Ao no Domon
A tunnel the monk Zenkai spent thirty years cutting with a chisel. The subject of Kikuchi Kan's Beyond Love and Hate.
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A tunnel the monk Zenkai spent thirty years cutting with a chisel. The subject of Kikuchi Kan's Beyond Love and Hate.
A lane cut through a tuff hill, with temples and samurai houses on both banks - a town carved out of the ground.
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
Residents chose to keep the fields and refuse development, regulating building heights and signs among themselves.
A shuttered shopping street brought back to its 1950s state, down to the signage and the fittings inside the shops.
The low-ranking samurai house where Fukuzawa grew up, including the storehouse loft he converted himself to study in.
A private academy that stripped away rank, age and prior schooling at the door; five thousand students came from all Japan.
A samurai quarter of continuous earthen walls, closed at one end by a surviving turret gate.
A town in a tuff-walled basin, where tunnels bored through the cliffs serve as ordinary streets.
A castle town built on brewing; its black-boarded warehouses still line the lanes and still ferment.
A sea-water castle where two lords' stonework meets in one wall - and the difference in how they laid it is visible.
A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.
The town of a Christian daimyo, with a church and hospital - among the first Japanese cities to take in European culture.
Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.