FukushimaArchitectureAizuwakamatsu
Aizu Samurai Residence
A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.
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FukushimaArchitectureIwaki
Shiramizu Amidado
Fukushima's only National Treasure building, raised by a daughter of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and designed with its reflection in mind.
FukushimaMuseumsIwaki
Kusano Shimpei Memorial Museum
A museum for the frog poet, stretched along a ridge so the view becomes part of the display.
FukushimaArchitectureKitakata
Kitakata Storehouses
Over 4,000 storehouses in a town of 50,000 - some built as living rooms, not storage.
FukushimaArchitectureKitakata
Kumano Shrine Nagatoko
A hall of 44 pillars and a roof, with no walls at all - Heian architecture at its most open.
FukushimaArchitectureShimogo
Ouchi-juku
A post town of thatched houses lining the old highway, its power lines buried to keep the Edo view.
FukushimaMuseumsMinamiaizu
Okuaizu Museum
Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
FukushimaArchitectureHinoemata
Hinoemata Kabuki
A village of 500 has staged its own kabuki for 270 years, the audience seated on stone steps.
FukushimaArchitectureInawashiro
Tenkyokaku
An imperial prince's Renaissance-style villa above Lake Inawashiro, its original furniture intact.
FukushimaMuseumsInawashiro
Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum
The bacteriologist's birthplace preserved intact, including the pillar he carved his vow into.
Bandai
Enichiji Ruins
The seat of Aizu Buddhism, its main hall rebuilt in timber from excavation evidence.
FukushimaArchitectureShirakawa
Nanko Park
Opened to all classes in 1801 by Matsudaira Sadanobu - arguably Japan's first public park.
FukushimaArchitectureKoriyama
Asaka Reclamation and Canal
A Dutch engineer's canal that turned moorland into farmland - a designated Japan Heritage landscape.
FukushimaArchitectureFukushima
Former Horikiri Residence
A wealthy landowner's estate at Iizaka hot spring, its 18-metre storehouse showing rural merchant scale.
FukushimaArchitectureKoori
Former Date District Office
An 1883 district office in pseudo-Western style, showing how provincial officialdom absorbed the West.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Sake Breweries
Aizu keeps many Edo-period breweries, their brewing halls framed in massive timber.
FukushimaArchitectureMishima
Tadami Line Bridges
Arched railway bridges over a gorge, drawing photographers who treat the train as part of the composition.
FukushimaArchitectureShirakawa
Komine Castle
Its turret rebuilt in real timber; after the 2011 quake the stone walls were reassembled stone by numbered stone.
FukushimaArchitectureNihonmatsu
Kasumigajo Park
The Nihonmatsu castle site, its restored gate standing among meticulously trained pines.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Art Tower Mito
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKitaibaraki
Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
IbarakiArchitecture
IbarakiArchitectureKasama
Shumpu Banriso
Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.