ChibaContemporary ArtFuttsu
Nokogiriyama Quarry
Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.
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ChibaContemporary ArtFuttsu
Torozaka Daishi Tunnel
A passage cut downward through sandstone by hand; chisel marks cover the walls as light falls vertically.
ChibaContemporary ArtKamogawa
Oyama Terraced Rice Fields
Three hundred and seventy-five rain-fed terraces drawing contour lines that change colour with the season.
ChibaContemporary ArtChoshi
Byobugaura Cliffs
Ten kilometres of 50-metre cliffs, their horizontal strata standing like a folding screen.
ChibaContemporary ArtKujūkuri
Kujukuri Beach
Sixty kilometres of straight sand, shaped by the sardine seine nets and the huts that served them.
ChibaContemporary ArtAbiko
Lake Tega and the Shirakaba Circle
The lakeside where Yanagi, Shiga and Mushanokoji all lived - the landscape behind the birth of mingei.
ChibaContemporary ArtChiba
Yatsuda Valley Fields
Long narrow paddies following valleys cut into the plateau - terrain dictating the shape of farming.
TokyoContemporary ArtChiyoda
Tokyo Station Gallery
Inside Tokyo Station, its galleries walled with the original 1914 brickwork uncovered during restoration.
TokyoContemporary ArtShibuya
Myth of Tomorrow
A 30-metre mural on the atomic bomb, lost in Mexico for decades and now hung in a Shibuya station passage.
TokyoContemporary ArtShinjuku
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Known for its contemporary programme, and for a young-artist series it has run for over twenty years.
TokyoContemporary ArtMinato
teamLab Permanent Installations
Projected environments that respond to visitors' movement, which established permanent digital art venues in Japan.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Yokohama Triennale
Japan's leading international contemporary exhibition, using docks and warehouses as its conditions, not just its rooms.
Yokohama
BankART1929
Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.
KanagawaContemporary ArtOdawara
Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Zou-no-hana Terrace
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
KanagawaContemporary ArtMiura
Fishing Villages of Miura
Fishing hamlets pressed against wave-cut rock platforms - terrain and livelihood in direct contact.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel
An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.
NiigataContemporary ArtOjiya
Nishikigoi Carp
Two centuries of selecting colour and pattern in terrace-fed ponds - a design carried out through living animals.
Niigata
Water and Land Niigata Art Festival
A festival themed on land reclaimed from marsh, asking through art how water and soil made this place.
NiigataContemporary ArtTsunan
River Terraces of Tsunan
Nine river terraces stacked above one another - among Japan's largest, a staircase cut by water.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Terraces of Matsunoyama
Contoured rice terraces covering a heavy-snow hillside - the ground on which the art festival places its works.
ToyamaContemporary ArtHimi
Himi Fixed-Net Fishing
Four centuries of fixed nets laid out across the bay - an invisible structure drawn on water.
ToyamaContemporary ArtTateyama
Shomyo Falls
Japan's highest waterfall, painted into the Tateyama mandalas as the boundary between hell and paradise.