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Handa Red Brick Building
Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.
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Niimi Nankichi Memorial Museum
A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.
AichiArchitectureOkazaki
Hatcho Miso Breweries
Three tonnes of river stones stacked into a cone on each two-metre vat, a two-year process that fills the warehouse.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Noritake Garden
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Toyota Commemorative Museum
In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.
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Korankei and Asuke
A post town on the salt road, beside a gorge that monks began planting with maples two centuries ago.
AichiArt & CraftsToyokawa
Toyokawa Inari
A Buddhist temple enshrining a fox deity; a thousand donated stone foxes stand massed in one corner.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
Tokoname Ceramics Institute
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.
AichiArchitectureNagoya
Nagoya TV Tower
Japan's first integrated broadcast tower, standing on the axis of a 100-metre-wide avenue cut after the war.
AichiArchitectureKiyosu
Kiyosu Castle
Nobunaga's first seat; the entire town was later moved to Nagoya - a rare case of a city relocated whole.
AichiArchitectureHanda
Handa Canal
A canal that shipped vinegar and sake to Edo, lined with black-boarded brewery warehouses.
MieMuseumsTsu
Mie Prefectural Museum
Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.
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MieMuseumsIse
Jingu Chokokan Museum
A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.
MieMuseumsIse
Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
MieArchitectureIse
Kawasaki Merchant District, Ise
The wholesalers' quarter that supplied the pilgrim trade, its storehouses opening straight onto the river.
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MieArchitectureMatsusaka
Matsusaka Merchant House
A cotton merchant's home town house: plain to the street, lavish within - the merchant code in built form.
MieMuseumsMatsusaka
Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum
The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.
MieMuseumsIga
Iga Ninja Museum
A relocated farmhouse full of mechanisms - revolving walls and floor caches - shown as carpentry, not legend.
MieArchitectureIga
Iga Ueno Castle
Its stone wall rises thirty metres straight from the moat, among the highest in Japan.
MieMuseumsToba
Toba Sea-Folk Museum
The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.