FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.
Culture & history entries7,801 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
7,801ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
7,801 entries / page 143 of 326
FukuokaArt & Crafts
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Gion Yamakasa
Two kinds of float: one thirteen metres tall to be looked at, one built to be run with - and their design logic differs entirely.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKitakyushu
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.
FukuokaHistoric DistrictsKitakyushu
Mojiko Retro District
A cluster of buildings from the port's trading heyday; its timber station was the first in Japan made an Important Cultural Property.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Imperial Steel Works, Yahata
Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.
FukuokaMuseumsKitakyushu
Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum
The novelist's Tokyo house rebuilt full size, library and all, down to how the papers were piled.
FukuokaMuseumsKitakyushu
Kitakyushu Manga Museum
Built around local artists including the creator of Galaxy Express 999, with 60,000 volumes free to read.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Kokura Castle
Its top storey overhangs the one below - the 'Chinese style' keep - beside a reconstructed shoin and garden.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume City Art Museum
At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.
FukuokaArchitectureŌmuta
Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit
The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Canals of Yanagawa
Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana
A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
Yame
Yame Fukushima Butsudan
Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.
FukuokaArt & CraftsYame
Yame Lanterns
A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Koishiwara Ware
Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Takatori Ware
Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuchi
Agano Ware
A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.
FukuokaArt & CraftsMunakata
Munakata Taisha Treasure Hall
Eighty thousand objects from a sacred island, all National Treasures - five centuries of state offerings left untouched.
FukuokaMuseumsTagawa
Tagawa Coal and History Museum
A miner painted what he remembered of the pits; his 697 works became Japan's first entry in the Memory of the World register.
FukuokaArchitectureIizuka
Former Ito Denemon Residence
A coal magnate's mansion, keeping the rooms and garden he prepared for his poet wife.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
ACROS Fukuoka
Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple