Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Tourists walk through a narrow shaft at the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine in a photo taken in May 2007. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001123448
  • Registered date
  • 2007/6/28 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2007 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1177 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 844.36(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    FAO adds Shizuoka, Kumamoto, Oita to agricultural heritage list

    FAO adds Shizuoka, Kumamoto, Oita to agricultural heritage list

    KANAZAWA, Japan - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's international conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems opens in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, on May 29, 2013. The FAO decided the same day to add three areas in Japan's Shizuoka, Kumamoto and Oita prefectures to its world agricultural heritage list.
      Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

      Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

      CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A photo taken in May 2007 shows the hot spring resort town of Yunotsu that leads up to the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine at Mt. Sennoyama in the background. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site.
        (1)UNESCO adds Japanese sites to World Heritage list

        (1)UNESCO adds Japanese sites to World Heritage list

        HONGU, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee decided July 1 in Suzhou, China, to include in its heritage list the holy grounds and pilgrimage path in the Kii mountains straddling central and western Japan. Kumano-Hongu Shrine (in photo) in Hongu, Wakayama Prefecture, is located in the heritage district. (Kyodo)
          (1)UNESCO adds Japanese sites to World Heritage list

          (1)UNESCO adds Japanese sites to World Heritage list

          HONGU, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee decided July 1 in Suzhou, China, to include in its heritage list the holy grounds and pilgrimage path in the Kii mountains straddling central and western Japan. Kumano-Hongu Shrine (in photo) in Hongu, Wakayama Prefecture, is located in the heritage district.