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群馬県 · Art & museums

Burial Mounds of Gunma

高崎市西毛

A land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Silk Landscape of Kanra and Tomioka

富岡市西毛

Mulberry fields and heightened roofs - an industry that reshaped both land and houses.

群馬県 · Art & museums

River Terraces of Numata

沼田市北毛

River terraces stacked like steps, with the town on one of them - geology legible as a drawing.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Arts Theatre

高崎市西毛

A large theatre by the station, designed around acoustics as home to the Gunma Symphony.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Stone Walls of Kanayama Castle

太田市東毛

Few medieval castles in eastern Japan used this much stone; its walls and ponds are restored from excavation.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Jomo Karuta Cards

前橋市中毛

A postwar card game every local memorises; its 44 illustrated cards are effectively Gunma's tourist map.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

さいたま市県央

Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Urawa Art Museum

さいたま市県央

One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Omiya Bonsai Art Museum

さいたま市県央

The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwatsuki Doll Museum

さいたま市県央

Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore

さいたま市県央

A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama International Art Festival

さいたま市県央

A triennial staged in empty buildings and shopping streets, run with residents on the team.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawagoe Kurazukuri Street

川越市西部

Edo's merchant architecture is almost gone in Tokyo; here a street of black-plastered shop-storehouses survives.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Toki no Kane Bell Tower

川越市西部

A wooden bell tower rebuilt four times since the 1600s, still ringing four times a day.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kitain

川越市西部

Buildings moved here from Edo Castle, and 538 stone rakan figures, no two with the same face.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawagoe City Art Museum

川越市西部

Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum

蕨市県央

A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Toyama Memorial Museum

川島町県央

A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels

東松山市県央

A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Menuma Shodenzan

熊谷市県北

Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Sakitama Burial Mounds

行田市県北

A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Tabi Storehouses of Gyoda

行田市県北

A town that once made 80 percent of Japan's tabi socks; over 80 of its storehouses survive.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu Meisen

秩父市秩父

Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Carvings of Chichibu Shrine

秩父市秩父

Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.