Nomi
Nomi Kutani Ware Museum
Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.
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IshikawaMuseumsKomatsu
Komatsu City Museum
At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Ichijodani Asakura Family Site
A Sengoku castle town buried whole and excavated street by street; its four gardens are Places of Special Scenic Beauty.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Ichijodani Asakura Museum
Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.
FukuiMuseumsKatsuyama
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
A silver egg half-buried in the hills; among the world's three great dinosaur museums, architecture and display conceived together.
Echizen
Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
FukuiMuseumsEchizen
Fukui Ceramics Museum
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.
FukuiMuseumsSabae
Urushi no Sato Hall
The heart of the Kawada lacquer district, where each divided stage can be watched in the workshops next door.
FukuiMuseumsSabae
Glasses Museum
Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.
FukuiMuseumsWakasa
Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
Lacquer objects 12,000 years old from Torihama - among the earliest known use of lacquer anywhere.
FukuiMuseumsFukui
Asuwayama Burial Mounds
Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.
FukuiMuseumsTsuruga
Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.
FukuiMuseumsObama
Wakasa Kokubunji
One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.
FukuiMuseumsObama
Obama Food Culture Museum
On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.
YamanashiMuseumsFuefuki
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.
YamanashiMuseumsFujikawaguchiko
Mt Fuji World Heritage Center
Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.
Kofu
Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
YamanashiMuseumsFuefuki
Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture
One site yielded 1,116 clay figures, nearly all deliberately broken - breaking them appears to have been the ritual.
YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Archaeological Museum
Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
NaganoMuseumsOkaya
Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
NaganoMuseumsChino
Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum
The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.