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NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
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Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Matsumoto Castle
A National Treasure keep, its black boards re-lacquered every year, with a moon-viewing turret added in peacetime.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsukawa, Nagano
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
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Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
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Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
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Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
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Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.
NaganoArchitectureUeda
Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
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Obuse Townscape Project
Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Karuizawa New Art Museum
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
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Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial
Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.
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Former Mikasa Hotel
A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
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Tsumago-juku
The first town in Japan to organise its own preservation, under three rules its residents set: do not sell, lend, or destroy.
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Narai-juku
The longest post town on the Nakasendo: a kilometre of houses with jettied upper floors, lined with lacquer shops.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuzaka
Suzaka Classic Museum
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
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Storehouse Town of Suzaka
Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.
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Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.
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Onbashira Festival
Every seven years sixteen fir trunks are hauled from the mountain, ridden down a slope and stood at the shrine corners.
NaganoContemporary ArtAzumino
Wasabi Fields of Azumino
Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.
Iida
Puppetry of Iida
Puppet theatre took root in these farming villages; their stages survive, and the puppet heads are still repaired and used.