KanagawaContemporary ArtOdawara
Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.
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KanagawaArchitectureOdawara
Matsunaga Memorial Hall
The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.
Odawara
Odawara Lacquerware
Turned bowls of Hakone timber finished so the grain still shows - lacquer that displays the wood, not itself.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Pola Museum of Art
One of Japan's great Impressionist collections, with 80 percent of the building buried to spare the forest.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Okada Museum of Art
Holds Utamaro's Deep Snow at Fukagawa, lost for seventy years, in one of Japan's largest private museums.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Lalique Museum Hakone
An actual Orient Express carriage with Lalique's glass panels, entered rather than viewed through a case.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Narukawa Art Museum
Four thousand works of contemporary Nihonga, and a window framing Mt Fuji across the lake by design.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Hakone Marquetry
Geometric patterns built from blocks of differently coloured woods and shaved into veneer - no dye is ever used.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Honma Yosegi Museum
Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Fujiya Hotel
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
KanagawaArt & CraftsManazuru
Nakagawa Kazumasa Museum
For a painter who returned to the same harbour and mountain for decades, working in oils, calligraphy and clay.
KanagawaArt & CraftsYokosuka
Yokosuka Museum of Art
A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.
KanagawaMuseumsHayama
Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
KanagawaMuseumsŌiso
Sawada Miki Memorial Museum
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Villas of Oiso
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
KanagawaArt & CraftsFujisawa
Enoshima Caves
Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Zou-no-hana Terrace
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Kaigan Church
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
KanagawaMuseumsSagamihara
Sagamihara City Museum
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
Atsugi
Atsugi Local History Museum and Buddhist Statues of Sagami
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.
KanagawaContemporary ArtMiura
Fishing Villages of Miura
Fishing hamlets pressed against wave-cut rock platforms - terrain and livelihood in direct contact.