ShigaMuseumsYasu
Yasu Dotaku Museum
Where Japan's largest bronze bell was found - 134 cm tall - and where 24 were once buried together, for reasons still argued.
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Omi Merchant Museum
On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
ShigaMuseumsKusatsu
Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
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Ryukoku Museum
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.
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Yurinkan Museum
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
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Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
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Kawai Kanjiro's House
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
KyotoMuseumsUji
Byodoin Museum Hoshokan
Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.
OsakaMuseumsOsaka
Osaka Museum of History
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
OsakaMuseumsOsaka
Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.
OsakaMuseumsIkeda
Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum
The house of the man who invented the Japanese commuter-line business model, and founded the Takarazuka Revue.
OsakaMuseumsSuita
Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.
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EXPO'70 Pavilion
Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.
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National Museum of Ethnology
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
OsakaMuseumsSakai
Sakai City Museum
Set among the burial mounds, and on how the free city of Sakai grew rich on guns and trade.
Sakai
Sakai Rishonomori
On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.
OsakaMuseumsHigashiosaka
Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
The writer's study left as it was, beside an eleven-metre wall of his own 20,000 books, built by Tadao Ando.
OsakaMuseumsTakatsuki
Imashirozuka Kofun
Thought to be an emperor's tomb; the ritual platform of house, human and animal figures was excavated and rebuilt in place.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe City Museum
In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.
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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
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Kobe Fashion Museum
Japan's first public museum of dress, tracing court costume through to modern haute couture.