SaitamaArchitectureOgano
Ogano Kabuki
Festival floats are reassembled into a stage; townspeople act, and make the sets and costumes themselves.
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SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
SaitamaArchitectureHidaka
Koma Shrine and District
A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.
SaitamaArt & CraftsYoshimi
Yoshimi Hyakuana
Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.
Kumagaya
Kumagaya Dyeing
Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.
SaitamaArchitectureSaitama
Omiya Hikawa Approach
A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.
SaitamaMuseumsHonjō
Honjo Waseda Museum
Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.
SaitamaArchitectureKawajima
Farmstead Woods of Kawajima
Storehouses raised on flood mounds and homes ringed by windbreak woods - living with water made visible.
SaitamaArchitectureChichibu
Chichibu 34 Kannon Temples
A hundred-kilometre pilgrimage linking Kannon halls scattered through mountains and valleys.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOkegawa
Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa
Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.
SaitamaArchitectureWarabi
Warabi Post Town
A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.
SaitamaContemporary ArtIruma
Sayama Tea Fields
Tea rows follow the contours like drawn lines - geometry produced by agricultural logic.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.
SaitamaContemporary ArtMisato, Saitama
Waterways of Misato and Yashio
The rivers that fed Edo; their dykes and sluices still divide the flat landscape.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba City Museum of Art
Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Kasori Shell Mounds
Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
ChibaArchitectureChiba
Inage Civic Gallery
The seaside villa of a wine magnate, a rare 1918 reinforced-concrete house detailed with grape motifs.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
ChibaMuseumsSakura
National Museum of Japanese History
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.