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TochigiShrines & TemplesA different shrine from the Futarasan at Nikko, and it too claims to be the first shrine of Shimotsuke Province. The place name Utsunomiya is said to come from the way this shrine was called, Ichinomiya.
TochigiShrines & TemplesA Kannon 27 metres high, carved into the wall of a worked-out Oya stone quarry.
TochigiMuseums
TochigiMuseumsA vast underground quarry. It averages 8 degrees year round and is used as a film location.
TochigiHistoric DistrictsRepatriates brought the taste back from Manchuria. The city competes for the top spot in national consumption.
TochigiArt & CraftsOne of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
TochigiArt & CraftsA low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
TochigiArt & CraftsA Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
TochigiArchitectureThe soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.
TochigiMuseumsA general museum juxtaposing the two cultural spheres of the province, Nikko and Ashikaga.
TochigiContemporary ArtThe quarry void is now used for exhibitions and performance, the space itself part of the work.
TochigiArchitectureA Romanesque church built of Oya stone, among the largest surviving Oya-stone buildings and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
TochigiContemporary ArtA civic gallery that keeps the base of the local art scene in constant exhibition.