Sado
Aikawa Craft Museum
Keeps Sado's pottery and its rag weaving - both born from using up what the island had.
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NiigataArt & CraftsYahiko
Yahiko Shrine Treasure Hall
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Echigo, including a two-metre blade forged not to fight but to be given.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Shirone Giant Kite Battle
Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.
Niigata
Niigata Lacquerware
Specialising in trick finishes - lacquer made to look exactly like bamboo, or stone, over a wooden body.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Nuttari Terrace
A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.
Niigata
Water and Land Niigata Art Festival
A festival themed on land reclaimed from marsh, asking through art how water and soil made this place.
NiigataMuseumsNagaoka
Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
NiigataMuseumsItoigawa
Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
Niigata
Zen Temples and Ink Painting
Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.
Niigata
Kakudahama and Old Farmhouses
A village on the dunes, where the direction of every house and windbreak still follows the old rule.
NiigataArchitectureShibata
Shibata Castle
Its turret roof is T-shaped and carries three shachi finials - the only such example in Japan.
Gosen
Gosen Silk
A silk district working both weave and knit, its foundation the technique of twisting the yarn.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Tokamachi Kimono
From ramie to silk kasuri and yuzen; the snow's humidity is what makes the dyeing work.
NiigataContemporary ArtTsunan
River Terraces of Tsunan
Nine river terraces stacked above one another - among Japan's largest, a staircase cut by water.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Terraces of Matsunoyama
Contoured rice terraces covering a heavy-snow hillside - the ground on which the art festival places its works.
NiigataArt & CraftsKashiwazaki
Mokujiki Buddhas
Rough-hewn smiling Buddhas by the wandering monk Mokujiki, rediscovered by Soetsu Yanagi.
Nagaoka
Teradomari
A port of call for the Kitamae trading ships, keeping its highway townhouses and its beachfront market.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga
A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Glass Studio
Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Sato Memorial Museum of Art
Inside the castle park, built around a businessman's gift of tea utensils and Asian antiquities.
ToyamaMuseumsToyama
Toyama Folkcraft Village
Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.
Toyama
Iwase District and Mori House
A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.