Handa Red Brick Building
Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.
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Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.
Floats hauled down onto the beach itself, their carvings and embroidered hangings standing on the sand.
A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.
Built inside like a miniature temple, finished by five separate trades working in sequence.
Three tonnes of river stones stacked into a cone on each two-metre vat, a two-year process that fills the warehouse.
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.
One of Japan's largest international art festivals, running through shopping streets and warehouses alongside a performing arts programme.
Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.
Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.
Narrowed to modern Nihonga and especially bijinga, with a substantial group of works by Uemura Shoen.
The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.
Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.
A post town on the salt road, beside a gorge that monks began planting with maples two centuries ago.
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.
Japan's first integrated broadcast tower, standing on the axis of a 100-metre-wide avenue cut after the war.
In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.
Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.
Nobunaga's first seat; the entire town was later moved to Nagoya - a rare case of a city relocated whole.
A canal that shipped vinegar and sake to Edo, lined with black-boarded brewery warehouses.
A red demon and a tengu do battle and scatter white powder; the masks are repaired and handed down.
Systematic in Soga Shohaku, the eccentric Edo ink painter who stayed long in this province and left his work behind.
Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.
Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.