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An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.
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KanagawaArt & CraftsKanagawaMuseumsKamakura
Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
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Engakuji Shariden
Rafters radiating like a fan and densely packed brackets - the perfected form of Zen-style architecture from China.
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KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.
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KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.
Yokohama
BankART1929
Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Western Houses of Yamate
Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum
For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama History Museum
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum
Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.
KanagawaContemporary ArtOdawara
Enoura Observatory
Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.
KanagawaArchitectureOdawara
Matsunaga Memorial Hall
The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Fujiya Hotel
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
KanagawaArt & CraftsYokosuka
Yokosuka Museum of Art
A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.
KanagawaMuseumsHayama
Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
KanagawaArchitectureŌiso
Villas of Oiso
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
KanagawaContemporary ArtYokohama
Zou-no-hana Terrace
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
KanagawaArchitectureYokohama
Yokohama Kaigan Church
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
KanagawaArchitectureKawasaki
Kawasaki Daishi
Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.
KanagawaArchitectureHakone
Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.