Aizu Sazaedo
A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.
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A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.
The only castle keep in Japan roofed in red tiles - glazed to survive the Aizu frost.
A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.
Fukushima's only National Treasure building, raised by a daughter of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and designed with its reflection in mind.
Over 4,000 storehouses in a town of 50,000 - some built as living rooms, not storage.
A hall of 44 pillars and a roof, with no walls at all - Heian architecture at its most open.
A post town of thatched houses lining the old highway, its power lines buried to keep the Edo view.
A village of 500 has staged its own kabuki for 270 years, the audience seated on stone steps.
An imperial prince's Renaissance-style villa above Lake Inawashiro, its original furniture intact.
The seat of Aizu Buddhism, its main hall rebuilt in timber from excavation evidence.
Opened to all classes in 1801 by Matsudaira Sadanobu - arguably Japan's first public park.
A Dutch engineer's canal that turned moorland into farmland - a designated Japan Heritage landscape.
A wealthy landowner's estate at Iizaka hot spring, its 18-metre storehouse showing rural merchant scale.
An 1883 district office in pseudo-Western style, showing how provincial officialdom absorbed the West.
Aizu keeps many Edo-period breweries, their brewing halls framed in massive timber.
Arched railway bridges over a gorge, drawing photographers who treat the train as part of the composition.
Its turret rebuilt in real timber; after the 2011 quake the stone walls were reassembled stone by numbered stone.
The Nihonmatsu castle site, its restored gate standing among meticulously trained pines.