GifuMuseumsGifu
Gifu City Museum of History
On the castle town Nobunaga built, with his free-market street reconstructed at full size to be walked through.
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GifuMuseumsTajimi
Tajimi Mosaic Tile Museum
Terunobu Fujimori shaped the building like the clay pit itself, its walls studded with tiles so the architecture is the specimen.
GifuMuseumsToki
Toki Mino Ceramics History Museum
Sherds from the kilns that fired Shino and Oribe - technique read from the failures rather than the finished pots.
GifuMuseumsMizunami
Mizunami Ceramics Museum
From Momoyama tea ware to modern export porcelain, including the designs made purely for foreign markets.
GifuMuseumsSeki
Seki Sword Tradition Museum
Smiths forge in public here on set days - the sparks and the sound included in what is shown.
GifuMuseumsMino
Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
GifuMuseumsKakamigahara
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
ShizuokaMuseums
ShizuokaMuseumsFujinomiya
Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka
An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.
ShizuokaMuseumsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Setogura Museum
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Maneki-neko Museum
Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
INAX Live Museum
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
AichiMuseumsTahara
Tahara City Museum
The largest holding of Watanabe Kazan, the samurai painter who brought Western shading into Japanese portraiture.
AichiMuseumsToyohashi
Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History
In the old castle park, holding work by Nakamura Fusetsu, who was both calligrapher and oil painter.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Noritake Garden
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Toyota Commemorative Museum
In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.
AichiMuseumsNishio
Iwase Bunko Library
Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Hosa Library
The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.
AichiMuseumsToyota
Sanage Kiln Sites
Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
Tokoname Ceramics Institute
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.
AichiMuseumsAma
Shippo Art Village
In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.
MieMuseumsTsu
Mie Prefectural Museum
Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.
MieMuseumsIse
Jingu Chokokan Museum
A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.