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埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu Night Festival Floats

秩父市秩父

Ten-tonne floats hauled up a steep slope; their carvings and hangings are craft objects in motion.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kadokawa Culture Museum

所沢市西部

Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Seishido and Seifutei

深谷市県北

Built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday in local brick, its interior threaded with Asian motifs.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Fukaya Station

深谷市県北

The town that supplied Tokyo Station's bricks rebuilt its own station in Tokyo Station's image.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper

小川町西部

Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Higashichichibu Washi Village

東秩父村秩父

Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchi Ironware

川口市東部

Casting everything from Toshogu lanterns to cooking pots; its forest of cupola furnaces became a film subject.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchi Art Gallery Atlia

川口市東部

Exhibition and studio under one roof, giving the old foundry town a contemporary art base.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

SKIP City Visual Museum

川口市東部

A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Heirinji

新座市西部

A Zen temple inside 43 hectares of coppice woodland, itself a Natural Monument.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kasukabe Paulownia Chests

春日部市東部

Said to have begun when Toshogu craftsmen made chests from leftover paulownia.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Konosu Hina Doll Festival

鴻巣市県央

A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwatsuki Dolls

さいたま市県央

Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Soka Matsubara

草加市東部

A kilometre and a half of pines along the old Nikko highway, walked by Basho and now a Place of Scenic Beauty.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama Museum of Rivers

寄居町県北

Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Hachigata Castle Ruins

寄居町県北

Set between a river cliff and a ravine, its earthworks preserve the engineering of Sengoku castle-building.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Ogano Kabuki

小鹿野町秩父

Festival floats are reassembled into a stage; townspeople act, and make the sets and costumes themselves.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwadatami of Nagatoro

長瀞町秩父

Rock metamorphosed deep underground, now surfacing along the river in slabs like laid tatami.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Tokorozawa Aviation Museum

所沢市西部

On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Koma Shrine and District

日高市西部

A district settled by refugees from Goguryeo; the thatched Koma house still stands.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Yoshimi Hyakuana

吉見町県央

Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kumagaya Dyeing

熊谷市県北

Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Omiya Hikawa Approach

さいたま市県央

A two-kilometre approach, among Japan's longest, forming a green axis through the modern city.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Honjo Waseda Museum

本庄市県北

Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.