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Sojiji Soin
Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.
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Oku-Noto Triennale
Held at the tip of a peninsula, using depopulated hamlets as its venue and their residents as its guides.
Suzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
IshikawaArchitectureHakui
Keta Taisha
Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.
Hakusan
Shiramine District
Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.
IshikawaArt & CraftsHakusan
Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury
Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.
IshikawaMuseumsKahoku
Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy
Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.
Kanazawa
Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa
Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.
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Wakura Onsen
A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.
Wajima
Magaki Fences of Noto
Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Teramachi Temple District
Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll
A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Mizuhiki
Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.
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Kanazawa Station Tsuzumi Gate
Timber columns shaped as Noh hand drums, met by a glass dome - a traditional form built by modern structure.
IshikawaArt & CraftsIshikawa
Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
The museum of urushi art in Wajima. It is said to be the only museum in Japan devoted solely to urushi art.
Ishikawa
Wajima Kobo Nagaya
The workshop row houses in Wajima. Visitors can watch artisans at work and try chinkin and maki-e.
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Ishikawa Prefectural Woodturning Training Institute
A prefectural training institute in Yamanaka. It passes the techniques of lathe woodturning on to the next generation.
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Nomi Kutani Ceramics Museum Gosaikan
The Kutani ware museum in Nomi. As the Gosaikan, it displays works from the production area.
Ishikawa
Kutani Pottery Village
Kutani Pottery Village in Nomi. Kilns are gathered here and sell their works.