ShigaHistoric DistrictsOmihachiman
Hachiman Moat, Omihachiman
A canal dug to link town and lake; residents stopped it being filled in, and the whole quarter is now protected.
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ShigaArchitectureOmihachiman
Vories Buildings in Omihachiman
A missionary who came to teach English and ended up designing 1,600 buildings; this town was his base.
ShigaArchitectureOmihachiman
La Collina Omihachiman
Terunobu Fujimori planted the roof with grass and studded the walls with charcoal - an experiment in blurring plant and building.
ShigaArchitectureOmihachiman
Azuchi Castle Ruins
Nobunaga's castle, the first with a true keep; a six-metre stairway drives straight up the hill as a demonstration of power.
ShigaMuseumsOmihachiman
Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
ShigaArchitectureHigashiomi
Gokasho Merchant Houses
The home houses of merchants who traded nationwide under a creed of benefit to seller, buyer and society alike.
ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Kurokabe Square
Residents bought a black-plastered bank about to be demolished and rebuilt the town around glass - a case study nationwide.
ShigaArchitectureNagahama
Hogonji, Chikubushima
A Momoyama gate and hall clamped to the slope of an island, extended and relocated until the architecture grips the hillside.
ShigaArchitectureHigashiomi
The Three Mountain Temples of Koto
Three ancient temples along one mountain foot; the halls that escaped Nobunaga's burnings are National Treasures.
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ShigaArchitectureToyosato
Former Toyosato Elementary School
Vories's 'finest school in the East'; up the stair rail, the hare and the tortoise change position step by step.
ShigaArchitectureKusatsu
Kusatsu-juku Honjin
The official inn where the two great highways divide, surviving intact - with the register of who slept there and when.
ShigaArchitectureMaibara
Samegai-juku
A spring-fed stream runs before every house on the old highway, its underwater flowers marking the water's purity.
ShigaArchitectureTaga
Taga Taisha
Hideyoshi endowed it praying for his mother's life; its steep stone bridge and study garden are designated scenic.
ShigaArchitectureTakashima
Shirahige Shrine
A vermilion gate standing in the lake itself; water and gate alone complete the composition.
ShigaArchitectureTakashima
Kabata of Harie
Spring water piped into each kitchen and used in strict order - drinking, washing, then carp - the plan of the house set by water.
ShigaArchitectureHino
Hino Merchants and Sajiki Windows
Windows cut into garden walls so the family could watch the festival floats - a whole town designed as seating.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
Hikone
Castle Town of Hikone
Townhouses along the outer moat, their eaves and wall colours realigned in recent years to recover the Edo scale.
ShigaMuseumsKusatsu
Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.