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Jindai Zakura
Said to be 2,000 years old, one of the three great cherry trees of Japan. Yamato Takeru is said to have planted it.
Daibosatsu Toge
The pass road that joined Kai to Musashi. As the name suggests, it was also a road of faith.
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
Tsutsujigasaki
It is said Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his castle and his stone walls. The site of his residence is now Takeda Jinja.
Fuji Five Lakes
Fuji seen from Lake Motosu is the design on the old thousand-yen note, the Noguchi Hideyo bill. The lakes formed when eruptions dammed the valleys.
Nishizawa Valley
The five-tiered Nanatsugama falls. Potholes cut into granite by water run one after another.
Maizuru Park
Stone walls survive and the Inari turret has been restored, right in front of Kofu station.
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
Isawa Onsen
It sprang up suddenly out of a vineyard, and was called the open-air spring.
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.
Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum
The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.
Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.
Kiyoharu Art Colony
On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.