Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
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Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.
Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.
Paid for by a single stockbroker; won in competition by Okada and detailed by Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
Given by the Sumitomo family: a stone temple front and a domed stairwell, still a working library.
A club for the cotton trade where every room is in a different style, with interiors as fine as any in Japan.
A white building with rounded corners - one of the first arrivals of stripped modernism in Japanese commercial architecture.
The first tower set an Eiffel on top of an Arc de Triomphe; the present one is by the engineer of Tokyo Tower.
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.
The house of the man who invented the Japanese commuter-line business model, and founded the Takarazuka Revue.
The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.
A 70-metre figure that burst through the Expo's great roof; the Tree of Life inside was sealed for 48 years and reopened in 2018.
Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
Among the largest tombs on earth by mound length - an earthwork whose whole shape can only be seen from the air.
Set among the burial mounds, and on how the free city of Sakai grew rich on guns and trade.
On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.
Sakai mass-produced the first Japanese guns; that forging skill turned into knives, and most professional chefs' blades still come from here.
Dye poured through stencilled paste so it soaks clean through - the cloth comes out identical on both faces.