TottoriMuseumsHokuei
Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
In the birthplace of Detective Conan's creator; the town is scattered with his characters, and even renamed its station.
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TottoriMuseumsKurayoshi
Kurayoshi Figure Museum
In a circular former theatre, presenting figure sculpting as a branch of sculpture proper.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
Kojindani Site
Three hundred and fifty-eight swords buried in four neat rows on one slope; nobody knows why.
ShimaneMuseumsUnnan
Kamo Iwakura Site
Thirty-nine bronze bells buried nested one inside another - the largest such find in Japan.
ShimaneMuseumsTsuwano
Mori Ogai Memorial Museum
For the army surgeon and novelist; the house he lived in until he was ten stands beside it.
ShimaneMuseumsYasugi
Wako Museum
On tatara ironmaking, which produced the steel for Japanese swords using only iron sand and charcoal.
ShimaneMuseumsOkuizumo
Okuizumo Tatara and Sword Museum
The only place still smelting tamahagane for swords, in a furnace fired continuously for three days and nights.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Fudoki no Oka
The places named in an 8th-century gazetteer are still where it says they are - text and ground still matching.
OkayamaMuseumsKurashiki
Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
OkayamaMuseumsKurashiki
Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
Kurashiki
Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
OkayamaMuseumsOkayama
Okayama Orient Museum
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
OkayamaMuseumsSetouchi
Bizen Osafune Sword Museum
In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.
OkayamaMuseumsTsuyama
Tsuyama Museum of Western Learning
This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.
OkayamaMuseumsOkayama
Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
HiroshimaMuseumsHiroshima
Rai Sanyo Museum
The study of the historian Rai Sanyo survived the bomb; his calligraphy and Chinese verse are kept here.
HiroshimaMuseumsKure
Yamato Museum
On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.
YamaguchiMuseumsYamaguchi
Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.
YamaguchiMuseumsHagi
Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
YamaguchiMuseumsHofu
Mori Museum
The Mori family mansion itself, holding Sesshu's sixteen-metre landscape scroll, shown each autumn.
YamaguchiMuseumsSuō-Ōshima
Suo Oshima and Tsuneichi Miyamoto
Home of the folklorist who walked all Japan; his hundred thousand photographs record a way of life now gone.
TokushimaMuseumsAizumi
Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum
In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.