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Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
One of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
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Utsunomiya Museum of Art
A low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
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Oya History Museum
Seventy years of quarrying left a cathedral-scale void underground - architecture made purely by subtraction.
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Oyaji and Peace Kannon
A Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
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Oya Stone Buildings
The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.
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Tochigi Prefectural Museum
A general museum juxtaposing the two cultural spheres of the province, Nikko and Ashikaga.
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Nikko Toshogu
Over 5,000 carvings smother these halls in gold and colour - the summit of Japanese decorative architecture.
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Rinnoji Taiyuin
Iemitsu's mausoleum answers Toshogu's brilliance with restraint - black and gold, and 315 lanterns on the slope.
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Nikko Futarasan Shrine
The heart of Nikko's mountain worship, keeping a National Treasure sword in its treasury.
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Kosugi Hoan Museum of Art
A Nikko-born painter who began in oils and crossed into Nihonga, working both to the end.
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Nikko Kanaya Hotel
Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.
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Tamozawa Imperial Villa
An Edo merchant house, a Meiji villa and a Taisho wing joined into one 106-room building.
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Former Italian Embassy Villa
Antonin Raymond clad this lakeside villa in cedar bark laid in a checkerboard - geometry from raw material.
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Former British Embassy Villa
Built by the diplomat Ernest Satow, the villa that made Nikko an international summer resort.
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Nikko Woodcarving
Begun by the craftsmen who built Toshogu, using a hooked blade that draws curves by dragging.
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Bake-jizo of Kanmangafuchi
Some seventy mossy stone Jizo along a gorge, said never to give the same count twice.
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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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Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art
Holds the potters at the centre of the mingei movement, with Hamada's relocated house in the grounds.
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Mashiko Ware
Heavy everyday ware that became the face of mingei once Shoji Hamada settled here; nearly 400 kilns remain.
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Ashikaga School
Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.
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Kurita Museum
The world's largest museum devoted solely to Imari and Nabeshima porcelain, spread over a wooded hill.
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Ashikaga Museum of Art
Built around the local painter Riichiro Kawashima, and known for the sharpness of its temporary shows.
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Tochigi Storehouse Town
A river-trade town of white-walled storehouses, nicknamed 'little Edo'.