ToyamaMuseumsUozu
Uozu Buried Forest Museum
Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.
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ToyamaMuseumsKurobe
Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge
Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.
ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Hillside Streets of Yatsuo
Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.
Toyama
Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks
The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.
ToyamaContemporary ArtTateyama
Shomyo Falls
Japan's highest waterfall, painted into the Tateyama mandalas as the boundary between hell and paradise.
ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Fugan Canal Park
A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.
ToyamaContemporary ArtTonami
Tulip Fields of Tonami
Bulb fields divided by colour for production become, unintentionally, a vast composition in flat colour.
ToyamaArchitectureNanto
Inami Streets
Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.
ToyamaArchitectureImizu
Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.
Takaoka
Takaoka Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.
ToyamaArt & CraftsHimi
Lion Dances of Himi
Over a hundred lion dances survive in one city, each hamlet's carved head differing enough to trace its lineage.
Namerikawa
Mori Residence, Iwase Shipping Agent
Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.
Nanto
Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu
Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.
Toyama
Modern Painters of Toyama
Painters born in this province, among them the bird-and-flower master Ishizaki Koyo, are held across its museums.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Ninsei's pheasant incense burner is a National Treasure; the crafts the Kaga domain nurtured are all gathered here.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
National Crafts Museum
The national crafts collection, moved from Tokyo into two relocated Meiji army buildings.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
D.T. Suzuki Museum
For the man who explained Zen to the West; almost nothing is displayed - the water court and silent room are the exhibit.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History
Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Nakamura Memorial Museum
A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Noh Museum
Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum
The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Seisonkaku
A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kazuemachi Chaya District
Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.