FukushimaContemporary ArtIwaki
Spa Resort Hawaiians Hula
A closing coal town turned its mine water into a resort; the first dancers were the miners' daughters.
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FukushimaContemporary Art
IbarakiContemporary ArtToride
Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride
A campus of Tokyo's art university, whose community art project has run since 1999.
IbarakiContemporary ArtMito
Plum Groves of Mito
Plum trees planted as emergency food became the garden itself - utility turned into landscape.
IbarakiContemporary ArtKasumigaura
Sailing Fishing Boats of Kasumigaura
White-sailed fishing boats, retired from work but kept sailing so the sight survives.
IbarakiContemporary ArtItako
Itako Waterways
Where canals were once the roads; brides still arrive by boat, at least for the festival.
Hokota
Hokota Farmland
Greenhouses ranked to the horizon - agricultural scale become an artificial landscape.
TochigiContemporary ArtAshikaga
Wisteria of Ashikaga
A wisteria trained over 1,000 square metres - a living structure made possible by transplanting the old tree.
TochigiContemporary ArtUtsunomiya
Oya Underground Space and Art
The quarry void is now used for exhibitions and performance, the space itself part of the work.
TochigiContemporary ArtNikko
Nikko Cedar Avenue
Twelve thousand cedars planted over two decades, roofing 37 km of highway - the world's longest tree avenue.
TochigiContemporary ArtUtsunomiya
Utsunomiya Civic Gallery
A civic gallery that keeps the base of the local art scene in constant exhibition.
Nakanojo
Nakanojo Biennale
A biennial in a town of 15,000, staged in closed schools and empty houses and run by residents.
GunmaContemporary ArtKusatsu
Yubatake of Kusatsu
Wooden channels built to cool water too hot to bathe in became the centrepiece of the town.
GunmaContemporary ArtTatebayashi
Tsutsujigaoka Park
Azaleas gathered and planted by a feudal lord four centuries ago, grown into a landscape.
Shimonita
Rock Forms of Shimonita
Volcanic rock eroded into pinnacles, painted since the Edo period as a real-world landscape scroll.
GunmaContemporary ArtTomioka
Silk Landscape of Kanra and Tomioka
Mulberry fields and heightened roofs - an industry that reshaped both land and houses.
GunmaContemporary ArtNumata
River Terraces of Numata
River terraces stacked like steps, with the town on one of them - geology legible as a drawing.
GunmaContemporary ArtMaebashi
Jomo Karuta Cards
A postwar card game every local memorises; its 44 illustrated cards are effectively Gunma's tourist map.
SaitamaContemporary ArtSaitama
Saitama International Art Festival
A triennial staged in empty buildings and shopping streets, run with residents on the team.
SaitamaContemporary ArtKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Art Gallery Atlia
Exhibition and studio under one roof, giving the old foundry town a contemporary art base.
SaitamaContemporary ArtSōka
Soka Matsubara
A kilometre and a half of pines along the old Nikko highway, walked by Basho and now a Place of Scenic Beauty.
SaitamaContemporary ArtIruma
Sayama Tea Fields
Tea rows follow the contours like drawn lines - geometry produced by agricultural logic.
SaitamaContemporary ArtMisato, Saitama
Waterways of Misato and Yashio
The rivers that fed Edo; their dykes and sluices still divide the flat landscape.
ChibaContemporary ArtIchihara
Ichihara Art Mix
Staged in closed schools along a single-track railway, so the journey itself becomes part of the viewing.
ChibaContemporary ArtIchikawa
Yoshizawa Garden Gallery
A donated private house turned gallery, its small shows viewed against the garden.