KanagawaContemporary ArtOdawara
Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.
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Matsunaga Memorial Hall
The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Fujiya Hotel
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
KanagawaArt & CraftsYokosuka
Yokosuka Museum of Art
A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.
KanagawaMuseumsHayama
Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Villas of Oiso
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Zou-no-hana Terrace
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Kaigan Church
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Kawasaki Daishi
Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.
KanagawaContemporary ArtMiura
Fishing Villages of Miura
Fishing hamlets pressed against wave-cut rock platforms - terrain and livelihood in direct contact.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
A literature archive rich in book design and illustration - as much about the made book as the text.
KanagawaArchitectureOdawara
Odawara Castle
Nine kilometres of earthworks once enclosed the entire town - the scale of a medieval fortress, still walkable.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Niigata City Art Museum
A late work by Kunio Maekawa, its tiled walls kept low along the edge of the park.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
NiigataArchitectureNiigata
Former Saito Family Villa
A merchant's villa built into a dune; the garden came first, and the rooms were placed to look at it.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Niigata City History Museum
Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Matsudai Nohbutai
A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel
An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.
NiigataArchitectureMurakami
Townhouses of Murakami
A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.
NiigataArchitecture