ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Hillside Streets of Yatsuo
Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.
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Fugan Canal Park
A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.
ToyamaArchitectureNanto
Inami Streets
Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.
ToyamaArchitectureImizu
Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.
Namerikawa
Mori Residence, Iwase Shipping Agent
Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Seisonkaku
A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kazuemachi Chaya District
Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Oyama Shrine Gate
A three-tier gate mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western elements, topped with Dutch stained glass.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Castle
Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Hashidate Shipowners' Village
Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Ipponsugi Street, Nanao
The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.
IshikawaArchitectureWajima
Sojiji Soin
Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.
IshikawaArchitectureHakui
Keta Taisha
Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.
Hakusan
Shiramine District
Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
Kanazawa
Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa
Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Wakura Onsen
A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.
Wajima
Magaki Fences of Noto
Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Teramachi Temple District
Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Station Tsuzumi Gate
Timber columns shaped as Noh hand drums, met by a glass dome - a traditional form built by modern structure.
FukuiArchitectureFukui
Yokokan Garden
The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.