KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Honma Yosegi Museum
Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.
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Fujiya Hotel
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
KanagawaArt & CraftsManazuru
Nakagawa Kazumasa Museum
For a painter who returned to the same harbour and mountain for decades, working in oils, calligraphy and clay.
KanagawaArt & CraftsYokosuka
Yokosuka Museum of Art
A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.
KanagawaMuseumsHayama
Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
KanagawaMuseumsŌiso
Sawada Miki Memorial Museum
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Villas of Oiso
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
KanagawaArt & CraftsFujisawa
Enoshima Caves
Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Zou-no-hana Terrace
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Kaigan Church
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
KanagawaMuseumsSagamihara
Sagamihara City Museum
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
Atsugi
Atsugi Local History Museum and Buddhist Statues of Sagami
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.
KanagawaContemporary ArtMiura
Fishing Villages of Miura
Fishing hamlets pressed against wave-cut rock platforms - terrain and livelihood in direct contact.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
A literature archive rich in book design and illustration - as much about the made book as the text.
NiigataArt & CraftsNagaoka
Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Unusual among prefectural museums for its Western modern holdings, shared with its sister museum in Niigata city.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Bandaijima Art Museum
On the fifth floor of a tower by the river mouth, sharing one collection with the museum in Nagaoka.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Niigata City Art Museum
A late work by Kunio Maekawa, its tiled walls kept low along the edge of the park.
Niigata
Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum
For the poet and art historian whose blunt, unadorned calligraphy stands apart in modern Japanese writing.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
NiigataArchitectureNiigata
Former Saito Family Villa
A merchant's villa built into a dune; the garden came first, and the rooms were placed to look at it.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Niigata City History Museum
Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.
NiigataMuseumsNagaoka
Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.