Japan - Unesco Yakushima Island

Sender: Midori JP-1963881 ninetails

Japan - Phoenix Hall of Byodoin Temple, Uji - Unesco Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

Sender: Maimai - JP-1945996 

Japan - Unesco Shiretoko

 

Shiretoko is one of the richest integrated ecosystems in the world. Encompassing both terrestrial and marine areas the property is located in the northeast of Hokkaido and is comprised of a part of the Shiretoko Peninsula, which protrudes into the Sea of Okhotsk and the surrounding marine areas.

The extraordinarily high productivity of the marine and terrestrial component of the property, produced and largely influenced by the formation of seasonal sea ice at the lowest latitude in the northern hemisphere, and the prominent interaction between the marine and terrestrial ecosystems are the key features of Shiretoko. The supply of nutrient-rich intermediate water resulting from the formation of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk allows successive primary trophic productions including blooms of phytoplankton in early spring, which underpins Shiretoko’s marine ecosystem. This in turn sustains the food sources for terrestrial species, including the brown bear and Blakiston’s fish-owl, through salmonid species swimming upstream to spawn. The property is globally important for a number of marine species, globally threatened seabirds and migratory birds.

The terrestrial ecosystem has various types of virgin vegetation reflecting the complex topography and weather conditions of the property, and serves as a habitat for a rich and diverse range of fauna and flora including endangered and endemic species such as Viola kitamiana.

Sender: Noriko

Japan - Unesco Shirakami-Sanchi

 

Shirakami-Sanchi World Heritage Property is a wilderness area covering one third of Shirakami mountain range with the largest remaining virgin beech forest in East Asia. The property is located along the Sea of Japan in northern Honshu at an altitude ranging from 100 to 1,243 m above sea level. It is the remnant of the cool-temperate beech forests that have covered the hills and mountain slopes of northern Japan since eight to twelve thousand years ago.

Sender: Noriko

Japan - Unesco Ogasawara Islands

Sent from Japans 2nd southernmost postoffice

Ogasawara Islands consists of about 30 islands about 1000kms off the coast of Tokyo.  Only 2 are inhabitated.

Sender: Noriko

 

Japan - WordCloud. Kumano Nachi Taisha Shrine - Unesco Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range of Japan.

Sender: Noriko

Sender: Hazel

Japan - Unesco Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

Shirakawa-go

Sender: Suzuneko JP-1929726 - official postcrossing

Shirakawa-Go sent from Hiroshima by

Gian 

Shirakagawa 

Sender: Dini

Japan - Heian Jingu Shrine - Unesco Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

Kozan-ji temple in Kyoto

Sender: Akiko

Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto

Sender: Akito

Japan - Hashima Island - Unesco Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

Sender: Akiko

Japan - Unesco Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

Ganbaku-Dome

Sender: Gian

Atomic Bomb Dome

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

Todai-ji temple, Nara 

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land

Chuson-ji temple "Konjiki-do", Iwate Pref. 

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto

To-Ji Temple in Kyoto

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Itsukushima Shinto Shrine

Sender: Akito

• Itsukushima Shinto Shrinein Miyajima, Hiroshima Pref.
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• Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration

Sender: Itoh JP-2241874

Sender Akito

Mount Fuji - Honshu Island, Chubu Pref.

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Shrines and Temples of Nikko

Yomeimon Gate, Nikko Toshogu shrine, Tochigi pref.

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Shuri Castle - Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu, Okinawa Islands

Okinawa-ken is Japan's southernmost prefecture, consisting of a few dozen, small islands in the southern half of the Nansei Shoto, the island chain which stretches over about one thousand kilometers from Kyushu to Taiwan.

Okinawa Prefecture can be divided into three major island groups, the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa Shoto) around Okinawa Island (Okinawa Honto), the Miyako Islands (Miyako Retto) around Miyako Island and the Yaeyama Islands (Yaeyama Retto) around Ishigaki Island.

The islands making up Okinawa Prefecture, are also known as the Ryukyu Islands, named after the native culture, which is distinctly different from that of the rest of Japan in terms of language, cuisine, arts, etc.

Towards the end of WW2, Okinawa became the stage of one of the war's bloodiest battles, when American troops invaded the islands. Okinawa remained under US administration until 1972, while several thousands of US military members remain stationed on the spacious and controversial US military bases on Okinawa Main Island today.

Sender: Ren

Japan - Unesco Himeji-jo

Sender: Misao

Japan - Unesco Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

Sender: Hazel