ShizuokaArchitectureNumazu
Numazu Imperial Villa Park
An imperial rest villa in timber, every room arranged to look through the pines to the bay.
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ShizuokaContemporary ArtMishima
Springs of Mishima
Fuji's groundwater runs through the town centre, with stepping stones laid so people walk in the river itself.
ShizuokaArchitectureAtami
Atami Plum Garden and Villas
A spa town of Meiji villas scattered on the slopes, each composed around its view of the sea.
Shizuoka
Shimizu Port
A port built on the tea export trade, its timber and brick warehouses still shaping the waterfront.
ShizuokaArchitectureShimada
Oi River Crossing
A river the shogunate forbade to be bridged; the offices that organised the human porters have been rebuilt.
ShizuokaArchitectureHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Castle
Walls of barely worked natural stone remain from the castle where Ieyasu spent seventeen years.
Itō
Modern Villas of Izu
Villas and inns where writers and painters stayed, scattered down the peninsula - modern Japanese leisure in built form.
Atami
Slopes of Atami
A city stacked down a slope to the sea, its stairs and alleys serving as the street plan.
ShizuokaArchitectureOmaezaki
Omaezaki Lighthouse
One of Richard Brunton's lighthouses, a white cylinder on the point; an Important Cultural Property.
Shizuoka
Tea Houses of Shizuoka
As a tea-growing province it keeps many tea houses - small spaces designed as one with their gardens.
AichiArchitectureNagoya
Nagoya Castle Honmaru Palace
A palace burned in 1945 and rebuilt in real timber from surveys and photographs, its Kano-school gold rooms recreated.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Furukawa Art Museum
Its annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Showa Art Museum
Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.
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AichiArchitectureNagoya
Arimatsu Historic District
A highway street of shibori wholesalers, their thick fireproof plaster fronts still standing.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Setogura Museum
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
AichiArchitectureTokoname
Tokoname Pottery Walk
A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
INAX Live Museum
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
AichiArchitectureInuyama
Meiji Mura
Sixty-seven Meiji buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here, including the entrance of Wright's Imperial Hotel.
AichiArchitectureInuyama
Inuyama Castle
A National Treasure keep, small but placed on a cliff above the river - the siting is the castle's whole argument.
AichiArchitectureInuyama
Joan Tea House
Built by Nobunaga's brother and one of only three tea houses designated National Treasure, lit through a screen of split bamboo.
AichiArt & CraftsToyota
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Held to be Yoshio Taniguchi's finest work: white volumes over water and lawn, the route framing view after view.
AichiArt & CraftsTakahama
Takahama Kawara Museum
Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.