GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
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Kamioka Mine
A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.
GifuArchitectureMotosu
Tarumi Railway
A single track following one valley, so track, river and cherry trees line up and the journey becomes the viewing.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum
For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.
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ShizuokaArchitectureShizuoka
Kunozan Toshogu
Ieyasu was first buried here, 19 years before the present Nikko shrine buildings; this is the prototype of the gongen style, atop 1,159 steps. A National Treasure.
ShizuokaArchitectureShizuoka
Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Sixty years in the building; twenty-six of its halls are Important Cultural Properties, a rare concentration of late Edo polychromy.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsAtami
MOA Museum of Art
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.
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ShizuokaArchitectureShimoda
Namako Walls of Shimoda
Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMatsuzaki
Izu Chohachi Art Museum
For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.
ShizuokaArchitectureMatsuzaki
Namako Walls of Matsuzaki
Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsNagaizumi
Bernard Buffet Museum
Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.
ShizuokaMuseumsFujinomiya
Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka
An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.
ShizuokaArchitectureFujinomiya
Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha
A two-storey sanctuary in a form found nowhere else, beside the spring where the pilgrim route to the summit begins.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Shiseido Art House
A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.
ShizuokaArchitectureKakegawa
Kakegawa Castle
The first castle keep rebuilt in real timber after the war, beside one of only seven surviving castle palaces.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Akino Fuku Museum
For a Nihonga painter who kept returning to India; Fujimori built it of earth and paper, and visitors walk it barefoot.
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ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces
The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.
ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Egawa Residence
The house of a hereditary magistrate, its great diagonal roof frame left open above the earthen floor.
Shimada
Horai Bridge
The world's longest wooden footbridge, built to open tea fields and still re-planked and in use.
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