ToyamaArchitectureOyabe
Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe
A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.
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ToyamaArchitectureImizu
Uchikawa Canal
Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.
Kurobe
Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge
Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.
ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Hillside Streets of Yatsuo
Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.
ToyamaArchitectureToyama
Fugan Canal Park
A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.
ToyamaArchitectureNanto
Inami Streets
Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.
ToyamaArchitectureImizu
Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.
Namerikawa
Mori Residence, Iwase Shipping Agent
Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
A circular glass building with no front or back; large free zones let people cross through as if it were a park.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
D.T. Suzuki Museum
For the man who explained Zen to the West; almost nothing is displayed - the water court and silent room are the exhibit.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History
Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Seisonkaku
A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Higashi Chaya District
Teahouse buildings raise their upper floors for the guest rooms; fine red lattices align the whole street.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kazuemachi Chaya District
Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Nagamachi Samurai District
Earthen walls line the samurai quarter, wrapped in straw mats each winter - protection that becomes a seasonal sight.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Oyama Shrine Gate
A three-tier gate mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western elements, topped with Dutch stained glass.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Castle
Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Hashidate Shipowners' Village
Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.
Kaga
Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Ipponsugi Street, Nanao
The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.