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栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Temple Town

日光市県北

A pilgrimage town whose inns and shopfronts layer centuries of visitors.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Uzuma River and Black Fences

栃木市県南

Black fences run the length of the river - a logistics structure that became the town's face.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Moka Railway Steam Locomotive

真岡市県東

A station built in the shape of a steam locomotive - machinery translated into architecture.

群馬県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

高崎市西毛

Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

館林市東毛

Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki City Art Museum

高崎市西毛

In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tomioka Silk Mill

富岡市西毛

A state silk mill of timber frames filled with brick; its 140-metre column-free reeling hall is a National Treasure.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Gunma Prefectural Museum of History

高崎市西毛

Gunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Arts Maebashi

前橋市中毛

A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Shiroiya Hotel

前橋市中毛

Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rinkokaku

前橋市中毛

A guest house built by public subscription, its 150-mat hall spanned without dividing columns.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Okawa Museum of Art

桐生市東毛

The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Textiles

桐生市東毛

Ranked with Nishijin as Japan's other great weaving city; seven of its techniques are designated together.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Shinmachi Historic District

桐生市東毛

Saw-toothed weaving sheds, built for north light, stand mixed among the townhouses.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Yurinkan

桐生市東毛

Eleven Edo-to-Taisho storehouses turned into venues, their darkness and echo now part of the programme.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Textile Memorial Hall

桐生市東毛

The 1934 weavers' guild office, faced in scratch tile and now a registered cultural property.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Ota City Museum and Library

太田市東毛

Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Hara Museum ARC

渋川市北毛

Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Nakanojo Biennale

中之条町北毛

A biennial in a town of 15,000, staged in closed schools and empty houses and run by residents.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Sekizenkan

中之条町北毛

Among Japan's oldest surviving hot-spring inn buildings, its 1691 wing and red arched bridge still in use.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan

高崎市西毛

Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Senshintei, Bruno Taut's House

高崎市西毛

The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Byakue Daikannon

高崎市西毛

The tallest Kannon in the world when built in 1936, of reinforced concrete, climbable to nine storeys.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Carvings of Haruna Shrine

高崎市西毛

Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.