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Art Tower Mito
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
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Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
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Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Ware
A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.
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Shumpu Banriso
Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Inari Museum
A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.
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Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History
A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.
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Tokugawa Museum
The Mito Tokugawa collection, including the sword Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, shown still scarred by the 1923 fire.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKashima
Kashima Jingu Treasure Hall
A 2.7-metre straight sword of the Nara period - among the largest surviving Japanese blades.
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Koga Museum of History
An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKoga
Museum of Tenkoku Seal Carving
Japan's only museum of seal carving - an art that sits between calligraphy and sculpture.
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Koga Kubo Park and Takami Senseki Memorial
The samurai house where the Dutch-studies scholar Takami Senseki spent his last years.
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Itaya Hazan Memorial Museum
The birthplace of the first potter to receive Japan's Order of Culture, known for his veiled hoko glaze.
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Shimodate Museum of Art
Centred on Shigeru Morita, who painted Kurokawa Noh again and again.
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Yuki Tsumugi
Silk floss drawn into thread by hand without twisting, then woven on a back-strap loom; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Tsumugi no Yakata
In a merchant's storehouse, showing every stage from silk floss to finished cloth.
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Makabe Historic District
Some 100 registered historic buildings in one small town, layered from the Edo period to the 20th century.
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Makabe Stone Lanterns
Lanterns cut from Tsukuba granite by a town of stonemasons working since the Edo period.
IbarakiArchitectureHitachi
Hitachi Station
Kazuyo Sejima's all-glass concourse frames the Pacific like a picture; an internationally awarded station.
IbarakiMuseumsHitachi
Hitachi City Museum
The record of a mining and electrical town, including the 156-metre chimney once the world's tallest.
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Tsuchiura City Museum
Swords of the Tsuchiya lords, shown beside the fishing gear of Lake Kasumigaura.
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Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride
A campus of Tokyo's art university, whose community art project has run since 1999.