Before the conclusion of my second 3-month stay in Golden Sands, Bulgaria (and on the occasion of a Robert Wilson production of The Tempest by Shakespeare at the National Theater …
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I was born in Japan, lived most of my life in Los Angeles, CA, but am currently changing country of residence every 3 months within Europe.
My most impressive site: Glacier Bay, Mt. Athos, Masada, Skellig Michael
My proposal for a new site: Jingu, Ise, Japan; Atsuta-jingu, Nagoya, Japan; Izumo-taisha, Izumo, Japan; Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan; Chion-In, Kyoto, Japan; Eihei-ji, Fukui, Japan; Kuon-ji, Yamanashi, Japan; Bodai-ji, Aomori, Japan; Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, USA; Arches NP, Utah, USA; The Wave, Arizona, USA; Coso Rock Art District, California, USA; Inyo National Forest (White Mountain area), California, USA; Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, California, USA; The Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy; Hisarya, Bulgaria
Recent Visits
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20April 4, 2025Hopewell, San Antonio Missions
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50July 27, 2024Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu, Dacian Limes, Schwerin Residence Ensemble, The Flow Country, Via …
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10June 28, 2024Vatnajökull National Park
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agrigento
- Albi
- Altamira Cave
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Aquileia
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arles
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Białowieża Forest
- Biblical Tells
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Butrint
- Cahokia Mounds
- Camino Real
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Centennial Hall
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Chaîne des Puys
- Champagne
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Moldavia
- Churches of Peace
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Cordoba
- Cordouan Lighthouse
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Delta
- Danube Limes
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Delos
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- Eisinga Planetarium
- El Escurial
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Gammelstad
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Gulf of California
- Gulf of Porto
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Heritage of Mercury
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ibiza
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Island of Patmos
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Ivrea
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Jelling
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines
- Kuldiga
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laponian Area
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Madara Rider
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Modernist Kaunas
- Monastery of Horezu
- Monte San Giorgio
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Mostar
- Mount Athos
- Mount Etna
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nancy
- Naples
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nessebar
- Nesvizh
- New Lanark
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Odesa
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Rauma
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Orange
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Plitvice Lakes
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rhodes
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roșia Montană
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Shiretoko
- ShUM Sites
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stećci
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studenica Monastery
- Studley Royal Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Teotihuacan
- Te Wahipounamu
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Prosecco Hills
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Tikal National Park
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Troy
- Tugendhat Villa
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Val di Noto
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vegaøyan
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Visby
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Yaroslavl
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Zagori Cultural Landscape
- Zamość
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Zollverein
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- Alexandrovo Thracian Tomb
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Phil
- Central Balkan National Park
- Magoura cave
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- Rocks of Belogradchik
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- The Bachkovo Monastery
- The Roussensky Lom National Park
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuth
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Two neolithic dwellings
- Vratsa Karst Nature Reserve
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- Angkor 4.71
- Galapagos Islands 4.62
- Machu Picchu 4.62
- Petra 4.61
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.50
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Bagan 4.44
- Great Wall 4.44
- Serengeti 4.41
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Roșia Montană (Inscribed)
Roșia Montană
Romanian people are nice!
That is the first thing I would like to say, even after the several predicaments I encountered trying to get in and get out of …

Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. And… (On tentative list)
Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches
So Ukraine wants to add 2 more churches to the existing Kyiv WHS: St. Andrew's Church and St. Cyril's Church.
St. Andrew's Church is located only a few minutes …

Coastal Cliffs (On tentative list)
Coastal Cliffs
Coastal Cliffs: Fifla Islet
On my 4th day in Malta, from Valletta I visited Mdina TWHS and Maltese Catacomb Complexes TWHS and then took the bus 201 from Mdina …

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (Inscribed)
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
After 3 months in Bulgaria, where I managed to receive full Pfizer vaccination even though I am not a citizen or resident of Bulgaria or the EU, I flew to …

Painted Churches in the Troöd… (Inscribed)
Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
When I entered Cyprus in mid-December 2020 with intention to stay for 3 months, there was not much of lockdown. Museums and archaeological sites were open, and I was able …

Paphos (Inscribed)
Paphos
After leaving Ukraine in mid-September 2020 and spending 3 months in the Schengen Area (1/2 months in Poland and 2 1/2 months in Greece), it was time for me to …

Late Medieval Bastioned Forti… (On tentative list)
Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
The Mitilini Castle of Lesvos
In order to visit Philippi from the island of Chios where I stayed for a month in October 2020, I took a 12-hour ferry …

Island of Patmos (Inscribed)
Island of Patmos
A hole in the rock wall that might shape our future
While visiting the island of Samos from the island of Chios in mid-October 2020, due to my time …

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea… (Inscribed)
Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
Two Visits to Nea Moni of Chios
I stayed in Greece over 2 months in October and November 2020 in my attempt to live in corona-free zones. When I …

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at… (Inscribed)
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
When I visited Olympia back in 2004, Bassae appeared too difficult to reach, so I just simply skipped it. Now finally, when Greece still appeared to be a nice place …

Glacier parks (Inscribed)
Glacier parks
Lockdown may be over, but self-isolation continues. At this time what can be more relaxing than reminiscing about one of my favorite trips of all time? (Please note: Info contained …

Rostov Kremlin (On tentative list)
Rostov Kremlin
Site visited in April 2019.
Upon suggestion by a discerning member of this site, I decided to stop at this TWHS on my way from Moscow to Yaroslavl by …

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe (Inscribed)
Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
In early February 2020 I took a bus from Poitier to Saint-Savin in the evening and came back in the early afternoon on the following day to Poitier. This bus …

Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Vichy
As a Japanese who grew up taking a hot bath every evening (like everybody else does in Japan even today), I have a predilection for spas, although, living …

D-Day Landing Beaches, Norman… (Nominated)
D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
My first visit to Bayeux (and to the city of Battle in East Essex in England) several years ago had to do with the Battle of Hastings, often regarded by …

The Spa at Luhacovice (On tentative list)
The Spa at Luhacovice
I visited this TWHS after visiting the Slavonic Fortified Settlement at Mikulcice TWHS earlier in the day in January 2020. My Czech friend "R" in Brno drove me to both …

Verla Groundwood and Board Mi… (Inscribed)
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
I couldn't justify going back to Finland just to visit Verla Groundwood and Board Mill and Sammallahdenmäki to finish the Finnish sites. So, after realizing the Finland's geological similarity to …

Schokland (Inscribed)
Schokland
The Netherlands was hit by a non-hazardous Tsunami in mid-September 2019.
I based myself in Lelystad to visit 2 WHSs in northern Netherlands, as Amsterdam (or even Emmeloord) was …

Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Removed from tentat…)
Heiligenkreuz Abbey
The site is only 15 km from Vienna through the Vienna Woods.
There is no train station by this Abbey, and the only two ways to get there by …