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Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Three gardens up a hillside with working farmland kept between them, and a tea house at the top open to the whole basin.
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Kyoto Imperial Palace
Rebuilt in the 1850s but researched back to Heian precedent, down to the subjects of its wall paintings.
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Taian Tea House
The only tea room reliably by Sen no Rikyu: two mats, and the first entrance so low that everyone must stoop.
KyotoArt & CraftsŌyamazaki
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
KyotoMuseumsUji
Byodoin Museum Hoshokan
Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.
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KyotoArt & CraftsKizugawa
Iwafunedera and the Stone Buddhas of Tono
Kamakura-period Buddhas carved into roadside rock; the walk from temple to temple is itself the gallery.
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Sumiya Museum
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Gion Festival Floats
Called a moving museum: Persian and Flemish textiles imported in the 1500s still hang on the floats every July.
KyotoArchitectureKyoto
Garden of Fine Arts Kyoto
Masterpieces fired onto ceramic panels and set outdoors; Ando's ramps make you look down on some and up at others.
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Kyoto Station Building
A vast glass structure dropped into a historic city, with a 171-metre atrium and a stair climbing to the roof - fiercely contested when built.
KyotoContemporary ArtKyoto
Kyoto Art Center
A 1931 elementary school turned over to artists; the classrooms are the studios.
KyotoArt & CraftsYosano
Tango Chirimen Silk Crepe
Silk hard-twisted then shrunk in hot water to raise its crinkled surface; most of Japan's undyed kimono cloth is woven here.
KyotoArchitectureNantan
Miyama Thatched Village
Most of the village is still thatched, and the rethatching is still done by the villagers together.
KyotoArchitectureMaizuru
Maizuru Red Brick Park
Twelve naval warehouses surviving together - a military complex preserved as an ensemble of brickwork.
KyotoContemporary ArtUji
Tea Fields of Uji
Fields shaded with reed screens and straw before harvest to sweeten the leaf - the covers themselves a seasonal sight.
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Kyoto Dolls and Joinery
Head, hair, limbs and costume are each made by a different specialist - the division of labour on which nearly all Kyoto craft runs.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyoto Buddhist Implements
With every sect's head temple in one city, demand never stopped; more than ten trades touch a single altar.
KyotoArchitectureKyoto
Dry Gardens of Kyoto
The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.