Toyama
Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks
The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.
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IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
D.T. Suzuki Museum
For the man who explained Zen to the West; almost nothing is displayed - the water court and silent room are the exhibit.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History
Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum
The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.
Nomi
Nomi Kutani Ware Museum
Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.
Kaga
Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.
IshikawaMuseumsKomatsu
Komatsu City Museum
At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.
IshikawaMuseumsKahoku
Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy
Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
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Ichijodani Asakura Museum
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
Echizen
Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
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Fukui Ceramics Museum
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.
FukuiMuseumsSabae
Urushi no Sato Hall
The heart of the Kawada lacquer district, where each divided stage can be watched in the workshops next door.
FukuiMuseumsSabae
Glasses Museum
Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.
FukuiMuseumsWakasa
Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Asuwayama Burial Mounds
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.
FukuiMuseumsTsuruga
Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
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Wakasa Kokubunji
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
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Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.
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Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.
YamanashiMuseumsFujikawaguchiko
Mt Fuji World Heritage Center
Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.
Kofu
Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
YamanashiMuseumsFuefuki
Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture
One site yielded 1,116 clay figures, nearly all deliberately broken - breaking them appears to have been the ritual.
YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Archaeological Museum
Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.