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Places worth the detour in Matsue

12 places worth going out of your way for lie within 12 km of Matsue, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (9). Best known: Lake Shinji. 11 of them rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

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Within 12 km
12
Oldest
Lake Shinji 8000 BC
Little known
11 of 12
Most from
8th millennium BC
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Lake Shinji
Lake Shinji · Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

All 12, ranked 12

Ranked by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

9 of 12

Within reach of Matsue

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Questions about this page

What is worth seeing near Matsue?

12 places within 12 km: 9 archaeological & historic sites and 3 nature & landscapes. The best known is Lake Shinji.

Is there anything near Matsue that most visitors miss?

11 of these 12 places rank as little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages, which is usually the difference between a queue and an empty path. They are in the ranked list below, furthest down.

What is the oldest thing near Matsue?

Lake Shinji, dated to 8000 BC.

How is the 12 km radius measured?

As the crow flies from the centre of Matsue, not by driving time. A place inside the circle can still be a long way round by road, and the distance to each is on its card on the map.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.