KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Naoshima Bath I Love Yu
A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.
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KagawaArt & CraftsTonosho
Teshima Art Museum
A columnless concrete shell shaped like a water drop; water seeps from the floor and moves through the day - work and building indistinguishable.
KagawaArt & CraftsTonosho
Teshima Yokoo House
An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Ritsurin Garden
It takes the mountain behind it into the garden; its pines have been shaped by hand, tree by tree, for three centuries.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Takamatsu Castle
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Shikoku Mura
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
KagawaArt & Crafts
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Marugame Castle
The smallest of Japan's surviving keeps on its tallest stone walls - four tiers curving up like an opened fan.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Nakazu Banshoen
A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.
KagawaArchitectureKotohira
Kotohiragu
Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main hall, and rooms painted by Maruyama Okyo at the top of them.
KagawaArchitectureKotohira
Kanamaruza Theatre
Japan's oldest surviving playhouse; its revolve and traps are still turned by men working under the stage.
KagawaArchitecture
KagawaArchitectureHigashikagawa
Hiketa District
A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.
Shodoshima
Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima
Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.
KagawaArchitectureShodoshima
Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima
Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.
KagawaContemporary ArtTakamatsu
Ogijima and Megijima
Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.
KagawaArchitectureManno
Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
KagawaArchitectureNaoshima
Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.
EhimeArchitectureMatsuyama
Matsuyama Castle
One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.
EhimeArchitectureMatsuyama
Dogo Onsen Honkan
A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.