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A serene 41.8-metre goddess of mercy in gleaming white concrete stands on a hill above Takasaki — you climb a staircase inside her body, past tiny windows, all the way up to her shoulders.
One of the tallest statues on Earth: a 120-metre bronze Buddha visible from miles across the Ibaraki plain, with an elevator inside that lifts you to a viewing deck in its chest.
