FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Koriyama City Museum of Art
Unusually for Japan, built around British modern art, on a hill facing Mt Adatara.
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FukushimaArt & CraftsNihonmatsu
Oyama Chusaku Museum
The personal museum of a Nihonga painter and Order of Culture laureate, born in this castle town.
FukushimaMuseumsNihonmatsu
Chieko Memorial Museum
The paper collages Chieko Takamura cut during her illness, shown in her family's sake brewery.
Nihonmatsu
Nihonmatsu Chrysanthemum Dolls
Life-size figures clothed in living chrysanthemums, which keep blooming and changing through the show.
FukushimaMuseumsSukagawa
Tsuburaya Eiji Museum
In the home town of the man behind Godzilla and Ultraman, showing miniature-making as a craft.
FukushimaContemporary ArtSukagawa
Sukagawa Taimatsu Akashi
Thirty torches ten metres tall and three tonnes each, built from bamboo and straw, then set alight.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Miharu Papier-mache
Four workshops making Miharu horses in the same hamlet since the 1700s.
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.
FukushimaArt & CraftsShowa
Karamushi Textile Village
A village that grows, strips, spins and weaves ramie - the fibre behind Niigata's finest hemp cloth.
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.
FukushimaArt & CraftsMinamisoma
Soma Nomaoi
Five hundred riders in real armour, each carrying the banner design handed down in his family.
FukushimaArt & CraftsSoma
Soma Koma Ware
A domain kiln passed from father to single son, its bowls painted with running horses under a crackled glaze.
FukushimaArt & CraftsNamie
Obori Soma Ware
Double-walled cups that stay cool to hold; every kiln was evacuated after 2011 and is rebuilding elsewhere.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKawamata
Kawamata Silk
Weaving thread one-sixth the width of a human hair - a small district holding a world record for thinness.
Shirakawa
Shirakawa Daruma
Its whole face is built from lucky symbols: crane eyebrows, turtle whiskers, and pine, bamboo and plum in the sideburns and beard, to a design commissioned by the local lord.
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.
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