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Sacred Places, Pilgrimage, and Tourism

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This chapter discusses some modern aspects of sacred places and tourism through two case studies. Section4.1 focused on the changes in the type of business of shops at Omotesando of the Naritasan Shinshoji-Monzenmachi, and discussed the transformation of the commercial space at Shinshoji-Monzenmachi that resulted from involvement in a landscape improvement project currently being promoted at Omotesando. Sections 4.2 and 4.3 examine the revitalization of local community through the promotion of religions tourism. Nowadays politics surrounding World Heritage designations has resulted in the important challenge of conserving and using cultural landscapes such as rural space. This chapter examines the World Heritage registration movement of the “Nagasaki Church Group and Christian Related Cultural Assets” as a case study and the meaning of and problems that local faith-related heritages in rural areas and their cultural landscapes can expect, including the attention they will be exposed to as a cultural heritage site.

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Notes

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    Of these, Ebukuro Church burnt down on February 12, 2007. The church is currently being reconstructed.

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    In the Kami-Goto region, five towns (Wakamatsu, Kami-Goto, Shinuonome, Arikawa, and Narao) merged on August 1, 2004 to become Shinkami-Goto town. The population in December 2008 was 24,139.

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Matsui, K. (2014). Sacred Places, Pilgrimage, and Tourism. In: Geography of Religion in Japan. International Perspectives in Geography, vol 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54550-7_4

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