Benkei Nanamodori
You duck beneath a boulder that looks about to fall. Benkei is said to have turned back seven times.
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You duck beneath a boulder that looks about to fall. Benkei is said to have turned back seven times.
It enshrines 188 deities, and is known for an astronaut's account of seeing a pillar of light here.
It enshrines the deities of Hitachi Province together. The Ishioka festival fills the town.
One of the three great waterfalls of Japan. It falls in four stages, hence its other name.
A bridal boat moves along the waterway. Five hundred varieties of iris bloom.
Five-storey floats stage mechanical puppet plays. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Two thousand flowering peach trees. They were first planted to address a shortage of firewood.
On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.