ToyamaArchitectureUozu
Uozu Shinkiro
A coast where mirages appear. With the buried forest, it was long an object of awe.
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ToyamaArchitecture
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Kurobe Dam
At 186 metres, the tallest in Japan. It took seven years to build, and 171 people died.
ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Owara Kaze no Bon
For three days and nights the hill town dances in silence. The kokyu fiddle carries through the streets.
ToyamaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Higashi Chaya
Latticed teahouse buildings stand in a row. Geisha still practise here.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Kutani Ware
Overglaze in five colours. Production died out once and was revived as saiko-kutani.
IshikawaArchitecture
FukuiArchitectureEchizen
Echizen Washi
A papermaking district of 1,500 years. The shrine to the deity of paper stands in the village.
FukuiArchitectureWakasa
Kumagawa-juku
A post town on the Saba Kaido, the road that carried Wakasa fish to Kyoto.
FukuiArchitectureTsuruga
Tsuruga Red Brick
Oil warehouses. This was the port town of the Europe-Asia through trains.
YamanashiArchitecture
NaganoArchitectureMatsumoto
Matsumoto-jo
A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. The black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle.
NaganoArchitectureShiojiri
Narai-juku
A post town once called Narai of a thousand houses, and a producer of Kiso lacquerware.
NaganoArchitecture
NaganoArchitectureNagiso
Tsumago-juku
The first post town in Japan to take up townscape preservation. The power lines were hidden away.
GifuArchitectureNakatsugawa
Magome-juku
A post town along a paved slope, and the birthplace of Shimazaki Toson.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Takayama Jinya
The only Edo-period magistrate's office still standing anywhere in Japan, proof that Hida was ruled directly by the shogunate.
GifuArchitecture
GifuArchitectureMino
Mino Udatsu
Merchant houses made rich by washi. More udatsu firewalls survive here than anywhere.
ShizuokaArchitectureKakegawa
Kakegawa-jo
The first fully wooden reconstructed keep in Japan. The Ninomaru palace is an Important Cultural Property.
AichiArchitectureInuyama
Inuyama-jo
A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. It stands on a cliff above the Kiso river.
AichiArchitecture
AichiArchitectureInuyama
Meiji-mura
Meiji-era buildings moved here and preserved, including the entrance hall of the Imperial Hotel.