ChibaArchitectureKamogawa
Fishing Hamlets of Kamogawa
Fishing hamlets packed into each cove, board-clad houses layered above stone revetments.
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ChibaArchitectureKisarazu
Shojoji of Kisarazu
The temple of the tanuki drumming song; its badger statues have made a folktale into a local emblem.
ChibaArchitectureIchinomiya
Villas of Ichinomiya
Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.
ChibaArchitectureChoshi
Choshi Electric Railway
A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.
ChibaArchitectureIchihara
Kominato Railway Stations
Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.
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ChibaArchitectureNarita
Naritasan Approach
A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.
ChibaArchitectureSakura
Dutch Windmill of Sakura
A genuine Dutch windmill shipped in pieces and assembled here, composed with the flower fields around it.
TokyoArchitectureTaito
Former Iwasaki Residence
Josiah Conder set a Jacobean mansion beside a Japanese wing, with a Swiss-style billiard house linked by tunnel.
TokyoArchitectureMinato
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT
Conceived by Issey Miyake; Tadao Ando's roof is a single folded steel plate dropping almost to the ground.
TokyoArchitectureBunkyo
St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo
Kenzo Tange's eight hyperbolic shells form a cross seen from above; inside, light falls only through a thin cruciform slit.
TokyoArchitectureKatsushika
Yamamotoyama Villa and Shibamata
A Taisho industrialist's house joining a shoin wing to Western rooms, its garden ranked among Japan's best by a US journal.
TokyoArchitectureKoganei
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
Buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here - Maekawa's own house, a bathhouse, a street of signboard shops.
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TokyoArchitectureChuo
Nihonbashi Bridge
The zero milestone of Japan's highways, guarded by winged kirin cast in bronze.
TokyoArchitectureShinjuku
Japan National Stadium
Cedar from all 47 prefectures lines the eaves, each set facing the direction of its own province.
KanagawaArchitectureKamakura
Engakuji Shariden
Rafters radiating like a fan and densely packed brackets - the perfected form of Zen-style architecture from China.
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KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Western Houses of Yamate
Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum
Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.
KanagawaArchitectureOdawara
Matsunaga Memorial Hall
The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Fujiya Hotel
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.