KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.
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Ritsurin Garden
It takes the mountain behind it into the garden; its pines have been shaped by hand, tree by tree, for three centuries.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Takamatsu Castle
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Shikoku Mura
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Folk Craft Museum
Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.
Takamatsu
Aji Granite
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Sanuki Lacquer Art
Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Temari Balls
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.
KagawaArt & Crafts
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Marugame Castle
The smallest of Japan's surviving keeps on its tallest stone walls - four tiers curving up like an opened fan.
Marugame
Marugame Fans
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Nakazu Banshoen
A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.
KagawaArchitectureKotohira
Kanamaruza Theatre
Japan's oldest surviving playhouse; its revolve and traps are still turned by men working under the stage.
KagawaContemporary ArtKanonji
Zenigata Sand Coin
A giant coin dug into the beach and re-cut by the whole town twice a year - which is why it has held its shape for four centuries.
KagawaContemporary ArtMitoyo
Chichibugahama Beach
Tide pools left on the flats mirror the sky; a beach that photography discovered and turned into a destination.
KagawaArchitectureHigashikagawa
Hiketa District
A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.
KagawaArt & CraftsHigashikagawa
Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.
Shodoshima
Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima
Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.
KagawaContemporary ArtShodoshima
Nakayama Rice Terraces
Eight hundred paddies stacked up a slope, with a kabuki stage among them - farming and theatre in one view.
KagawaArchitectureShodoshima
Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima
Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.
KagawaContemporary ArtTakamatsu
Ogijima and Megijima
Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.
KagawaContemporary Art
KagawaMuseumsSanuki
Hiraga Gennai Museum
For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.
Takamatsu
Bota-ori Cloth
Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.
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