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Mashiko Sankokan Museum
Shoji Hamada built it to show the objects he learned from - other people's work, not his own, takes the lead.
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TochigiMuseumsNasushiobara
Nasunogahara Museum
The record of how irrigation canals turned an alluvial fan into farmland.
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Nasu no Yoichi Museum
On the archer of the Heike epic, showing medieval warrior dress and bows.
Sakura
Arai Kampo Memorial Museum
A Nihonga painter who copied the Ajanta cave murals in India, renewing Buddhist painting in modern Japan.
TochigiMuseumsShimotsuke
Shimotsuke Yakushiji Ruins
One of only three national ordination platforms in ancient Japan, and the only one in the east.
TochigiMuseumsMibu
Mibu Toy Museum
In a town of toy factories, collecting mass-produced Showa toys as design objects.
GunmaMuseumsTakasaki
Gunma Prefectural Museum of History
Gunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.
GunmaMuseumsKiryu
Kiryu Textile Memorial Hall
The 1934 weavers' guild office, faced in scratch tile and now a registered cultural property.
GunmaMuseumsMidori
Iwajuku Site
Where a self-taught pedlar found the stone tools that proved Japan had a Palaeolithic age.
GunmaMuseumsNumata
Numata History Museum
On the Sanada castle town, built atop one of Japan's most pronounced river terraces.
GunmaMuseumsMaebashi
Maebashi Museum of Literature
On Sakutaro Hagiwara, who established free verse in colloquial Japanese; manuscripts shown with their book design.
GunmaMuseumsTakasaki
Burial Mounds of Gunma
A land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.
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Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
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Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore
A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.
SaitamaMuseumsKawajima
Toyama Memorial Museum
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.
SaitamaMuseumsGyoda
Sakitama Burial Mounds
A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.
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Kadokawa Culture Museum
Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
SaitamaMuseumsKawaguchi
SKIP City Visual Museum
A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.
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Saitama Museum of Rivers
Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.
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Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
SaitamaMuseumsHonjō
Honjo Waseda Museum
Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Kasori Shell Mounds
Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
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Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
ChibaMuseumsSakura
National Museum of Japanese History
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.