HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Nakahara Teijiro Memorial Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.
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HokkaidoArt & Crafts
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
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 & 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 & 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.
MiyagiArt & Crafts
MiyagiArt & CraftsTagajo
Taga Castle Ruins
The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Art Tower Mito
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKitaibaraki
Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Painted Doors of Kobuntei
Each room is named for a plant and painted to match; the doors were restored after wartime fire.
TochigiArt & CraftsNikko
Nikko Futarasan Shrine
The heart of Nikko's mountain worship, keeping a National Treasure sword in its treasury.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Ashikaga School
Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.
TochigiArt & CraftsTochigi
Tochigi Kura Museum
Three 200-year-old earthen storehouses turned into galleries, exhibiting under their original beams.
TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Kumiko Woodwork
Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Nasu Stained Glass Museum
Nineteenth-century English stained glass reinstalled in purpose-built stone chapels.
TochigiArt & CraftsOyama
Oyama Kurumaya Museum
A rice merchant's storehouse and residence converted into galleries, the buildings themselves listed.
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 & 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.