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

Ogasawara Islands

Natural site, inscribed 2011 · 1 place · UNESCO listing

Attraction Hikyo World Heritage

Tokyo

Ogasawara Islands

Remote UNESCO World Heritage subtropical islands roughly 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, teeming...

Tokyo, Japan