HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
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HyogoArt & Crafts
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Kobe City Museum
In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.
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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
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Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
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Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
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Kitano Foreign Residences
Houses built by foreign residents after the port opened - German, English and colonial styles mixed along one hill.
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Sake Breweries of Nada
Japan's greatest sake district; the wooden brewhouses that survived the earthquake are now open as museums.
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Himeji Castle
Japan's first World Heritage castle: walls and even tile joints sealed in white plaster, the great keep flanked by three lesser ones.
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Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.
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Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.
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Sasayama Historic District
A castle town with two preservation districts, one merchant and one samurai, its shops presenting gable ends to the street.
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Hakushika Sake Museum
An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.
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Yodoko Guest House
One of only four Wright buildings left in Japan and the only house, its Oya stone carved in continuous geometric bands.
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Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
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Kinosaki Onsen
Inns were kept small and baths kept public, so the street works as the corridor of one large shared building.
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Takeda Castle Ruins
Only the stonework survives on a 353-metre summit - the outline of a castle drawn in stone along a ridge.
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Ikuno Silver Mine
A state mine where French engineers installed modern plant; the tunnels and their Western-style housing remain.
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Water Temple, Honpukuji
Stairs descend through the middle of a lotus pond into a hall beneath the water, its vermilion interior filled by the setting sun.
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Awaji Yumebutai
Built where a hill was quarried away for landfill: a hundred stepped flower beds attempting to remake the destroyed terrain.
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HyogoArchitectureTatsuno
Tatsuno Soy Sauce Town
Where light soy sauce was invented; white-walled brewhouses line the river and make the town's face.
HyogoContemporary ArtAkō
Salt Fields of Ako
Tidal salt fields once covered this coast; their divisions still show in how the land is parcelled.
Kobe
Port Architecture of Kobe
The old foreign settlement keeps its office blocks, most now reinforced after the earthquake but outwardly unchanged.