YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Matsugaoka Reclamation Site
Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.
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FukushimaArt & CraftsFukushima
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKitashiobara
Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.
FukushimaMuseumsAizuwakamatsu
Fukushima Museum
Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Sazaedo
A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.
FukushimaArchitectureAizuwakamatsu
Aizu Samurai Residence
A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Lacquerware
Begun when Gamo Ujisato brought lacquerers from Omi; known for auspicious motifs and sprinkled gold.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizuwakamatsu
Akabeko and Aizu Papier-mache
A red papier-mache ox with a nodding head, made to ward off plague - the colour itself is the charm.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizumisato
Aizu Hongo Ware
One of Tohoku's oldest pottery districts, and rare in firing both earthenware and porcelain.
FukushimaArt & CraftsIwaki
Iwaki City Art Museum
A pioneering case of a regional city collecting contemporary art, strong in American work of its own era.
FukushimaMuseumsIwaki
Kusano Shimpei Memorial Museum
A museum for the frog poet, stretched along a ridge so the view becomes part of the display.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Koriyama City Museum of Art
Unusually for Japan, built around British modern art, on a hill facing Mt Adatara.
FukushimaArt & CraftsNihonmatsu
Oyama Chusaku Museum
The personal museum of a Nihonga painter and Order of Culture laureate, born in this castle town.
FukushimaMuseumsNihonmatsu
Chieko Memorial Museum
The paper collages Chieko Takamura cut during her illness, shown in her family's sake brewery.
Nihonmatsu
Nihonmatsu Chrysanthemum Dolls
Life-size figures clothed in living chrysanthemums, which keep blooming and changing through the show.
FukushimaMuseumsSukagawa
Tsuburaya Eiji Museum
In the home town of the man behind Godzilla and Ultraman, showing miniature-making as a craft.
FukushimaContemporary ArtSukagawa
Sukagawa Taimatsu Akashi
Thirty torches ten metres tall and three tonnes each, built from bamboo and straw, then set alight.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Miharu Papier-mache
Four workshops making Miharu horses in the same hamlet since the 1700s.
FukushimaArchitectureKitakata
Kitakata Storehouses
Over 4,000 storehouses in a town of 50,000 - some built as living rooms, not storage.
FukushimaArchitectureKitakata
Kumano Shrine Nagatoko
A hall of 44 pillars and a roof, with no walls at all - Heian architecture at its most open.
FukushimaArt & CraftsShowa
Karamushi Textile Village
A village that grows, strips, spins and weaves ramie - the fibre behind Niigata's finest hemp cloth.
FukushimaMuseumsMinamiaizu
Okuaizu Museum
Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
FukushimaArchitectureHinoemata
Hinoemata Kabuki
A village of 500 has staged its own kabuki for 270 years, the audience seated on stone steps.
FukushimaArchitectureInawashiro
Tenkyokaku
An imperial prince's Renaissance-style villa above Lake Inawashiro, its original furniture intact.