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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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Gifu Media Cosmos
Toyo Ito's lattice of thin timber spans the whole hall; fabric 'globes' divide air and light instead of air-conditioning.
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Kawaramachi District
A wholesalers' quarter on the river, its lattice fronts once fronting the paper and lantern trades.
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Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
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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.
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Udatsu Townscape of Mino
Firewalls between houses grew into displays of wealth here - the origin of a Japanese idiom for getting ahead in life.
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Sanmachi District, Takayama
A merchant town under direct shogunal rule, its eaves heights and lattice spacing aligned along the whole street.
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Takayama Jinya
The only shogunal magistrate's office left standing in Japan - office, residence and granary intact as one complex.
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Kusakabe Folk Museum
A merchant house whose massive beam frame was deliberately left exposed to display the Hida carpenters' skill.
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Yoshijima Family Residence
A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.
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Carpenters of Hida
In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.
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Setogawa Canal, Hida Furukawa
A canal of carp running beside white storehouses, the town regulating even the colour of its signs.
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Shirakawa-go Gassho Villages
Roofs pitched near 60 degrees against the snow, rethatched by the whole village working together under an old mutual-aid system.
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Gujo Hachiman
Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.
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Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
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Iwamura Historic District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.
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Magome-juku
A post town paved up a slope, its houses stepped along the hill; the novelist Toson Shimazaki was born here.
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Gero Gassho Village
Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.
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Japan Taisho Village
A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.
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Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
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Suimon River, Ogaki
Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.
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Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
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Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.