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福島県 · Art & museums

Obori Soma Ware

浪江町浜通り

Double-walled cups that stay cool to hold; every kiln was evacuated after 2011 and is rebuilding elsewhere.

福島県 · Art & museums

Kawamata Silk

川俣町中通り

Weaving thread one-sixth the width of a human hair - a small district holding a world record for thinness.

福島県 · Art & museums

Shirakawa Daruma

白河市中通り

Its face is built from lucky symbols - crane eyebrows, pine nose - to a design commissioned by the local lord.

福島県 · Art & museums

Nanko Park

白河市中通り

Opened to all classes in 1801 by Matsudaira Sadanobu - arguably Japan's first public park.

福島県 · Art & museums

Asaka Reclamation and Canal

郡山市中通り

A Dutch engineer's canal that turned moorland into farmland - a designated Japan Heritage landscape.

福島県 · Art & museums

Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum

双葉町浜通り

The national archive of the nuclear disaster, raising the question of how such records should be shown.

福島県 · Art & museums

Former Horikiri Residence

福島市中通り

A wealthy landowner's estate at Iizaka hot spring, its 18-metre storehouse showing rural merchant scale.

福島県 · Art & museums

Former Date District Office

桑折町中通り

An 1883 district office in pseudo-Western style, showing how provincial officialdom absorbed the West.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Cotton

会津若松市会津

Thick striped cotton the domain spread as farmers' workwear, each district with its own stripe.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Painted Candles

会津若松市会津

Flowers painted onto candles for altars in winter, when no real blossom could be found.

福島県 · Art & museums

Byakkotai Memorial Hall

会津若松市会津

A private collection on the Boshin War, on the slope of Mt Iimori beside the Sazaedo.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Sake Breweries

会津若松市会津

Aizu keeps many Edo-period breweries, their brewing halls framed in massive timber.

福島県 · Art & museums

Inawashiro Rural Landscape

猪苗代町会津

Mt Bandai reflected in flooded rice fields - one of Tohoku's defining compositions.

福島県 · Art & museums

Tadami Line Bridges

三島町会津

Arched railway bridges over a gorge, drawing photographers who treat the train as part of the composition.

福島県 · Art & museums

Okuaizu Woven Craft

三島町会津

Three weaving traditions using mountain vines and grasses, kept alive as winter handwork.

福島県 · Art & museums

Stone Guardians of Fukushima

福島市中通り

Guardian lions at local shrines, a record of provincial stonemasons' skill.

福島県 · Art & museums

Hanamiyama Park

福島市中通り

A flower farmer opened his own hillside to the public, planting it as a single composition.

福島県 · Art & museums

Spa Resort Hawaiians Hula

いわき市浜通り

A closing coal town turned its mine water into a resort; the first dancers were the miners' daughters.

福島県 · Art & museums

Komine Castle

白河市中通り

Its turret rebuilt in real timber; after the 2011 quake the stone walls were reassembled stone by numbered stone.

福島県 · Art & museums

Kasumigajo Park

二本松市中通り

The Nihonmatsu castle site, its restored gate standing among meticulously trained pines.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki

水戸市県央

On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Art Tower Mito

水戸市県央

Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art

北茨城市県北

Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Rokkakudo

北茨城市県北

Okakura Tenshin's own vermilion pavilion on a sea rock, swept away by the tsunami and rebuilt from analysis of its timbers.