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Stone Buddhas of Nokogiriyama
A 31-metre Buddha and 1,553 rakan carved from the quarry face - an industry that turned into sculpture.
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Tokyo Bay Kannon
A 56-metre concrete Kannon raised for the war dead, climbable by 324 steps to shoulder height.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatsuura
Katsuura Hina Festival
Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.
ChibaArt & CraftsKamogawa
Tai no Ura
The sea where Nichiren was born, worshipped together with the temple that marks the place.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
National Museum of Western Art
Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
The collection of Japan's foremost art school, whose graduation works form a lineage of modern Japanese art.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Japan's first national art museum, holding more Important Cultural Properties of modern Japanese art than anywhere else.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
A faithful reconstruction of Conder's 1894 office block, showing late 19th-century European art.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Overlooking the palace moat, with a room of potsherds gathered from kiln sites worldwide - beauty taught through fragments.
TokyoArt & CraftsChuo
Artizon Museum
Grown from the Bridgestone founder's collection, hanging Impressionism beside modern Japanese oil painting.
TokyoArt & CraftsChuo
Mitsui Memorial Museum
Three centuries of Mitsui family collecting; one of only two Japanese-made tea bowls designated National Treasure is here.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
National Art Center, Tokyo
A museum with no collection of its own: 14,000 square metres of galleries lent out - a container, by design.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Mori Art Museum
A museum on the 53rd floor, and among the first in Japan to treat contemporary Asian art systematically.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Suntory Museum of Art
Its stated theme is beauty in daily life - lacquer, glass and textiles shown as art because they were made to be used.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Nezu Museum
Korin's irises are shown each year exactly when the real irises bloom, in a garden hidden behind Omotesando.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
An imperial prince who saw Art Deco in Paris brought French decorators home; Lalique's glass doors are still in place.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Okura Museum of Art
Japan's first private art museum, in a Chinese-styled building by Chuta Ito, holding a Heian National Treasure Buddha.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum Tokyo
The Sumitomo family's Chinese bronzes are among the finest such holdings outside China.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Musee Tomo
A private museum of postwar Japanese ceramics, its spiral glass staircase designed as part of the display.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Matsuoka Museum of Art
One businessman's collection spanning Egypt, Gandhara, Chinese ceramics and the Impressionists.
TokyoArt & CraftsMeguro
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Japan's largest public museum for photography and moving image, from 1860s albumen prints to video art.
TokyoArt & CraftsMeguro
Japan Folk Crafts Museum
Soetsu Yanagi built it to show anonymous craftsmen's work as art; he designed the building and even the display stands.