HyogoArt & CraftsMinamiawaji
Awaji Roof Tiles
Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.
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HyogoArt & Crafts
HyogoArchitectureAwaji
Water Temple, Honpukuji
Stairs descend through the middle of a lotus pond into a hall beneath the water, its vermilion interior filled by the setting sun.
HyogoArchitectureAwaji
Awaji Yumebutai
Built where a hill was quarried away for landfill: a hundred stepped flower beds attempting to remake the destroyed terrain.
HyogoArt & CraftsMiki
Miki Hardware
Smiths gathered to rebuild a castle and stayed; the town became Japan's main source of chisels and planes.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishiwaki
Banshu Textiles
Yarn dyed before weaving, so the colour holds; most of Japan's yarn-dyed cotton comes from this valley.
HyogoArt & CraftsOno
Banshu Abacus
Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.
HyogoArchitectureTatsuno
Tatsuno Soy Sauce Town
Where light soy sauce was invented; white-walled brewhouses line the river and make the town's face.
HyogoContemporary ArtAkō
Salt Fields of Ako
Tidal salt fields once covered this coast; their divisions still show in how the land is parcelled.
HyogoMuseumsAkashi
Akashi City Museum of Culture
In the town the standard meridian runs through, on its long role as a crossing point of the inland sea.
Kobe
Port Architecture of Kobe
The old foreign settlement keeps its office blocks, most now reinforced after the earthquake but outwardly unchanged.
Toyooka
Thatched Houses of Tajima and Tamba
Farmhouses whose roofs were raised for silkworms; snow load and the worms' temperature together set the shape.
Himeji
Leather of Himeji
Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.
HyogoArchitectureSumoto
Former Spinning Mills of Sumoto
A brick spinning mill converted into a library and shops - a case of industrial reuse.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Tetsujin Monument, Nagata
An earthquake-hit district raised an 18-metre robot from a local cartoonist's comic, paid for by residents.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Arima Onsen
Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.
Sanda
Sanda Celadon
A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.
Kobe
Churches of Kobe
Churches of many denominations arrived with the port; many fell in 1995, and their rebuilding shows its own era.
HyogoArchitectureHimeji
Kokoen Garden
Nine separate gardens divided by earthen walls, laid over the excavated foundations of samurai houses.
Tanba-Sasayama
Farmland of Tamba
Fog pools in the basin on autumn mornings until the fields read as a sea - crop, terrain and climate as one.
Nishiwaki
Saw-Tooth Mills of Nishiwaki
Roofs shaped to catch even north light for weaving, running along the river - form dictated by the trade.
HyogoCraft ExperiencesHyogo
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Works
Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe. It makes ships and marine equipment. It also builds submarines.
HyogoCraft ExperiencesHyogo
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Hyogo Works
The Hyogo Works in Kobe. It makes railway rolling stock. It also builds Shinkansen cars.
HyogoCraft ExperiencesHyogo
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Nishi-Kobe Works
A works in Nishi-Kobe. It makes hydraulic equipment and precision machinery.