Yamasa Soy Sauce Works
Three hundred and eighty years of brewing; wooden vats and modern factory halls share one site.
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Three hundred and eighty years of brewing; wooden vats and modern factory halls share one site.
A company town built on soy sauce, its skeleton formed by brick factories and brewers' mansions.
On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.
Fishing hamlets packed into each cove, board-clad houses layered above stone revetments.
The temple of the tanuki drumming song; its badger statues have made a folktale into a local emblem.
Sixty kilometres of straight sand, shaped by the sardine seine nets and the huts that served them.
Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.
Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.
Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.
Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.
A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.
Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.
The lakeside where Yanagi, Shiga and Mushanokoji all lived - the landscape behind the birth of mingei.
A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.
A genuine Dutch windmill shipped in pieces and assembled here, composed with the flower fields around it.
Long narrow paddies following valleys cut into the plateau - terrain dictating the shape of farming.
The sea where Nichiren was born, worshipped together with the temple that marks the place.
Japan's oldest museum and holder of the most National Treasures; its buildings alone span Meiji to the present.
Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.
Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.
Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.
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.