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Ino Tadataka Museum
The man who began surveying Japan on foot at 55; his National Treasure maps are beautiful for their sheer accuracy.
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Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall
In the city where the great postwar Nihonga painter lived, built to echo the German architecture he studied among.
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Shirakaba Museum
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
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Sugimura Sojinkan Memorial Museum
The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.
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Shibayama Haniwa Museum
A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.
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Tateyama City Museum
On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.
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Tojo History Museum
Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.
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Tobinodai Museum
Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.
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Urayasu City Museum
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.
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Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest museum and holder of the most National Treasures; its buildings alone span Meiji to the present.
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Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.
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Asakura Museum of Sculpture
A sculptor's own house and studio, joining a concrete workshop to a sukiya residence around a stone-and-water court.
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Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall
The house where Taikan lived and painted, its studio arranged to look out over the garden.
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Museum of the Imperial Collections
The imperial collection, including Jakuchu's thirty bird-and-flower scrolls - the outer limit of precision in Japanese painting.
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National Film Archive of Japan
Japan's only national film institution, restoring near-lost prints to projectable condition.
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Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
Taro Okamoto's studio of nearly fifty years, left with paints and brushes as they were, its garden crowded with his sculpture.
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Toyo Bunko Museum
A million volumes of Asian studies; its centrepiece is a two-storey wall of books, the Morrison Library.
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Printing Museum
On the history of reproducing text, with a working letterpress studio visitors can use.
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Fukagawa Edo Museum
A block of 1840s Fukagawa rebuilt at full size, cycling through a day in light and sound.
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Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Designed from Miyazaki's own sketches, deliberately without a fixed route, so visitors get lost on purpose.
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Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
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Kamakura Museum of National Treasures
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
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Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
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Silk Museum
Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.