SaitamaArt & CraftsWarabi
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum
A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.
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SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashimatsuyama
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Chichibu Meisen
Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Carvings of Chichibu Shrine
Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOgawa
Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper
Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashichichibu
Higashichichibu Washi Village
Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Ironware
Casting everything from Toshogu lanterns to cooking pots; its forest of cupola furnaces became a film subject.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKasukabe
Kasukabe Paulownia Chests
Said to have begun when craftsmen who came to build Nikko Toshogu started production in Kasukabe, a paulownia-growing area. A national traditional craft.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKōnosu
Konosu Hina Doll Festival
A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Iwatsuki Dolls
Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.
SaitamaArt & CraftsYoshimi
Yoshimi Hyakuana
Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.
Kumagaya
Kumagaya Dyeing
Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOkegawa
Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa
Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Village
Founded by growers who left Tokyo after the 1923 quake, with street widths and hedges written into its rules.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba City Museum of Art
Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.
ChibaArt & CraftsNarita
Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatori
Katori Jingu
Holds a National Treasure Tang-dynasty mirror; its black-lacquered hall was built by shogun Tsunayoshi.
ChibaArt & CraftsIchihara
Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.