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Kyoto Imperial Palace
Rebuilt in the 1850s but researched back to Heian precedent, down to the subjects of its wall paintings.
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Taian Tea House
The only tea room reliably by Sen no Rikyu: two mats, and the first entrance so low that everyone must stoop.
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Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
KyotoArchitectureUji
Byodoin Phoenix Hall
Designed with its own reflection in mind; Jocho's joined-block carving inside settled the technique of Japanese sculpture.
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Byodoin Museum Hoshokan
Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.
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Ujigami Shrine
The oldest surviving shrine sanctuary in Japan, its three inner halls sheltered under one Heian-period roof.
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KyotoArt & CraftsKizugawa
Iwafunedera and the Stone Buddhas of Tono
Kamakura-period Buddhas carved into roadside rock; the walk from temple to temple is itself the gallery.
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KyotoArchitectureYawata
Iwashimizu Hachimangu
The finished form of the hachiman style, two halls joined front to back, with a gilded gutter Nobunaga gave spanning the valley between.
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Sumiya Museum
The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.
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Garden of Fine Arts Kyoto
Masterpieces fired onto ceramic panels and set outdoors; Ando's ramps make you look down on some and up at others.
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Kyoto Station Building
A vast glass structure dropped into a historic city, with a 171-metre atrium and a stair climbing to the roof - fiercely contested when built.
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Kyoto Art Center
A 1931 elementary school turned over to artists; the classrooms are the studios.
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Funaya Boat Houses of Ine
Ground floors open straight onto the sea so boats drive into the house; 230 of them ring the bay.
KyotoArchitectureNantan
Miyama Thatched Village
Most of the village is still thatched, and the rethatching is still done by the villagers together.
KyotoArchitectureMaizuru
Maizuru Red Brick Park
Twelve naval warehouses surviving together - a military complex preserved as an ensemble of brickwork.
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Dry Gardens of Kyoto
The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
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National Museum of Art, Osaka
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
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Osaka Museum of History
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
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Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.