KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Takamatsu Castle
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
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Shikoku Mura
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
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Sanuki Folk Craft Museum
Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.
Takamatsu
Aji Granite
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Sanuki Lacquer Art
Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Temari Balls
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.
KagawaArt & CraftsMarugame
Marugame Fans
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Nakazu Banshoen
A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.
KagawaContemporary ArtMitoyo
Chichibugahama Beach
Tide pools left on the flats mirror the sky; a beach that photography discovered and turned into a destination.
KagawaArchitectureHigashikagawa
Hiketa District
A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.
KagawaArt & CraftsHigashikagawa
Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.
Shodoshima
Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima
Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.
KagawaContemporary ArtShodoshima
Nakayama Rice Terraces
Eight hundred paddies stacked up a slope, with a kabuki stage among them - farming and theatre in one view.
KagawaArchitectureShodoshima
Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima
Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.
KagawaContemporary ArtTakamatsu
Ogijima and Megijima
Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.
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Hiraga Gennai Museum
For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.
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Bota-ori Cloth
Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
Shodoshima
Olive Groves of Shodoshima
Where olives first took root in Japan; terraces cut into the slopes give the island a Mediterranean look.
KagawaContemporary ArtKanonji
Kotohiki Park
A viewpoint built on the hill so the sand coin below can be read - the vantage point completing the work.
Tonosho
Teshima and its Waste
An island known for illegal industrial dumping became a festival site - and how openly that history is handled remains at issue.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.