Ono
Shichiken Morning Market, Ono
A market held on the same street since the 1580s, the goods still laid straight on the ground.
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Echizen
Fishing Hamlets of the Echizen Coast
Houses stacked in the narrow gap between cliff and sea, boat sheds lining the water's edge.
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Awara Onsen
A Meiji spa town whose large wooden inns still use Echizen lacquer and paper inside.
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Murasaki Shikibu Park
Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.
Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.
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Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.
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Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.
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Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.
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Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum
The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.
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Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.
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Kiyoharu Art Colony
On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.
Fujikawaguchiko
Itchiku Kubota Art Museum
The home of a dyer who independently revived tsujigahana dyeing, which appeared from the Muromachi to Momoyama periods; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.
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Yo Yuki Museum
Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.
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Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.
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Mt Fuji World Heritage Center
Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.
Kofu
Koshu Crystal Carving
Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.
Kofu
Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
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Fujimura Memorial Hall
An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with balcony and drum tower - local carpenters' reading of Western form.
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Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture
One site yielded 1,116 clay figures, nearly all deliberately broken - breaking them appears to have been the ritual.
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Yamanashi Archaeological Museum
Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.
YamanashiArt & CraftsNirasaki
Nirasaki Omura Art Museum
Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.
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Kanzo Yashiki
A house that supplied liquorice to the shogunate, its roof raised in three tiers for silkworm rearing.
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Saruhashi Bridge
No piers: timbers cantilever out from both banks in stages - a method invented because the gorge was too deep to stand in.