KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
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Villas of Oiso
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
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Yokohama Kaigan Church
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Kawasaki Daishi
Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.
NiigataArchitectureNiigata
Former Saito Family Villa
A merchant's villa built into a dune; the garden came first, and the rooms were placed to look at it.
NiigataArchitectureMurakami
Townhouses of Murakami
A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.
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NiigataArchitectureJoetsu
Gangi Arcades of Takada
Householders gave up their own frontage to roof a continuous walkway - 16 kilometres of it, the longest in Japan.
NiigataArchitectureSado
Noh Stages of Sado
Over thirty Noh stages survive on this island - a third of all those left in Japan, one to a village.
Niigata
Kakudahama and Old Farmhouses
A village on the dunes, where the direction of every house and windbreak still follows the old rule.
NiigataArchitectureShibata
Shibata Castle
Its turret roof is T-shaped and carries three shachi finials - the only such example in Japan.
Nagaoka
Teradomari
A port of call for the Kitamae trading ships, keeping its highway townhouses and its beachfront market.
Toyama
Iwase District and Mori House
A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.
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ToyamaArchitectureTakaoka
Kanayamachi District
The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.
ToyamaArchitectureTakaoka
Yamachosuji District
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.
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ToyamaArchitectureNanto
Gokayama Gassho Villages
Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.
Toyama
Toyama Civic Hall
Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.
ToyamaArchitectureOyabe
Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe
A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.
Imizu
Uchikawa Canal
Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.
Kurobe
Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge
Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.