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Dry Gardens of Kyoto
The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.
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Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
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Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
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National Museum of Art, Osaka
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
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Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
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Fujita Museum
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
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Yuki Museum of Art
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
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Osaka Museum of History
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
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Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.
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Osaka Castle
Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.
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Osaka City Central Public Hall
Paid for by a single stockbroker; won in competition by Okada and detailed by Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
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Nakanoshima Library
Given by the Sumitomo family: a stone temple front and a domed stairwell, still a working library.
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Osaka Club Mengyo Kaikan
A club for the cotton trade where every room is in a different style, with interiors as fine as any in Japan.
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Osaka Gas Building
A white building with rounded corners - one of the first arrivals of stripped modernism in Japanese commercial architecture.
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Tsutenkaku
The first tower set an Eiffel on top of an Arc de Triomphe; the present one is by the engineer of Tokyo Tower.
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Itsuo Art Museum
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.
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Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum
The house of the man who invented the Japanese commuter-line business model, and founded the Takarazuka Revue.
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Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.
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Tower of the Sun
A 70-metre figure that burst through the Expo's great roof; the Tree of Life inside was sealed for 48 years and reopened in 2018.
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EXPO'70 Pavilion
Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.
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National Museum of Ethnology
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
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Daisen Kofun
Among the largest tombs on earth by mound length - an earthwork whose whole shape can only be seen from the air.
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Sakai City Museum
Set among the burial mounds, and on how the free city of Sakai grew rich on guns and trade.
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