TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Craft Studios of Nasu
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, built up by artists who moved here.
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TochigiArt & Crafts
TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Pottery Fair
Five hundred stalls twice a year, the model on which Japan's other pottery fairs were built.
Sano
Bell Casting of Sano
Casters here supplied temple bells across Japan; the inscriptions let their lineage be traced.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.
GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki City Art Museum
In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Arts Maebashi
A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.
GunmaArt & CraftsKiryu
Okawa Museum of Art
The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.
GunmaArt & CraftsKiryu
Kiryu Textiles
Ranked with Nishijin as Japan's other great weaving city; seven of its techniques are designated together.
GunmaArt & CraftsŌta
Ota City Museum and Library
Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.
GunmaArt & CraftsShibukawa
Hara Museum ARC
Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan
Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Byakue Daikannon
The tallest Kannon in the world when built in 1936, of reinforced concrete, climbable to nine storeys.
GunmaArt & CraftsMidori
Tomihiro Art Museum
For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.
GunmaArt & CraftsIsesaki
Isesaki Kasuri
Threads tied and dyed before weaving; as meisen it clothed a generation of Japanese women.
GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Morinji and the Bunbuku Kettle
The temple of the tanuki-turned-kettle folktale, its approach lined with badger statues.
GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Mt Akagi and Modern Painters
Its long gentle slopes appear again and again behind the paintings of Gunma's modern artists.
Minakami
Roadside Deities of Minakami
Paired male-and-female stone deities stand at roadsides; the province is dense with them.
Shibukawa
Stone Buddhas of Shibukawa
Buddhas cut into the rock at the foot of Mt Haruna, tracing a line of provincial stonemasons.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Urawa Art Museum
One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
SaitamaArt & Crafts
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawagoe
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.