SagaMuseumsSaga
Chokokan Museum
A private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.
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SagaMuseumsArita
Old Kilns of Hizen
The failed shards from these kilns date the styles - they carry more information than the finished pots.
NagasakiMuseumsNagasaki
Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture
The shogunal magistrate's office rebuilt in timber, housing the record of Japan's one open window on the world.
NagasakiMuseumsNagasaki
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Beside the hypocentre, built around the objects themselves - including a wall moved from the ruined cathedral.
NagasakiMuseumsHirado
Matsura Historical Museum
In the lords' own residence, holding what the overseas trade brought in alongside their hawking and tea equipment.
NagasakiMuseumsIki
Harunotsuji Site
Identified with a kingdom named in Chinese records; the oldest boat landing in Japan was found here.
NagasakiMuseumsTsushima
Korean Embassies at Tsushima
The domain that received the Korean embassies, keeping painted processions and a scholar's argument for equal diplomacy.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Museum of Decorated Tumuli
Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Chibusan Tomb
Geometric patterns and figures painted on the chamber wall; two circles read as breasts gave the tomb its name.
KumamotoMuseumsYatsushiro
Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
KumamotoMuseumsMinamata
Minamata Disease Museum
On industrial poisoning and how it was recorded - including the role photography, notably Eugene Smith's, actually played.
KumamotoMuseumsKamiamakusa
Amakusa Shiro and the Rebellion
The record of a rebellion led by a sixteen-year-old; its banners and crosses carry both faith and revolt at once.
MiyazakiMuseumsMiyazaki
Miyazaki Prefectural Museum
With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.
MiyazakiMuseumsSaito
Saitobaru Burial Mounds
Three hundred and nineteen mounds across a plateau, kept as grassland so their shapes stay readable as terrain.
MiyazakiMuseumsSaito
Saitobaru Archaeological Museum
Buried underground so as not to disturb the mounds, and unusual in letting visitors handle some of the finds.
MiyazakiMuseumsAya
Aya Craft Centre
A town that paired forest protection with taking in craftspeople; woodworkers and weavers have gathered here.
MiyazakiMuseumsMiyazaki
Ikime Burial Mounds
Large keyhole tombs on a plateau above the river, laid out so the mounds can be climbed and their shape felt.
MiyazakiMuseumsSaito
Haniwa of Saitobaru
A house-shaped haniwa with smaller structures attached - a three-dimensional record of ancient building.
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
Reimeikan Museum
On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
Shoko Shuseikan
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
KagoshimaMuseumsMinamikyushu
Chiran Peace Museum
On the airfield they flew from, holding the letters teenage pilots left - the handwriting itself part of the record.
KagoshimaMuseumsKirishima
Uenohara Jomon Forest
A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.
KagoshimaMuseumsNishinoomote
Tanegashima Gun Museum
The matchlock that arrived in 1543 beside the copies local smiths made - and the record of how the screw thread defeated them.
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma
In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.