Fukuoka
Nexus World
Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.
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FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Shikanoshima
Where the gold seal was found; a tied island whose very geography explains the ancient sea routes.
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Hakata Bentwood Ware
Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.
Fukutsu
Tsuyazaki Dolls
Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.
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Miyajidake Shrine
Twice a year the setting sun lines up exactly with the approach, laying a band of light to the sea.
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Canal City Hakata
A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.
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Hakata Machiya Folk Museum
A relocated Meiji weaver's house, with hand-weaving and top-spinning demonstrated inside it.
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Ohori Park
A castle moat turned park, modelled on West Lake in China, crossed by islands and bridges.
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Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Whether it ever had a keep is still argued; the scale of the walls shows it was among Kyushu's largest fortresses.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Former Mitsui Club, Moji
A trading company's club in half-timbered style, keeping the room where Einstein stayed exactly as it was.
Fukuoka
Hakata Spinning Tops
Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.
FukuokaArt & CraftsŌkawa
Okawa Furniture
Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.
FukuokaArchitectureUkiha
Ukiha White Walls
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, with water channels running through it.
Yame
Rural Stages of Chikugo
Stages villages built for themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the audience.
FukuokaMuseumsNōgata
Nogata Coal Museum
At the heart of the Chikuho coalfield, keeping a mock tunnel built for rescue training.
Itoshima
Studios of Itoshima
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.
Fukuoka
Hakata Weaving Workshops
Six thousand warp threads to a single sash; the density decides both the sound and the grip, so one hand oversees it all.
SagaArt & CraftsSaga
Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
SagaMuseumsArita
Kyushu Ceramic Museum
The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Arita Porcelain
Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.
Arita
Izumiyama Quarry
Four centuries of digging removed an entire mountain; the white cliff left behind records what the industry did to the land.
SagaArchitectureArita
Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Kakiemon Kiln
Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Imaemon Kiln
Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.
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