GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.
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GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Byakue Daikannon
The tallest Kannon in the world when built in 1936, of reinforced concrete, climbable to nine storeys.
GunmaArchitectureTakasaki
Carvings of Haruna Shrine
Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.
GunmaArchitectureTomioka
Myogi Shrine
Backed by the jagged Myogi peaks, its black-lacquered halls carry a density of gilt carving close to Nikko's.
GunmaArchitectureShibukawa
Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon
A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.
GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Morinji and the Bunbuku Kettle
The temple of the tanuki-turned-kettle folktale, its approach lined with badger statues.
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Roadside Deities of Minakami
Paired male-and-female stone deities stand at roadsides; the province is dense with them.
Shibukawa
Stone Buddhas of Shibukawa
Buddhas cut into the rock at the foot of Mt Haruna, tracing a line of provincial stonemasons.
GunmaMuseumsTakasaki
Burial Mounds of Gunma
A land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.