OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Otsuki Noh Theatre
An early example of a full Noh stage built indoors, bridge and painted pine and all.
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OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Mint Cherry Blossom Walk
The Mint opens its grounds for one week a year, one-way, past 130 varieties of cherry planted in sequence.
OsakaArt & CraftsHigashiosaka
Small Factories of Osaka
Thousands of tiny workshops packed together, their division of labour working as if it were one large factory.
Yao
Kawachi Cotton
Thick cotton from the flood plain, tough enough for sailcloth and working clothes.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe City Museum
In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum
A sake brewer's collection of Asian antiquities, with a separate wing of Persian carpets.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe Fashion Museum
Japan's first public museum of dress, tracing court costume through to modern haute couture.
HyogoArchitectureKobe
Kitano Foreign Residences
Houses built by foreign residents after the port opened - German, English and colonial styles mixed along one hill.
Kobe
Rokko Meets Art
Art placed across a mountain's tourist sites, so the view and the work share one field, and the climb is the route.
HyogoArchitectureKobe
Sake Breweries of Nada
Japan's greatest sake district; the wooden brewhouses that survived the earthquake are now open as museums.
HyogoArchitectureHimeji
Himeji Castle
Japan's first World Heritage castle: walls and even tile joints sealed in white plaster, the great keep flanked by three lesser ones.
HyogoArt & CraftsHimeji
Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.
HyogoMuseumsHimeji
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
Tamba Ware
One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.
Tanba-Sasayama
Sasayama Historic District
A castle town with two preservation districts, one merchant and one samurai, its shops presenting gable ends to the street.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishinomiya
Otani Memorial Art Museum
Its annual exhibition of international picture-book illustration has made it Japan's centre for that field.
HyogoMuseumsNishinomiya
Hakushika Sake Museum
An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.
HyogoArt & CraftsAshiya
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
The Gutai group began in this town; the museum holds the fullest local record of a movement that made throwing paint the work.
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