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Near the western shore of Sado Island you will find one of Japan’s most impressive industrial heritage sites - The ruins of the Kitazawa flotation plant. Built during the first half of the 1900s, this was once the biggest producers of ore in East Asia.\nA flotation plant is a site where the final stages of gold mining takes place. More precisely, it’s where the valuable minerals that get extracted from the mine are separated from all the other things that get dug out, such as waste materials and other bi-products. The flotation process requires vast areas of land as well as huge amounts of energy. As the gold mine of Sado used to be the biggest in the entire East Asian region, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the flotation plant is a huge structure. Several new techniques that led to a more efficient ore extraction process were also pioneered here.
Himeji,Japan- June 4, 2022: Himeji Castle is a Japanese castle located in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture. It was built in the early Edo period. It is designated as a national treasure. Another name is Shirasagi Castle.
Oyu Stone Circle, Akita Prefecture
Kyoto, Japan - October 9, 2023: The Yasaka Pagoda and Sannen Zaka Street with no people in the street, Gion district in Kyoto, Japan at night.
On a sunny day in July 2024, the Chiran Samurai Residences, a beautiful, well-organized streetscape, is located in Chiran Town, Minamikyushu City, Kagoshima Prefecture.
View fron entrance of Japanese garden at Chion-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. Meditation hall is in background. It is Japanese type rock garden presenting miniature landscape. It is carefully arranged meditation place with rocks, water, or water features, sand, moss, trees and bushes .
Kyoto, Japan – September 30th, 2023: Tower of Yasaka, Hokan-ji Temple or Yasaka Pagoda, 46 meter tall, in Kyoto, Japan.
Ueno Tosho-gu Five-Story Pagoda was built originally in 1631 and rebuilt in 1939. It is 36 meter high and is designated as National Important Cultural Property.\nIlex rotunda, commonly called Kurogane holly, is an evergreen tree in the family of Aquiafoliaceae. It is native to East Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan and Vietnam). It has spineless leaves and clusters of bright-red bellies from late autumn to winter (November to January).
Kyoto,Japan, 21 November 2014: people set up the store in To-ji  market in Kyoto . To ji market or East temple market is the flea market in Day 21 only in each month
A symbolic modern heritage: the greatest flotation plant in the East\n\nThe Kitazawa area in Aikawa is home to a group of facilities, such as a power plant and a thickener (designated National Historical Site), which contributed to the modernization of mines. The flotation method had originally been used for copper beneficiation, but at Kitazawa Flotation Plant, the technniques were applied to silver and gold extraction, and successfully utilized for the first time in the world. Under a war-time increase in production plan, large-scale investment was made. As a result, the Flotation Plant was able to process over 50,000 tonnes of ore per month, and the plant was declared the greatest one in the East.
Wakkanai Park, Cape Soya, Hokkaido Island - Japan
Famous ancient buildings in China
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Kochi,Japan – April,28 2014:This is the wall of a Japanese castle. Kochi Castle in Kochi City.Built in 1601.\nThe stones for the castle walls are piled up by a method called Nozurazumi.\nNozurazumi is a method of stacking natural stones and split stones as they are without processing.Fill the gaps between the stones with small stones.\nNozurazumi stone walls are strong, and the gaps disperse the pressure caused by tremors, making them strong against earthquakes.\nIt has survived countless crises such as fires, earthquakes, the nationwide abandonment of castles due to the Meiji Restoration, and the Pacific War, and it still stands today.
Hagi Reverberatory furnace
Nara, Japan - May 31, 2016: Kofuku-Ji Gojunoto, the five story Pagoda.
Kyoto, Japan - November 21, 2015: Daigoji Temple is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. Daigo-ji was founded in the early Heian period.
the Day of Arafat as part of the rites of the Hajj Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia near Mecca.
Old Buddhist temple abandoned site, South Korea
Luoxingdun Ancient Building, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China Asia
Tokyio, Japan. January 2024.  Memorial to the Land Traffic Accident Victims at the Tsukiji Hongan-ji buddhism temple in the city center
Aizu Hanko Nisshin-Kan Samurai School entrance in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan. This museum is a faithful reconstitution of the original Samurai School at the foot of the white castle.
Suzakumon Gate of Heijo Palace. Nara, Japan.
Kyoto, Japan-November 26, 2021:\nFive-storied pagoda of Toji Temple and autumn leaf color, illuminatedocated in the southern section of Kyoto. \nToji Temple was founded in 796, two years after the capital was transferred to Kyoto. Toji Temple (literally means \
Asian girls who enjoy traveling at Tofuku-ji Temple, Kyoto
stone buddhist pagoda
Beijing, China - June 26, 2021: Sun Chuanfang's cemetery, Chinese traditional cemetery architectural landscape, Beijing Botanical Garden
East Lake Cherry Blossom Garden in Wuhan, Hubei, China
Morioka, Iwate, Japan - November 2019 : Autumn in Morioka castle site park, Morioka city, Iwate, Japan. Morioka Castle is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611.
Xichan Temple Park Temple, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province
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