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Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.
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EXPO'70 Pavilion
Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.
OsakaMuseumsSuita
National Museum of Ethnology
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
OsakaMuseumsSakai
Sakai City Museum
Set among the burial mounds, and on how the free city of Sakai grew rich on guns and trade.
OsakaMuseumsTakatsuki
Imashirozuka Kofun
Thought to be an emperor's tomb; the ritual platform of house, human and animal figures was excavated and rebuilt in place.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe City Museum
In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe Fashion Museum
Japan's first public museum of dress, tracing court costume through to modern haute couture.
HyogoMuseumsHimeji
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.
HyogoMuseumsNishinomiya
Hakushika Sake Museum
An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.
HyogoMuseumsTakarazuka
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Tezuka grew up in this town; his corrected and redrawn pages show how volume and handwork were held together.
HyogoMuseumsItami
Kakimori Bunko
One of Japan's great haiku archives, holding autograph works by Basho, Buson and Issa.
HyogoMuseumsAsago
Ikuno Silver Mine
A state mine where French engineers installed modern plant; the tunnels and their Western-style housing remain.
HyogoMuseumsAkashi
Akashi City Museum of Culture
In the town the standard meridian runs through, on its long role as a crossing point of the inland sea.
NaraMuseumsNara
Nara National Museum
The most systematic display of Japanese Buddhist art; its 1894 building is an Important Cultural Property, and the Shosoin treasures are shown here each autumn.
Nara
Todaiji Museum
Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.
NaraMuseumsIkaruga
Fujinoki Tomb
An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.
NaraMuseumsKashihara
Kashihara Archaeological Museum
The museum of the institute that has excavated this basin for eighty years, laying out the formation of the Japanese state in objects.
NaraMuseumsAsuka
Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.
NaraMuseumsAsuka
Kitora Tomb
Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.
NaraMuseumsTenri
Tenri University Sankokan Museum
An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.
NaraMuseumsTawaramoto
Karako-Kagi Site
A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.
WakayamaMuseumsWakayama
Wakayama Prefectural Museum
The twin of the art museum next door, built around Kumano pilgrimage material and the Kishu Tokugawa collection.
WakayamaMuseumsTaiji
Taiji Whale Museum
Records of old-style whaling; the painted fleet formations read as working diagrams for collective labour.