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Kairakuen and Kobuntei
One of Japan's three great gardens; the lord designed the pavilion himself, naming each room for its painted plants.
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Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History
A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.
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Koga Museum of History
An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.
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Koga Kubo Park and Takami Senseki Memorial
The samurai house where the Dutch-studies scholar Takami Senseki spent his last years.
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Makabe Historic District
Some 100 registered historic buildings in one small town, layered from the Edo period to the 20th century.
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Chateau Kamiya
Japan's first true winery; three brick buildings in French style, designated Important Cultural Properties.
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Hitachi Station
Kazuyo Sejima's all-glass concourse frames the Pacific like a picture; an internationally awarded station.
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Hitachi City Museum
The record of a mining and electrical town, including the 156-metre chimney once the world's tallest.
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Kengo Kuma Buildings in Sakai
A town of 20,000 commissioned several public buildings from Kengo Kuma, all clad in layered cedar.
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Signboard Architecture of Ishioka
Rebuilt after a great fire, the street keeps a run of shops with Western facades pasted onto Japanese frames.
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ATM Concert Hall
Gallery, theatre and concert hall bound together by a tower - Isozaki's model of a civic arts complex.
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Tsukuba Center Building
Its sunken plaza inverts Michelangelo's Campidoglio - a high point of Japanese postmodern architecture.
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Tsukuba Science City
A science city built to state plan, and with it a dense archive of 1970s Japanese public architecture.
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Storehouses of Yuki
A textile trading town whose merchant storehouses still show where the money went.
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Painted Doors of Kobuntei
Each room is named for a plant and painted to match; the doors were restored after wartime fire.
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Oarai Industrial Landscape
A shoreline of harbour works and factories, where industrial structure reads as landscape.
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Oya History Museum
Seventy years of quarrying left a cathedral-scale void underground - architecture made purely by subtraction.
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Oya Stone Buildings
The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.
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Nikko Toshogu
Over 5,000 carvings smother these halls in gold and colour - the summit of Japanese decorative architecture.
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Rinnoji Taiyuin
Iemitsu's mausoleum answers Toshogu's brilliance with restraint - black and gold, and 315 lanterns on the slope.
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Nikko Futarasan Shrine
The heart of Nikko's mountain worship, keeping a National Treasure sword in its treasury.