YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship
A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.
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YamanashiArchitectureFujiyoshida
Honcho Street, Fujiyoshida
A street aimed straight at Mt Fuji, its Showa shopfronts and the mountain falling into one frame.
YamanashiArchitectureKofu
Stone Walls of Kofu Castle
The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.
Fuefuki
Round Stone Deities of Kai
In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.
YamanashiContemporary ArtNirasaki
Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki
Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.
Minami-Alps
Alluvial Fan of the Midai River
Stone works built to tame a violent river; the terrain and the villages on it were shaped by that engineering.
Kofu
Joinery of Kai
Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Higashiyama Kaii Gallery
Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Kitano Museum of Art
A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsumoto
Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
NaganoArchitectureMatsumoto
Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
NaganoArchitectureMatsumoto
Matsumoto Castle
A National Treasure keep, its black boards re-lacquered every year, with a moon-viewing turret added in peacetime.
Matsumoto
Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsukawa, Nagano
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
NaganoMuseumsAzumino
Tabuchi Yukio Memorial Museum
A mountain photographer's archive, his images hung beside the minutely painted butterflies he also made.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.
Azumino
Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi
A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
NaganoArchitectureSuwa
Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple