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Nakanooku Stele

Japan

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Nakanooku Stele (Nakanooku kuyōhi) is a stone monument erected in the Sengoku period to honor the dead of a battle between the Itō clan and the Shimazu clan, located in the Tonodokoro neighborhood of the city of Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1934.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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