TochigiArchitectureTochigi
Okada Memorial Museum
The estate of a family of village heads for 550 years, its sukiya-style annex exceptional in materials.
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TochigiArchitectureNogi
Nogi Brick Kiln
A sixteen-sided Hoffmann kiln for continuous brick firing - one of only four left in Japan.
TochigiArchitectureUtsunomiya
Matsugamine Catholic Church
A Romanesque church built of Oya stone, among the largest surviving Oya-stone buildings and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
TochigiArchitectureNikko
Nikko Temple Town
A pilgrimage town whose inns and shopfronts layer centuries of visitors.
TochigiArchitectureTochigi
Uzuma River and Black Fences
Black fences run the length of the river - a logistics structure that became the town's face.
TochigiArchitectureMoka
Moka Railway Steam Locomotive
A station built in the shape of a steam locomotive - machinery translated into architecture.
GunmaArchitectureMaebashi
Shiroiya Hotel
Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.
GunmaArchitecture
GunmaArchitectureKiryu
Kiryu Shinmachi Historic District
Saw-toothed weaving sheds, built for north light, stand mixed among the townhouses.
GunmaArchitecture
GunmaArchitectureNakanojo
Sekizenkan
Among Japan's oldest surviving hot-spring inn buildings, its 1691 wing and red arched bridge still in use.
Takasaki
Senshintei, Bruno Taut's House
The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.
GunmaArchitectureTakasaki
Carvings of Haruna Shrine
Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.
GunmaArchitectureTomioka
Nukisaki Shrine
Worshippers descend to reach the sanctuary - a rare inversion - past halls lacquered and painted for Iemitsu.
GunmaArchitectureTomioka
Myogi Shrine
Backed by the jagged Myogi peaks, its black-lacquered halls carry a density of gilt carving close to Nikko's.
GunmaArchitecture
GunmaArchitectureAnnaka
Usui Third Bridge
Two million bricks in four arches, 31 metres high - Japan's largest brick bridge.
GunmaArchitectureShimonita
Arafune Cold Storage and Tajima Yahei House
Silkworm eggs stored in natural rock cold air, and the ventilated farmhouse that standardised sericulture.
GunmaArchitectureFujioka
Takayama-sha Sericulture School
The school that taught the ventilation-and-heat method of silkworm rearing to all Japan.
GunmaArchitectureShibukawa
Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon
A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.
GunmaArchitectureShibukawa
Ikaho Stone Steps
A hot-spring town planned around a stairway, with the water distributed in conduits beneath the steps.
GunmaArchitectureTatebayashi
Former Jomo Muslin Office
A wool company's pseudo-Western office of 1910, a relic of Gunma's textile industry.
GunmaArchitectureKanra
Obata Historic Street
A castle town where an irrigation channel runs in front of every house, water and street plan designed as one.
GunmaArchitectureAnnaka
Usui Pass Railway Structures
The abandoned rack railway over the pass, its tunnels and bridges all in matching brick.