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Urayasu City Museum
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.
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Choshi Electric Railway
A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.
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Kominato Railway Stations
Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.
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ChibaArchitectureNarita
Naritasan Approach
A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.
ChibaArchitectureSakura
Dutch Windmill of Sakura
A genuine Dutch windmill shipped in pieces and assembled here, composed with the flower fields around it.
TokyoMuseumsTaito
Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
National Museum of Western Art
Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.
TokyoMuseumsTaito
Asakura Museum of Sculpture
A sculptor's own house and studio, joining a concrete workshop to a sukiya residence around a stone-and-water court.
TokyoMuseumsTaito
Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall
The house where Taikan lived and painted, its studio arranged to look out over the garden.
TokyoArchitectureTaito
Former Iwasaki Residence
Josiah Conder set a Jacobean mansion beside a Japanese wing, with a Swiss-style billiard house linked by tunnel.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
A faithful reconstruction of Conder's 1894 office block, showing late 19th-century European art.
TokyoContemporary ArtChiyoda
Tokyo Station Gallery
Inside Tokyo Station, its galleries walled with the original 1914 brickwork uncovered during restoration.
TokyoArchitectureChuo
Kabukiza Theatre
Kengo Kuma kept the 1924 theatre face and set a 29-storey tower behind it - tradition and skyscraper in one frame.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
National Art Center, Tokyo
A museum with no collection of its own: 14,000 square metres of galleries lent out - a container, by design.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
An imperial prince who saw Art Deco in Paris brought French decorators home; Lalique's glass doors are still in place.
TokyoArchitectureMinato
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT
Conceived by Issey Miyake; Tadao Ando's roof is a single folded steel plate dropping almost to the ground.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Okura Museum of Art
Japan's first private art museum, in a Chinese-styled building by Chuta Ito, holding a Heian National Treasure Buddha.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Musee Tomo
A private museum of postwar Japanese ceramics, its spiral glass staircase designed as part of the display.
TokyoArt & CraftsSetagaya
Gotoh Museum
Holds the major surviving sections of the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls, shown just once a year.
TokyoArt & CraftsSetagaya
Setagaya Art Museum
Low pavilions in a park wood, with a deliberate policy of collecting self-taught artists.
TokyoArt & CraftsShibuya
Shoto Museum of Art
Seiichi Shirai's masterwork: almost windowless, lit through an oval void at its centre.
TokyoArchitectureBunkyo
St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo
Kenzo Tange's eight hyperbolic shells form a cross seen from above; inside, light falls only through a thin cruciform slit.