NaganoArchitectureAgematsu
Kiso Cypress Forest
A forest saved by the Owari domain's strict felling ban; the timber for Ise Shrine's rebuilding still comes from here.
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Gifu Media Cosmos
Toyo Ito's lattice of thin timber spans the whole hall; fabric 'globes' divide air and light instead of air-conditioning.
GifuArchitectureGifu
Kawaramachi District
A wholesalers' quarter on the river, its lattice fronts once fronting the paper and lantern trades.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Kusakabe Folk Museum
A merchant house whose massive beam frame was deliberately left exposed to display the Hida carpenters' skill.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Yoshijima Family Residence
A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.
Takayama
Carpenters of Hida
In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.
GifuArchitectureHida
Setogawa Canal, Hida Furukawa
A canal of carp running beside white storehouses, the town regulating even the colour of its signs.
GifuArchitectureShirakawa
Shirakawa-go Gassho Villages
Roofs pitched near 60 degrees against the snow, rethatched by the whole village working together under an old mutual-aid system.
GifuArchitectureGujo
Gujo Hachiman
Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.
GifuArchitectureEna
Iwamura Historic District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.
GifuArchitectureGero
Gero Gassho Village
Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.
GifuArchitectureEna
Japan Taisho Village
A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.
GifuArchitectureTajimi
Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
GifuArchitectureOgaki
Suimon River, Ogaki
Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.
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Kamioka Mine
A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.
GifuArchitectureMotosu
Tarumi Railway
A single track following one valley, so track, river and cherry trees line up and the journey becomes the viewing.
ShizuokaArchitectureShizuoka
Kunozan Toshogu
Ieyasu was first buried here, 19 years before the present Nikko shrine buildings; this is the prototype of the gongen style, atop 1,159 steps. A National Treasure.
ShizuokaArchitectureShizuoka
Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Sixty years in the building; twenty-six of its halls are Important Cultural Properties, a rare concentration of late Edo polychromy.
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ShizuokaArchitectureShimoda
Namako Walls of Shimoda
Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.
ShizuokaArchitectureMatsuzaki
Namako Walls of Matsuzaki
Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.
ShizuokaArchitectureFujinomiya
Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha
A two-storey sanctuary in a form found nowhere else, beside the spring where the pilgrim route to the summit begins.