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GunmaShrines & TemplesBehind the main hall stands a great rock called Misugata-iwa, and that rock is the deity itself. The building is no more than a frame for worshipping it. The approach runs about 700 metres along the gorge.
GunmaShrines & TemplesThe temple where the Takasaki daruma began. Doll making, started as off-season work for farmers, became the local industry it is today.
GunmaShrines & TemplesA great rock into which the main hall appears to be set. The building is only a frame for worshipping the rock.
GunmaShrines & TemplesForty-one point eight metres tall. It was a pioneer among Kannon figures built of reinforced concrete.
GunmaShrines & TemplesHundreds of thousands of daruma fill the new year market. Off-season farm work became a local industry.
GunmaNature & Scenery
GunmaArchitectureEight in ten daruma made in Japan come from here. The eyebrows are cranes, the moustache a tortoise.
GunmaArt & CraftsArata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.
GunmaArt & CraftsIn its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
GunmaMuseumsGunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.
GunmaArt & CraftsEight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.
The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.
GunmaArchitectureHalls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.
GunmaMuseumsA land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.
GunmaArchitectureA large theatre by the station, designed around acoustics as home to the Gunma Symphony.