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Noritake Garden
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
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Toyota Commemorative Museum
In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.
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Iwase Bunko Library
Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Hosa Library
The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.
AichiMuseumsToyota
Sanage Kiln Sites
Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
Tokoname Ceramics Institute
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.
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Shippo Art Village
In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.
MieMuseumsTsu
Mie Prefectural Museum
Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.
MieMuseumsIse
Jingu Chokokan Museum
A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.
MieMuseumsIse
Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
Suzuka
Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall
On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.
Yokkaichi
Banko no Sato Hall
The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.
MieMuseumsMatsusaka
Motoori Norinaga Memorial Museum
The scholar who spent 35 years deciphering the Kojiki; his manuscripts survive, and the study he hung with bells.
MieMuseumsMatsusaka
Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum
The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.
MieMuseumsIga
Basho Memorial Museum
In Basho's birthplace, showing his poem cards and travel drafts as calligraphy.
MieMuseumsToba
Toba Sea-Folk Museum
The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.
MieMuseumsToba
Mikimoto Pearl Island
Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.
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Saiku Historical Museum
The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
Toba
Tools of the Ama Divers
The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.
ShigaMuseumsOtsu
Otsu City Museum of History
Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.
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Mitsuhashi Setsuko Museum
A painter who lost her dominant arm to illness and went on painting left-handed until her death at 35.
ShigaMuseumsHikone
Hikone Castle Museum
The lord's palace rebuilt in timber to hold the Ii family's red-lacquered armour and its Noh masks and robes.
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Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
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Nagahama Hikiyama Museum
Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.