkway (渦の道) 45 m above the sea, glass floor: below, whirlpools that reach 20 m at the big spring tides.
- Wakimachi Udatsu Neighbourhood (脇町うだつの町並み) 430 m of Meiji houses with stucco firewalls: the indigo house of 1792 still stands.