page_title: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
section_title: Components
hierarchical_section_title: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine / World Heritage Site / Components
caption_attribution_description: English: Iwami_Silver_Mine_Museum (Ruins of the Oomori prefectural governor's office) in Ōda, Shimane prefecture, Japan. It was registered as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape". 日本語: 石見銀山資料館（大森代官所跡）。所在地は島根県大田市。ユネスコ世界文化遺産「石見銀山遺跡とその文化的景観」の一部。
context_page_description: The Iwami Ginzan was an underground silver mine in the city of Ōda, in Shimane Prefecture on the main island of Honshu, Japan. It was the largest silver mine in Japanese history. It was active for almost four hundred years, from its discovery in 1526 to its closing in 1923.
  The mines, mining structures, and surrounding cultural landscape — listed as the "Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape" — became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.
context_section_description: The fourteen nominated components assessed by ICOMOS are:
  the mining area of Ginzan Sakunouchi (銀山柵内)
  the Daikansho site
  Yataki Castle site (矢滝城跡)
  Yahazu Castle site (矢筈城跡)
  Iwami Castle site (石見城跡)
  the mining settlement of Ōmori Ginzan (大森銀山)
  the silver refining facilities of Miyanomae (宮ノ前地区)
  the House of the Kumagai Family (熊谷家住宅)
  the temple Rakan-ji Gohyakurakan (羅漢寺)
  Iwami Ginzan Kaidō Tomogauradō transportation route
  Iwami Ginzan Kaidō Yunotsu-Okidomaridō transportation route
  Tomogaura (鞆ヶ浦) service port/port town
  Okidomari (沖泊) service port/port town
  Yunotsu (温泉津) service port/port town
caption: the Daikansho site (Ruins of the Oomori prefectural governor's office)
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