UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan

Japan has 27 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Most are not one place but several: Ancient Kyoto alone is 17 temples, shrines and a castle across three cities. Here every place we cover is listed under the inscription it belongs to.

World Heritage site

Prefecture

Himeji-jo

Cultural site, inscribed 1993 · 1 place · UNESCO listing

Castle World Heritage

Hyogo

Himeji Castle

Japan's Most Spectacular Castle

Japan's best preserved feudal castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the White Heron Castl...

Himeji, Hyogo, Japan