SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
Entries in Saitama51 entries
296 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
51ShowingSaitamaArea12Themes
INSTAGRAM / 6
Instagram from Saitama (official accounts)
No posts linked to this category have been collected yet. Showing posts from the prefecture's official accounts, rotating every minute.
51 entries / page 1 of 3
SaitamaArt & Crafts
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Urawa Art Museum
One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
SaitamaMuseumsSaitama
Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
SaitamaMuseumsSaitama
Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore
A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.
SaitamaContemporary ArtSaitama
Saitama International Art Festival
A triennial staged in empty buildings and shopping streets, run with residents on the team.
SaitamaArchitectureKawagoe
Kawagoe Kurazukuri Street
Edo's merchant architecture is almost gone in Tokyo; here a street of black-plastered shop-storehouses survives.
SaitamaArchitectureKawagoe
Toki no Kane Bell Tower
A wooden bell tower rebuilt four times since the 1600s, still ringing four times a day.
SaitamaArt & Crafts
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawagoe
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.
SaitamaArt & CraftsWarabi
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum
A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.
SaitamaMuseumsKawajima
Toyama Memorial Museum
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashimatsuyama
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.
SaitamaArchitectureKumagaya
Menuma Shodenzan
Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.
SaitamaMuseumsGyoda
Sakitama Burial Mounds
A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.
SaitamaArchitectureGyoda
Tabi Storehouses of Gyoda
A town that once made 80 percent of Japan's tabi socks; over 80 of its storehouses survive.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Chichibu Meisen
Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Carvings of Chichibu Shrine
Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.
SaitamaArt & CraftsChichibu
Chichibu Night Festival Floats
Ten-tonne floats hauled up a steep slope; their carvings and hangings are craft objects in motion.
SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Kadokawa Culture Museum
Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Seishido and Seifutei
Built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday in local brick, its interior threaded with Asian motifs.
SaitamaArchitectureFukaya
Fukaya Station
The town that supplied Tokyo Station's bricks rebuilt its own station in Tokyo Station's image.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOgawa
Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper
Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashichichibu
Higashichichibu Washi Village
Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.