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KagawaMuseums
KagawaFestivalsKotohira
Konpira Ishidan
Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main shrine, 1,368 to the inner one. The climb is itself the practice.
KagawaNature & Scenery
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Marugame-jo
A surviving keep, and the smallest in Japan. Its stone walls are said to be the highest.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Ritsurin Koen
The largest garden in Japan designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty. It borrows Mount Shiun as scenery.
KagawaNature & SceneryShodoshima
Shodoshima 88
A miniature circuit that lets you walk the Shikoku pilgrimage within the island.
KagawaNature & Scenery
KagawaNature & Scenery
KagawaHistoric DistrictsKotohira
Kompira Steps
Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main shrine, 1,368 to the inner one. Palanquin carriers still work the slope.
KagawaMuseums
KagawaArt & CraftsTonosho
Teshima Art Museum
A concrete shell in the shape of a water drop. Not a single column inside.
Shodoshima
Shodoshima
One of the three great gorge views of Japan, and the birthplace of olive growing in Japan.
KagawaHistoric DistrictsAround Takamatsu
Sanuki Udon
A self-serve culture of eating at the noodle works itself. Rainfall was low, so wheat grew.
KagawaContemporary ArtKanonji
Zenigata Sunae
A sand drawing in the shape of a Kanei-tsuho coin. Seeing it is said to keep you from want of money.
KagawaContemporary ArtTakamatsu
Setouchi Triennale
Twelve islands and two ports are the stage. Held once every three years.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Chichu Art Museum
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Benesse House Museum
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Art House Project
Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Lee Ufan Museum
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Kusama's Pumpkins, Naoshima
A polka-dotted pumpkin at the end of a pier became the island's emblem; washed away by a typhoon, it was repaired and returned.