Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum
The national archive of the nuclear disaster, raising the question of how such records should be shown.
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
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The national archive of the nuclear disaster, raising the question of how such records should be shown.
A wealthy landowner's estate at Iizaka hot spring, its 18-metre storehouse showing rural merchant scale.
An 1883 district office in pseudo-Western style, showing how provincial officialdom absorbed the West.
Thick striped cotton the domain spread as farmers' workwear, each district with its own stripe.
Flowers painted onto candles for altars in winter, when no real blossom could be found.
A private collection on the Boshin War, on the slope of Mt Iimori beside the Sazaedo.
Aizu keeps many Edo-period breweries, their brewing halls framed in massive timber.
Mt Bandai reflected in flooded rice fields - one of Tohoku's defining compositions.
Arched railway bridges over a gorge, drawing photographers who treat the train as part of the composition.
Three weaving traditions using mountain vines and grasses, kept alive as winter handwork.
Guardian lions at local shrines, a record of provincial stonemasons' skill.
A flower farmer opened his own hillside to the public, planting it as a single composition.
A closing coal town turned its mine water into a resort; the first dancers were the miners' daughters.
Its turret rebuilt in real timber; after the 2011 quake the stone walls were reassembled stone by numbered stone.
The Nihonmatsu castle site, its restored gate standing among meticulously trained pines.
On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.
A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.
Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.
A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.