MieMuseumsIse
Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
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MieMuseumsSuzuka
Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall
On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.
Yokkaichi
Banko no Sato Hall
The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.
MieMuseumsIga
Iga Ninja Museum
A relocated farmhouse full of mechanisms - revolving walls and floor caches - shown as carpentry, not legend.
MieMuseumsToba
Toba Sea-Folk Museum
The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.
MieMuseumsToba
Mikimoto Pearl Island
Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.
MieMuseumsMeiwa
Saiku Historical Museum
The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
Toba
Tools of the Ama Divers
The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.
ShigaMuseumsOtsu
Otsu City Museum of History
Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.
ShigaMuseumsHikone
Hikone Castle Museum
The lord's palace rebuilt in timber to hold the Ii family's red-lacquered armour and its Noh masks and robes.
ShigaMuseumsOmihachiman
Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum
The centre of research reconstructing Azuchi Castle; the ongoing argument about its form is itself the exhibition.
ShigaMuseumsNagahama
Nagahama Hikiyama Museum
Floats built as stages on which children perform kabuki, covered in lacquer, metal fittings and embroidered hangings.
ShigaMuseumsYasu
Yasu Dotaku Museum
Where Japan's largest bronze bell was found - 134 cm tall - and where 24 were once buried together, for reasons still argued.
ShigaMuseumsHigashiomi
Omi Merchant Museum
On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
ShigaMuseumsKusatsu
Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Ryukoku Museum
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Yurinkan Museum
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
KyotoMuseumsUji
Byodoin Museum Hoshokan
Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.
OsakaMuseumsOsaka
Osaka Museum of History
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
OsakaMuseumsOsaka
Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.