Hakusan
Shiramine District
Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.
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IshikawaArt & CraftsHakusan
Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury
Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.
IshikawaMuseumsKahoku
Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy
Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.
Kanazawa
Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa
Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Wakura Onsen
A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.
Wajima
Magaki Fences of Noto
Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Teramachi Temple District
Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll
A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Mizuhiki
Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Station Tsuzumi Gate
Timber columns shaped as Noh hand drums, met by a glass dome - a traditional form built by modern structure.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Ichijodani Asakura Museum
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
FukuiArchitectureFukui
Yokokan Garden
The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
Echizen
Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
Echizen
Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
Echizen
Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Ware
One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.
FukuiMuseumsEchizen
Fukui Ceramics Museum
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.