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Ryukoji (Tomioka)
It holds the graves of the young women who died working at the Tomioka Silk Mill.
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GunmaShrines & TemplesAnnaka
Kumano Jinja (Usui)
The prefectural border runs straight through the middle of the hall, and Gunma and Nagano each appoint their own priest.
GunmaNature & Scenery
GunmaArchitectureTomioka
Tomioka Silk Mill
A government-run mechanised silk mill. The reeling plant and the cocoon warehouses are National Treasures.
GunmaHot Springs
GunmaHot SpringsShibukawa
Ikaho Stone Steps
Three hundred and sixty-five stone steps. A town that grew out of a design for dividing the hot water evenly.
GunmaNature & Scenery
GunmaNature & SceneryNumata
Fukiware Falls
The water is drawn down into a split in the bedrock. The Niagara of the East.
GunmaHot Springs
GunmaHot SpringsTsumagoi
Manza Onsen
At 1,800 metres. Its hydrogen sulphide content is among the highest in Japan.
GunmaArchitectureTakasaki
Takasaki Daruma
Eight in ten daruma made in Japan come from here. The eyebrows are cranes, the moustache a tortoise.
GunmaHot SpringsNakanojo
Shima Onsen
The name says it cures forty thousand ailments. The original bathhouse at Sekizenkan is among the oldest hot-spring inn buildings in Japan.
GunmaCraft ExperiencesKiryu
Kiryu Textile
Nishijin in the west, Kiryu in the east. Saw-tooth roofed mills still stand.
GunmaCraft ExperiencesAnnaka
Usui Meganebashi
A brick arch bridge of four spans. You can walk the disused railway across it.
GunmaHistoric DistrictsShimonita
Shimonita Konnyaku
A tuber that grows even on poor ground. Production accounts for 90 percent of the national total.
GunmaHistoric DistrictsNumata
Oigami Morning Market
A spring with a legend of the deity of Akagi. A morning market is held here.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.
GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki City Art Museum
In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
GunmaMuseumsTakasaki
Gunma Prefectural Museum of History
Gunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.
GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Arts Maebashi
A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.
GunmaArchitectureMaebashi
Shiroiya Hotel
Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.