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千葉県 · Art & museums

Villas of Ichinomiya

一宮町外房

Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tojo History Museum

松戸市北総

Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tobinodai Museum

船橋市千葉

Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Urayasu City Museum

浦安市千葉

The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Choshi Electric Railway

銚子市北総

A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Kominato Railway Stations

市原市上総

Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Chibadera

千葉市千葉

The clan temple of the Chiba family, its great ginkgo forming one image with the halls.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Lake Tega and the Shirakaba Circle

我孫子市北総

The lakeside where Yanagi, Shiga and Mushanokoji all lived - the landscape behind the birth of mingei.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Naritasan Approach

成田市北総

A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Dutch Windmill of Sakura

佐倉市北総

A genuine Dutch windmill shipped in pieces and assembled here, composed with the flower fields around it.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Yatsuda Valley Fields

千葉市千葉

Long narrow paddies following valleys cut into the plateau - terrain dictating the shape of farming.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tai no Ura

鴨川市外房

The sea where Nichiren was born, worshipped together with the temple that marks the place.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo National Museum

台東区城東

Japan's oldest museum and holder of the most National Treasures; its buildings alone span Meiji to the present.

東京都 · Art & museums

Gallery of Horyuji Treasures

台東区城東

Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Museum of Western Art

台東区城東

Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

台東区城東

Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.

東京都 · Art & museums

University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts

台東区城東

The collection of Japan's foremost art school, whose graduation works form a lineage of modern Japanese art.

東京都 · Art & museums

Asakura Museum of Sculpture

台東区城東

A sculptor's own house and studio, joining a concrete workshop to a sukiya residence around a stone-and-water court.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall

台東区城東

The house where Taikan lived and painted, its studio arranged to look out over the garden.

東京都 · Art & museums

Former Iwasaki Residence

台東区城東

Josiah Conder set a Jacobean mansion beside a Japanese wing, with a Swiss-style billiard house linked by tunnel.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

千代田区都心

Japan's first national art museum, holding more Important Cultural Properties of modern Japanese art than anywhere else.

東京都 · Art & museums

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

千代田区都心

Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.

東京都 · Art & museums

Museum of the Imperial Collections

千代田区都心

The imperial collection, including Jakuchu's thirty bird-and-flower scrolls - the outer limit of precision in Japanese painting.

東京都 · Art & museums

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

千代田区都心

A faithful reconstruction of Conder's 1894 office block, showing late 19th-century European art.