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Kochi Castle
The only castle in Japan keeping both its keep and its main palace, fitted with stone spouts against the heavy rain.
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Makino Botanical Garden
Holds the botanist Makino's exacting plant drawings, under timber roofs that Naito made ripple along the slope.
KochiNature & SceneryShimanto
Submersible Bridges of the Shimanto
Bridges built without railings, designed to be submerged by floods rather than resist them.
Yusuhara
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara
Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.
Yusuhara
Yusuhara Community Library
Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.
KochiArchitectureAki
Nora Dokei
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
Aki
Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles
Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.
KochiArchitectureMuroto
Hotsumisakiji
Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Hirome Market
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
Shimanto
Thatched Villages of the Shimanto
Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.
KochiArchitectureAki
Doi Kachu, Aki
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.
Yusuhara
Tea Halls of Yusuhara
Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Kochi Castle Town
Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.
KochiArchitectureSakawa
Sakawa Brewery Town
A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.
KochiArchitectureNakatosa
Fishing Villages of Nakatosa
A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.
Shimanto
River Boats of the Shimanto
Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
FukuokaMuseumsDazaifu
Kyushu National Museum
Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.
FukuokaArchitectureDazaifu
Dazaifu Tenmangu
Head shrine of all Tenmangu; its temporary hall, by Sou Fujimoto, carries a living grove on its roof.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Kushida Shrine
Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.
FukuokaArt & Crafts
FukuokaArt & CraftsKitakyushu
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.
FukuokaHistoric DistrictsKitakyushu
Mojiko Retro District
A cluster of buildings from the port's trading heyday; its timber station was the first in Japan made an Important Cultural Property.