IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Ware
A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.
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IbarakiArchitectureKasama
Shumpu Banriso
Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.
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Kasama Inari Museum
A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.
IbarakiMuseumsMito
Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History
A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.
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Tokugawa Museum
The Mito Tokugawa collection, including the sword Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, shown still scarred by the 1923 fire.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKashima
Kashima Jingu Treasure Hall
A 2.7-metre straight sword of the Nara period - among the largest surviving Japanese blades.
IbarakiMuseumsKoga
Koga Museum of History
An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKoga
Museum of Tenkoku Seal Carving
Japan's only museum of seal carving - an art that sits between calligraphy and sculpture.
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Koga Kubo Park and Takami Senseki Memorial
The samurai house where the Dutch-studies scholar Takami Senseki spent his last years.
IbarakiMuseumsChikusei
Itaya Hazan Memorial Museum
The birthplace of the first potter to receive Japan's Order of Culture, known for his veiled hoko glaze.
IbarakiArt & CraftsChikusei
Shimodate Museum of Art
Centred on Shigeru Morita, who painted Kurokawa Noh again and again.
IbarakiArt & CraftsYuki
Yuki Tsumugi
Silk floss drawn into thread by hand without twisting, then woven on a back-strap loom; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
IbarakiMuseumsYuki
Tsumugi no Yakata
In a merchant's storehouse, showing every stage from silk floss to finished cloth.
IbarakiArchitectureSakuragawa
Makabe Historic District
Some 100 registered historic buildings in one small town, layered from the Edo period to the 20th century.
IbarakiArt & CraftsSakuragawa
Makabe Stone Lanterns
Lanterns cut from Tsukuba granite by a town of stonemasons working since the Edo period.
IbarakiArchitectureHitachi
Hitachi Station
Kazuyo Sejima's all-glass concourse frames the Pacific like a picture; an internationally awarded station.
IbarakiMuseumsHitachi
Hitachi City Museum
The record of a mining and electrical town, including the 156-metre chimney once the world's tallest.
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Tsuchiura City Museum
Swords of the Tsuchiya lords, shown beside the fishing gear of Lake Kasumigaura.
IbarakiContemporary ArtToride
Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride
A campus of Tokyo's art university, whose community art project has run since 1999.
IbarakiArchitectureSakai
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Sakai
A town of 20,000 commissioned several public buildings from Kengo Kuma, all clad in layered cedar.
IbarakiArt & CraftsHitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Washi
Paper so strong it was used for ledgers and firemen's coats, once reserved for the Mito domain.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Carvings of Kasama Inari
Vegetables and fruit carved in fine relief around the hall - shrine carpentry at close range.
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IbarakiContemporary ArtMito
Plum Groves of Mito
Plum trees planted as emergency food became the garden itself - utility turned into landscape.