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Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.
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Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga
A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.
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Toyama Glass Art Museum
Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.
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Iwase District and Mori House
A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.
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Owara Kaze no Bon
Dancers hide their faces under deep sedge hats and move through a hillside town all night - dance and streets inseparable.
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Kanayamachi District
The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.
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Yamachosuji District
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.
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Inami Woodcarving
Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.
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Gokayama Gassho Villages
Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.
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Aizen-en, Munakata Shiko's House
Munakata lived here for nearly seven years and painted directly onto the walls - even the lavatory - making the house itself the work.
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Scattered Farmsteads of Tonami
Farmhouses stand singly in the fields, each ringed by its own windbreak - a whole plain stippled in green.
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Shimoyama Art Forest Power Plant Museum
A 1926 hydroelectric plant turned gallery, keeping its penstocks and turbine beds; artists make work for that space.
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Nunobashi Kanjoe
Women barred from the sacred peak crossed a bridge laid with white cloth instead; the revived procession is itself a form.
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Toyama Civic Hall
Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.
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Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe
A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.
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Uchikawa Canal
Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.
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Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge
Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.
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Hillside Streets of Yatsuo
Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.
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Fugan Canal Park
A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.
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Inami Streets
Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.
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Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.