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Yodoko Guest House
One of only four Wright buildings left in Japan and the only house, its Oya stone carved in continuous geometric bands.
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HyogoMuseumsTakarazuka
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Tezuka grew up in this town; his corrected and redrawn pages show how volume and handwork were held together.
HyogoArt & CraftsItami
Itami City Museum of Art
Collects prints that criticise society, with an unusual concentration of Daumier lithographs.
HyogoMuseumsItami
Kakimori Bunko
One of Japan's great haiku archives, holding autograph works by Basho, Buson and Issa.
HyogoArchitectureToyooka
Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
HyogoArchitectureToyooka
Kinosaki Onsen
Inns were kept small and baths kept public, so the street works as the corridor of one large shared building.
HyogoArt & CraftsToyooka
Toyooka Willow Craft
A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.
HyogoArchitectureAsago
Takeda Castle Ruins
Only the stonework survives on a 353-metre summit - the outline of a castle drawn in stone along a ridge.
HyogoMuseumsAsago
Ikuno Silver Mine
A state mine where French engineers installed modern plant; the tunnels and their Western-style housing remain.
HyogoArt & CraftsMinamiawaji
Awaji Puppet Theatre
Puppets larger than Bunraku's, built for outdoor stages, with mechanisms in the head that change the face.
HyogoArt & CraftsMinamiawaji
Awaji Roof Tiles
Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.
HyogoArchitectureAwaji
Water Temple, Honpukuji
Stairs descend through the middle of a lotus pond into a hall beneath the water, its vermilion interior filled by the setting sun.
HyogoArchitectureAwaji
Awaji Yumebutai
Built where a hill was quarried away for landfill: a hundred stepped flower beds attempting to remake the destroyed terrain.
HyogoArt & CraftsMiki
Miki Hardware
Smiths gathered to rebuild a castle and stayed; the town became Japan's main source of chisels and planes.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishiwaki
Banshu Textiles
Yarn dyed before weaving, so the colour holds; most of Japan's yarn-dyed cotton comes from this valley.
HyogoArt & CraftsOno
Banshu Abacus
Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.
HyogoArchitectureTatsuno
Tatsuno Soy Sauce Town
Where light soy sauce was invented; white-walled brewhouses line the river and make the town's face.
HyogoContemporary ArtAkō
Salt Fields of Ako
Tidal salt fields once covered this coast; their divisions still show in how the land is parcelled.
HyogoMuseumsAkashi
Akashi City Museum of Culture
In the town the standard meridian runs through, on its long role as a crossing point of the inland sea.
Kobe
Port Architecture of Kobe
The old foreign settlement keeps its office blocks, most now reinforced after the earthquake but outwardly unchanged.
Toyooka
Thatched Houses of Tajima and Tamba
Farmhouses whose roofs were raised for silkworms; snow load and the worms' temperature together set the shape.
Himeji
Leather of Himeji
Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.
HyogoArchitectureSumoto
Former Spinning Mills of Sumoto
A brick spinning mill converted into a library and shops - a case of industrial reuse.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple