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Tomioka Silk Mill
A government-run mechanised silk mill. The reeling plant and the cocoon warehouses are National Treasures.
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Takasaki Daruma
Eight in ten daruma made in Japan come from here. The eyebrows are cranes, the moustache a tortoise.
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Shiroiya Hotel
Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.
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Kiryu Shinmachi Historic District
Saw-toothed weaving sheds, built for north light, stand mixed among the townhouses.
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Sekizenkan
Among Japan's oldest surviving hot-spring inn buildings, its 1691 wing and red arched bridge still in use.
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Senshintei, Bruno Taut's House
The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.
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Carvings of Haruna Shrine
Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.
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Nukisaki Shrine
Worshippers descend to reach the sanctuary - a rare inversion - past halls lacquered and painted for Iemitsu.
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Myogi Shrine
Backed by the jagged Myogi peaks, its black-lacquered halls carry a density of gilt carving close to Nikko's.
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Usui Third Bridge
Two million bricks in four arches, 31 metres high - Japan's largest brick bridge.
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Arafune Cold Storage and Tajima Yahei House
Silkworm eggs stored in natural rock cold air, and the ventilated farmhouse that standardised sericulture.
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Takayama-sha Sericulture School
The school that taught the ventilation-and-heat method of silkworm rearing to all Japan.
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Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon
A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.
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Ikaho Stone Steps
A hot-spring town planned around a stairway, with the water distributed in conduits beneath the steps.
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Former Jomo Muslin Office
A wool company's pseudo-Western office of 1910, a relic of Gunma's textile industry.
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Obata Historic Street
A castle town where an irrigation channel runs in front of every house, water and street plan designed as one.
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Usui Pass Railway Structures
The abandoned rack railway over the pass, its tunnels and bridges all in matching brick.
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Saw-Tooth Roof Factories
Roofs shaped for even north light in weaving sheds, now reused as cafes and studios.
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Takasaki Arts Theatre
A large theatre by the station, designed around acoustics as home to the Gunma Symphony.
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Stone Walls of Kanayama Castle
Few medieval castles in eastern Japan used this much stone; its walls and ponds are restored from excavation.