HokkaidoArt & CraftsAbashiri
Abashiri City Museum of Art
One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.
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HokkaidoArt & CraftsHakodate
Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art
Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru City Museum of Art
Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Kitaichi Glass Hall 3
A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsBibai
Arte Piazza Bibai
A sculptor turned a closed mine town's school and playground into a seven-hectare field of marble you may touch and sit on.
Iwanai
Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art
The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.
Iwanai
Arai Memorial Museum of Art
Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.
Kutchan
Ogawara Shu Memorial Art Museum
A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTomakomai
Tomakomai Art Museum
Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.
Muroran
Muroran Citizens' Art Museum
A museum built from citizens' donations in a steel town, and collecting the paintings its factories provoked.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
Fukagawa
Fukagawa Art Hall Toshukan
A small museum inside a commercial building by the station, built on two local painters and changing its shows often.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTakikawa
Takikawa Art and Natural History Museum
Art and natural history under one roof - Sorachi printmakers beside the fossil sea cow dug up in the city.
Toyako
Toyako Museum of Art
A small municipal gallery by the lake, showing landscape and daily life in a district that has lived through repeated eruptions.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Museum of Art
Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Kogin Institute
Kogin stitching filled scarce hemp cloth with cotton thread; the workshop still does it by hand, inside Maekawa's very first building.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Hachinohe Art Museum
A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Kushihiki Hachimangu Treasure Hall
Two 13th-century suits of armour, both National Treasures; the red-laced one is among the most ornamented to survive anywhere.
AomoriArt & CraftsTowada
Towada Art Center
Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.
AomoriArt & CraftsShichinohe
Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.