FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Imperial Steel Works, Yahata
Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.
Japan library1,252 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
1,252ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
1,252 entries / page 44 of 53
FukuokaArchitecture
FukuokaMuseumsKitakyushu
Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum
The novelist's Tokyo house rebuilt full size, library and all, down to how the papers were piled.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Kokura Castle
Its top storey overhangs the one below - the 'Chinese style' keep - beside a reconstructed shoin and garden.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume City Art Museum
At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.
FukuokaArchitectureŌmuta
Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit
The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Canals of Yanagawa
Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana
A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
FukuokaArchitectureIizuka
Former Ito Denemon Residence
A coal magnate's mansion, keeping the rooms and garden he prepared for his poet wife.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
ACROS Fukuoka
Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.
Fukuoka
Nexus World
Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.
FukuokaArchitectureFukutsu
Miyajidake Shrine
Twice a year the setting sun lines up exactly with the approach, laying a band of light to the sea.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Canal City Hakata
A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Hakata Machiya Folk Museum
A relocated Meiji weaver's house, with hand-weaving and top-spinning demonstrated inside it.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Ohori Park
A castle moat turned park, modelled on West Lake in China, crossed by islands and bridges.
FukuokaArchitectureFukuoka
Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Whether it ever had a keep is still argued; the scale of the walls shows it was among Kyushu's largest fortresses.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Former Mitsui Club, Moji
A trading company's club in half-timbered style, keeping the room where Einstein stayed exactly as it was.
FukuokaArchitectureUkiha
Ukiha White Walls
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, with water channels running through it.
Yame
Rural Stages of Chikugo
Stages villages built for themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the audience.
FukuokaMuseumsNōgata
Nogata Coal Museum
At the heart of the Chikuho coalfield, keeping a mock tunnel built for rescue training.
SagaArt & CraftsSaga
Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
SagaArchitectureArita
Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Tozan Shrine
Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.