AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Former Hirosaki City Library
A three-storey timber library with octagonal towers at both corners - a provincial master carpenter's reading of Western architecture.
Japan library1,252 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
1,252ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
1,252 entries / page 2 of 53
AomoriArchitecture
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Aomori Bank Memorial Hall
A former bank, Western outside and finished in Tsugaru lacquer and plaster within - the mixture is the point.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Ascension Church
An Anglican church whose brick spire stands out sharply among the town's timber Western buildings.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Catholic Church
A timber Gothic church holding a 19th-century altar given to it by a church in Amsterdam.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Fujita Memorial Garden
A businessman's villa using the drop of a cliff to hold two different gardens, with Mt Iwaki borrowed as the backdrop.
AomoriMuseumsHirosaki
Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Castle
The only surviving castle keep in Tohoku - and one that was jacked up and moved bodily so its stone base could be repaired.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Hachinohe Art Museum
A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.
AomoriArt & CraftsTowada
Towada Art Center
Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.
AomoriMuseums
AomoriArchitectureKuroishi
Nakamachi Komise Street
Wooden arcades built out over the street against snow, surviving as they were in the Edo period.
Kuroishi
Takahashi Family Residence
A rice merchant's house of 1763, its roof kept low throughout to shed the weight of snow.
AomoriArchitecture
AomoriArchitectureAomori
Hakkoda-maru Memorial Ship
A ferry from the eighty-year Aomori-Hakodate route, kept at its berth as a museum you can enter down to the engine room.
AomoriArchitecture
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Gakuin Missionary Residence
A timber Western house built by local carpenters for an American woman missionary; an Important Cultural Property.
Hirosaki
Osanai Family Residence
A relocated Tsugaru farmhouse, its balance of boarded floor and earthen floor set by the length of the winter.
AomoriArchitectureMorioka
Iwate Bank Red Brick Building
The only surviving Tohoku work by Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
IwateArchitectureMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Public Hall
A 1927 civic hall by the architect of Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium, still in daily use.
IwateMuseumsIchinohe
Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
IwateArchitecture
IwateArchitectureHiraizumi
Takkoku no Iwaya
A hall wedged into a cliff hollow, beside a Buddha's face carved into the rock wall.
IwateArchitectureOshu
Historic Park Esashi Fujiwara
Full-scale reconstructions of Heian palaces, used repeatedly as a period-drama film set.