IbarakiArchitectureKasama
Shumpu Banriso
Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.
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IbarakiArchitecture
ChibaArchitectureSakae
Boso no Mura
A full-scale reconstructed Edo town where craftsmen actually work in the buildings.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Kawasaki Daishi
Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
GifuArchitectureTajimi
Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
AichiArchitectureTokoname
Tokoname Pottery Walk
A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.
HyogoArchitectureToyooka
Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Red-Tiled Streets
Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.
ShimaneArchitectureMatsue
Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.
ShimaneArchitecture
ShimaneArchitectureShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Red Tiles of Izumo
Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.
OkayamaArchitectureTakahashi
Fukiya Village
A copper and red-ochre town where every house is painted in the pigment it made, under matching red tiles.
HiroshimaArchitectureKure
Irifuneyama Memorial Museum
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.
YamaguchiArchitectureYanai
Yanai White-Walled District
A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Kushida Shrine
Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
SagaArchitectureArita
Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
Arita
Tonbai Walls of Arita
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
SagaArchitectureImari
Imari Port District
Arita porcelain shipped from this port, which is why the world came to call it Imari instead.
Arita
Climbing Kiln Sites of Arita
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillsides; the slope and the number of chambers decided the firing.
SagaArchitectureArita
Arita Porcelain Park
A replica of the Zwinger, built by the Saxon elector who bought Arita porcelain by the shipload - the export destination made visible.
Hasami
Nakaoyama Kiln Site
The remains of a 160-metre climbing kiln of 33 chambers - among the largest ever built anywhere.