IshikawaArchitectureWajima
Sojiji Soin
Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.
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IshikawaArchitectureSuzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
IshikawaArchitectureHakui
Keta Taisha
Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.
Hakusan
Shiramine District
Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.
IshikawaMuseumsKahoku
Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy
Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
Kanazawa
Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa
Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Wakura Onsen
A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.
Wajima
Magaki Fences of Noto
Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Teramachi Temple District
Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Station Tsuzumi Gate
Timber columns shaped as Noh hand drums, met by a glass dome - a traditional form built by modern structure.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Ichijodani Asakura Family Site
A Sengoku castle town buried whole and excavated street by street; its four gardens are Places of Special Scenic Beauty.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Ichijodani Asakura Museum
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
FukuiArchitectureFukui
Yokokan Garden
The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.
FukuiMuseumsKatsuyama
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
A silver egg half-buried in the hills; among the world's three great dinosaur museums, architecture and display conceived together.
FukuiArchitectureKatsuyama
Heisenji Hakusan Shrine
A religious city of 6,000 lodgings, now under moss - only the stone paths still run through the forest. A National Historic Site.
Echizen
Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
FukuiArchitectureEchizen
Okamoto and Otaki Shrines
Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.
FukuiArchitecture
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Sanchomachi, Obama
The teahouse quarter of a Kitamae port, its red-ochre lattices recalling the pleasure districts of Kyoto.
FukuiArchitectureTsuruga
Kehi Jingu
Its eleven-metre wooden torii is counted among Japan's three greatest, with Kasuga and Itsukushima.