IbarakiArchitectureSakai
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Sakai
A town of 20,000 commissioned several public buildings from Kengo Kuma, all clad in layered cedar.
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IbarakiArt & CraftsHitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Washi
Paper so strong it was used for ledgers and firemen's coats, once reserved for the Mito domain.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Carvings of Kasama Inari
Vegetables and fruit carved in fine relief around the hall - shrine carpentry at close range.
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IbarakiContemporary ArtMito
Plum Groves of Mito
Plum trees planted as emergency food became the garden itself - utility turned into landscape.
IbarakiArchitectureIshioka
Signboard Architecture of Ishioka
Rebuilt after a great fire, the street keeps a run of shops with Western facades pasted onto Japanese frames.
IbarakiArchitectureMito
ATM Concert Hall
Gallery, theatre and concert hall bound together by a tower - Isozaki's model of a civic arts complex.
IbarakiArchitectureTsukuba
Tsukuba Center Building
Its sunken plaza inverts Michelangelo's Campidoglio - a high point of Japanese postmodern architecture.
IbarakiArchitectureTsukuba
Tsukuba Science City
A science city built to state plan, and with it a dense archive of 1970s Japanese public architecture.
Naka
Five Hundred Rakan of Motokomezaki
Stone rakan figures ranged across a slope, no two faces alike.
Hitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Papermaking
Paper is still made in midwinter, when cold water makes the fibres bind best.
IbarakiContemporary ArtKasumigaura
Sailing Fishing Boats of Kasumigaura
White-sailed fishing boats, retired from work but kept sailing so the sight survives.
IbarakiContemporary ArtItako
Itako Waterways
Where canals were once the roads; brides still arrive by boat, at least for the festival.
IbarakiArchitectureYuki
Storehouses of Yuki
A textile trading town whose merchant storehouses still show where the money went.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Painted Doors of Kobuntei
Each room is named for a plant and painted to match; the doors were restored after wartime fire.
IbarakiArchitectureOarai
Oarai Industrial Landscape
A shoreline of harbour works and factories, where industrial structure reads as landscape.
Ryūgasaki
Ryugasaki Museum
Holds the gear of Tsukumai, a rain-prayer dance performed atop a 14-metre pole.
IbarakiMuseumsBandō
Bando Museum and Taira no Masakado
The base of Taira no Masakado, with material on the warriors of the medieval east.
Hokota
Hokota Farmland
Greenhouses ranked to the horizon - agricultural scale become an artificial landscape.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Chrysanthemum Festival
One of Japan's oldest chrysanthemum festivals, dressing figures in living trained flowers.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
One of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Utsunomiya Museum of Art
A low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Oyaji and Peace Kannon
A Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
TochigiArchitectureUtsunomiya
Oya Stone Buildings
The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.