TokyoArt & CraftsChuo
Mitsui Memorial Museum
Three centuries of Mitsui family collecting; one of only two Japanese-made tea bowls designated National Treasure is here.
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Suntory Museum of Art
Its stated theme is beauty in daily life - lacquer, glass and textiles shown as art because they were made to be used.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
An imperial prince who saw Art Deco in Paris brought French decorators home; Lalique's glass doors are still in place.
TokyoArt & CraftsMinato
Musee Tomo
A private museum of postwar Japanese ceramics, its spiral glass staircase designed as part of the display.
TokyoArt & CraftsMeguro
Japan Folk Crafts Museum
Soetsu Yanagi built it to show anonymous craftsmen's work as art; he designed the building and even the display stands.
TokyoArt & CraftsShibuya
Toguri Museum of Art
A private porcelain museum that lines up one vessel type by date, so technique can be watched changing.
TokyoArt & CraftsKoto
Edo Kiriko Glass
Coloured glass cased over clear, then cut away to leave the pattern - a craft born of Edo townsman culture.
TokyoArt & CraftsOme
Sawanoi Comb and Hairpin Museum
A museum with about 4,000 items centered on combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the techniques poured into hair ornaments.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama Doll Museum
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
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
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
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.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Kawasaki Daishi
Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.
Kamo
Kamo Paulownia Chests
A major share of Japan's paulownia chests; the wood swells with humidity, sealing the drawers by itself.
NiigataArt & CraftsKashiwazaki
Kimura Tea Ceremony Museum
Visitors drink from the collection's own bowls - a museum that hands over its objects rather than glazing them in.
NiigataArt & CraftsSado
Mumyoi Ware
Made from iron-rich earth taken from the gold mine, fired so hard the pots ring like metal.
Sado
Aikawa Craft Museum
Keeps Sado's pottery and its rag weaving - both born from using up what the island had.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Shirone Giant Kite Battle
Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Nuttari Terrace
A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.
NiigataMuseumsItoigawa
Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.
ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Glass Studio
Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.