TochigiArchitectureNikko
Nikko Kanaya Hotel
Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.
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Tamozawa Imperial Villa
An Edo merchant house, a Meiji villa and a Taisho wing joined into one 106-room building.
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Former Italian Embassy Villa
Antonin Raymond clad this lakeside villa in cedar bark laid in a checkerboard - geometry from raw material.
TochigiArchitectureNikko
Former British Embassy Villa
Built by the diplomat Ernest Satow, the villa that made Nikko an international summer resort.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Ashikaga School
Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.
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Tochigi Storehouse Town
A river-trade town of white-walled storehouses, nicknamed 'little Edo'.
TochigiArt & CraftsTochigi
Tochigi Kura Museum
Three 200-year-old earthen storehouses turned into galleries, exhibiting under their original beams.
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Okada Memorial Museum
The estate of a family of village heads for 550 years, its sukiya-style annex exceptional in materials.
TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Kumiko Woodwork
Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Nasu Stained Glass Museum
Nineteenth-century English stained glass reinstalled in purpose-built stone chapels.
TochigiMuseumsNasushiobara
Nasunogahara Museum
The record of how irrigation canals turned an alluvial fan into farmland.
TochigiArt & CraftsOyama
Oyama Kurumaya Museum
A rice merchant's storehouse and residence converted into galleries, the buildings themselves listed.
TochigiMuseumsShimotsuke
Shimotsuke Yakushiji Ruins
One of only three national ordination platforms in ancient Japan, and the only one in the east.
TochigiArchitectureNogi
Nogi Brick Kiln
A sixteen-sided Hoffmann kiln for continuous brick firing - one of only four left in Japan.
TochigiArchitectureUtsunomiya
Matsugamine Catholic Church
A Romanesque church built of Oya stone, among the largest surviving Oya-stone buildings and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
TochigiArchitectureNikko
Nikko Temple Town
A pilgrimage town whose inns and shopfronts layer centuries of visitors.
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Uzuma River and Black Fences
Black fences run the length of the river - a logistics structure that became the town's face.
TochigiArchitectureMoka
Moka Railway Steam Locomotive
A station built in the shape of a steam locomotive - machinery translated into architecture.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki City Art Museum
In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
GunmaArchitectureTomioka
Tomioka Silk Mill
A state silk mill of timber frames filled with brick; its 140-metre column-free reeling hall is a National Treasure.
GunmaArchitectureMaebashi
Shiroiya Hotel
Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.
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