TokyoArt & CraftsSumida
Sumida Hokusai Museum
In the district where Hokusai spent most of his life; Kazuyo Sejima slit a mirrored aluminium block to let alleys through.
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Edo-Tokyo Museum
A raised structure like a storehouse on stilts, showing the city's memory at full scale, including a life-size Nihonbashi; after about four years of major renovation, it reopened on March 31, 2026.
TokyoMuseumsKoto
Fukagawa Edo Museum
A block of 1840s Fukagawa rebuilt at full size, cycling through a day in light and sound.
TokyoArchitectureKatsushika
Yamamotoyama Villa and Shibamata
A Taisho industrialist's house joining a shoin wing to Western rooms, its garden ranked among Japan's best by a US journal.
TokyoArchitectureKoganei
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
Buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here - Maekawa's own house, a bathhouse, a street of signboard shops.
TokyoMuseumsMitaka
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Designed from Miyazaki's own sketches, deliberately without a fixed route, so visitors get lost on purpose.
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TokyoArchitectureChuo
Nihonbashi Bridge
The zero milestone of Japan's highways, guarded by winged kirin cast in bronze.
TokyoArchitectureShinjuku
Japan National Stadium
Cedar from all 47 prefectures lines the eaves, each set facing the direction of its own province.
TokyoArchitectureBunkyo
Koishikawa Korakuen
The Mito Tokugawa garden, scattered with scenes copied from China; one bridge completes a full moon in its reflection.
KanagawaArt & CraftsKamakura
MOMAT Kamakura Annex
An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.
KanagawaMuseumsKamakura
Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
KanagawaArchitectureKamakura
Engakuji Shariden
Rafters radiating like a fan and densely packed brackets - the perfected form of Zen-style architecture from China.
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KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.
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KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.
Yokohama
BankART1929
Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Western Houses of Yamate
Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum
For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama History Museum
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum
Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.