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Shiroiya Hotel
Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.
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Okawa Museum of Art
The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.
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Kiryu Textiles
Ranked with Nishijin as Japan's other great weaving city; seven of its techniques are designated together.
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Kiryu Shinmachi Historic District
Saw-toothed weaving sheds, built for north light, stand mixed among the townhouses.
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Kiryu Textile Memorial Hall
The 1934 weavers' guild office, faced in scratch tile and now a registered cultural property.
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Ota City Museum and Library
Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.
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Hara Museum ARC
Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.
Nakanojo
Nakanojo Biennale
A biennial in a town of 15,000, staged in closed schools and empty houses and run by residents.
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Sekizenkan
Among Japan's oldest surviving hot-spring inn buildings, its 1691 wing and red arched bridge still in use.
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Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan
Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.
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Senshintei, Bruno Taut's House
The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.
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Carvings of Haruna Shrine
Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.
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Usui Third Bridge
Two million bricks in four arches, 31 metres high - Japan's largest brick bridge.
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Arafune Cold Storage and Tajima Yahei House
Silkworm eggs stored in natural rock cold air, and the ventilated farmhouse that standardised sericulture.
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Takayama-sha Sericulture School
The school that taught the ventilation-and-heat method of silkworm rearing to all Japan.
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Tomihiro Art Museum
For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.
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Iwajuku Site
Where a self-taught pedlar found the stone tools that proved Japan had a Palaeolithic age.
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Isesaki Kasuri
Threads tied and dyed before weaving; as meisen it clothed a generation of Japanese women.
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Numata History Museum
On the Sanada castle town, built atop one of Japan's most pronounced river terraces.
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Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon
A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.
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Ikaho Stone Steps
A hot-spring town planned around a stairway, with the water distributed in conduits beneath the steps.