HokkaidoContemporary ArtSapporo
Moerenuma Park
Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.
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AkitaContemporary ArtAkita
Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
GunmaContemporary ArtKusatsu
Yubatake of Kusatsu
Wooden channels built to cool water too hot to bathe in became the centrepiece of the town.
ChibaContemporary ArtIchikawa
Yoshizawa Garden Gallery
A donated private house turned gallery, its small shows viewed against the garden.
ChibaContemporary ArtFuttsu
Nokogiriyama Quarry
Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.
TokyoContemporary ArtChiyoda
Tokyo Station Gallery
Inside Tokyo Station, its galleries walled with the original 1914 brickwork uncovered during restoration.
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.
YamanashiContemporary ArtKoshu
Vineyards of Katsunuma
Trellised vineyards covering the slopes, where Japanese winemaking began; Meiji brick cellars still stand.
YamanashiContemporary ArtHokuto
Koumi Line and the Yatsugatake
A railway at 1,375 metres, a single drawn line across the plateau that photographers return to.
YamanashiContemporary ArtNirasaki
Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki
Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.
NaganoContemporary ArtAzumino
Wasabi Fields of Azumino
Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.
GifuContemporary ArtYoro
Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMishima
Springs of Mishima
Fuji's groundwater runs through the town centre, with stepping stones laid so people walk in the river itself.
MieContemporary ArtKumano
Hana no Iwaya
No building at all: a 45-metre rock is the deity, and twice a year a rope is strung from its summit.
KyotoContemporary ArtKyoto
Kyoto Art Center
A 1931 elementary school turned over to artists; the classrooms are the studios.
Suita
Tower of the Sun
A 70-metre figure that burst through the Expo's great roof; the Tree of Life inside was sealed for 48 years and reopened in 2018.
Osaka
Mint Cherry Blossom Walk
The Mint opens its grounds for one week a year, one-way, past 130 varieties of cherry planted in sequence.
HyogoContemporary ArtAkō
Salt Fields of Ako
Tidal salt fields once covered this coast; their divisions still show in how the land is parcelled.
NaraContemporary ArtAsuka
Ishibutai Tomb
The mound is gone and the stone chamber stands bare in a field; how its 77-tonne capstone was raised is still unknown.