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The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
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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.
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
SaitamaMuseumsKawajima
Toyama Memorial Museum
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.
SaitamaArchitectureKumagaya
Menuma Shodenzan
Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.
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
Carvings of Chichibu Shrine
Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.
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.
SaitamaArchitecture
SaitamaMuseumsYorii
Saitama Museum of Rivers
Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.
SaitamaArchitectureYorii
Hachigata Castle Ruins
Set between a river cliff and a ravine, its earthworks preserve the engineering of Sengoku castle-building.
SaitamaArchitectureOgano
Ogano Kabuki
Festival floats are reassembled into a stage; townspeople act, and make the sets and costumes themselves.
SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
SaitamaArchitectureHidaka
Koma Shrine and District
A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.
SaitamaArchitectureSaitama
Omiya Hikawa Approach
A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.
SaitamaArchitectureKawajima
Farmstead Woods of Kawajima
Storehouses raised on flood mounds and homes ringed by windbreak woods - living with water made visible.
SaitamaArchitectureChichibu
Chichibu 34 Kannon Temples
A hundred-kilometre pilgrimage linking Kannon halls scattered through mountains and valleys.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArchitectureWarabi
Warabi Post Town
A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.