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Takato Castle Site
Fifteen hundred trees of a cherry unique to this place, flowering along the line of the old earthworks.
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Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.
Nagano
Togakushi Bamboo Craft
Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Shinshu Shinmachi Museum of Art
A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.
NaganoArchitectureSuwa
Onbashira Festival
Every seven years sixteen fir trunks are hauled from the mountain, ridden down a slope and stood at the shrine corners.
NaganoArt & Crafts
NaganoContemporary ArtAzumino
Wasabi Fields of Azumino
Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Roadside Deities of Azumino
Over five hundred paired stone deities stand along these roads - holding hands, pouring wine, no two alike.
NaganoContemporary ArtIida
Ina Valley Terraces
Villages and fields ranked on river terraces - the steps of the terrain become the steps of land use.
Iida
Puppetry of Iida
Puppet theatre took root in these farming villages; their stages survive, and the puppet heads are still repaired and used.
NaganoArchitectureAgematsu
Kiso Cypress Forest
A forest saved by the Owari domain's strict felling ban; the timber for Ise Shrine's rebuilding still comes from here.
Suwa
Glass and Precision Industry of Suwa
A precision-machinery town whose skills flowed sideways into glass - industry and craft at close range.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.
GifuMuseumsGifu
Gifu City Museum of History
On the castle town Nobunaga built, with his free-market street reconstructed at full size to be walked through.
GifuArchitectureGifu
Gifu Media Cosmos
Toyo Ito's lattice of thin timber spans the whole hall; fabric 'globes' divide air and light instead of air-conditioning.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Lanterns
Mino paper stretched so thin the bamboo ribs show through when the lantern is lit.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Paper Umbrellas
Most of Japan's paper umbrellas came from here; looked up into, the threads binding the ribs form a geometric pattern.
GifuArchitectureGifu
Kawaramachi District
A wholesalers' quarter on the river, its lattice fronts once fronting the paper and lantern trades.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Cormorant Fishing of the Nagara
Hereditary fishermen of the Imperial Household keep the dress and boats of 1,300 years ago, working by firelight.
GifuArt & CraftsTajimi
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
GifuMuseumsTajimi
Tajimi Mosaic Tile Museum
Terunobu Fujimori shaped the building like the clay pit itself, its walls studded with tiles so the architecture is the specimen.
GifuArt & Crafts
GifuMuseumsToki
Toki Mino Ceramics History Museum
Sherds from the kilns that fired Shino and Oribe - technique read from the failures rather than the finished pots.
GifuMuseumsMizunami
Mizunami Ceramics Museum
From Momoyama tea ware to modern export porcelain, including the designs made purely for foreign markets.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple