Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Shimane Prefecture
Detourmap lists 35 places in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine. 29 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 35
- Oldest
- Lake Shinji 8000 BC
- Little known
- 29 of 35
- Share of Japan
- 3%
Shimane Prefecture 35
All 35, best known first.
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8.Nishinoshima Island
Nature · Hidden gem
Island of the Oki archipelago in Shimane prefecture, Japan
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15.Yamashiro Futagozuka Kofun
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Kofun period burial mound in Matsue, Japan
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16.Okadayama Kofun
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Kofun period burial mound in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
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34.Tokurenba Kofun
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Kofun period burial mound in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Elsewhere in Japan
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Shimane Prefecture?
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, 16th century. Mine. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Shimane Prefecture?
35: 21 archaeological & historic sites and 14 nature & landscapes. 29 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Shimane Prefecture?
Lake Shinji, dated to 8000 BC. 3 of the 35 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Shimane Prefecture here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Shimane Prefecture if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Shimane Prefecture is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.
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.