KanagawaMuseumsKamakura
Kamakura Museum of National Treasures
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
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KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Silk Museum
Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama Doll Museum
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama History Museum
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
KanagawaMuseumsKawasaki
Fujiko F Fujio Museum
For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.
KanagawaMuseumsŌiso
Sawada Miki Memorial Museum
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
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.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
NiigataMuseumsNiigata
Niigata City History Museum
Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.
NiigataMuseumsNagaoka
Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.
NiigataMuseumsTokamachi
Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
NiigataMuseumsTsubame
Tsubame Industrial Museum
A metalworking town's archive, following a single copper sheet as hammering turns it into a vessel.
NiigataMuseumsSado
Sado Gold Mine
A mountain split in two by hand; the mine that backed Edo's gold currency, now a World Heritage industrial landscape.
NiigataMuseumsSado
Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.
NiigataMuseumsNagaoka
Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
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.
ToyamaMuseumsToyama
Toyama Folkcraft Village
Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.
ToyamaMuseumsTateyama
Toyama Prefectural Tateyama Museum
Holds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.
ToyamaMuseumsUozu
Uozu Buried Forest Museum
Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.
Toyama
Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks
The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History
Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum
The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.