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Hirakata-juku
Where the river traffic met the highway; the old boatmen's inn survives as a museum.
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Garden Suburbs of Ikeda
Japan's first estate of houses sold to commuters - the model on which railway companies built the suburbs.
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Kishiwada Castle
Shigemori Mirei laid a dry garden in the keep's yard, its stones arranged as the battle formations of a Chinese strategist.
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Keitakuen Garden
By Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden - hidden behind the city art museum.
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Shopfront Design of Osaka
Giant three-dimensional signs - a crab, a pufferfish, an octopus - built out over the street as the city's own visual idiom.
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Osaka Aquarium and Modern Architecture
Visitors spiral downward past the tanks - a building where the route itself decides the order of what you see.
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Otsuki Noh Theatre
An early example of a full Noh stage built indoors, bridge and painted pine and all.
Osaka
Mint Cherry Blossom Walk
The Mint opens its grounds for one week a year, one-way, past 130 varieties of cherry planted in sequence.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Kobe City Museum
In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.
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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
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Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
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Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
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Kitano Foreign Residences
Houses built by foreign residents after the port opened - German, English and colonial styles mixed along one hill.
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Sake Breweries of Nada
Japan's greatest sake district; the wooden brewhouses that survived the earthquake are now open as museums.
HyogoArchitectureHimeji
Himeji Castle
Japan's first World Heritage castle: walls and even tile joints sealed in white plaster, the great keep flanked by three lesser ones.
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Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.
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Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.
Tanba-Sasayama
Sasayama Historic District
A castle town with two preservation districts, one merchant and one samurai, its shops presenting gable ends to the street.
HyogoMuseumsNishinomiya
Hakushika Sake Museum
An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.
HyogoArchitectureAshiya
Yodoko Guest House
One of only four Wright buildings left in Japan and the only house, its Oya stone carved in continuous geometric bands.
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Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
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Kinosaki Onsen
Inns were kept small and baths kept public, so the street works as the corridor of one large shared building.