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東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

八王子市多摩

A private collection running unbroken from the Renaissance to the 20th century - rare in Japan.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tama Art University Museum

多摩市多摩

An art university's museum out in the town, linking its research to the public.

東京都 · Art & museums

Kichijoji Art Museum

武蔵野市多摩

A small museum on the seventh floor of a shopping building, with a room for Yozo Hamaguchi's colour mezzotints.

東京都 · Art & museums

PLAY! MUSEUM

立川市多摩

A venue narrowed to pictures and words, showing picture-book and manga originals with museum discipline.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sawanoi Comb and Hairpin Museum

青梅市多摩

Four thousand combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the technique poured into them.

東京都 · Art & museums

Kihachijo Silk

八丈町島しょ

Silk dyed yellow, brown and black using only the island's own plants, from dye pot to loom.

東京都 · Art & museums

Murayama Oshima Tsumugi

武蔵村山市多摩

Kasuri patterns dyed by clamping threads between carved boards - an Amami technique reworked near Tokyo.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Komon Stencil Dyeing

新宿区都心

Stencil patterns so fine the cloth reads as plain from a distance; still dyed along the Kanda river.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Silverware

台東区城東

A single silver sheet raised into a vessel by hammer, a line of Edo metalwork still worked in backstreet studios.

東京都 · Art & museums

Edo Woodblock Printing

台東区城東

Designer, carver and printer each do their part; the colours are still layered block by block as they were.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sensoji

台東区城東

Tokyo's oldest temple; dragons and celestial maidens by two major Nihonga painters cover the main hall's ceiling.

東京都 · Art & museums

Rikugien

文京区都心

A garden that recreates places from classical poetry, each view carrying the name of its poem.

東京都 · Art & museums

Nihonbashi Bridge

中央区都心

The zero milestone of Japan's highways, guarded by winged kirin cast in bronze.

東京都 · Art & museums

Japan National Stadium

新宿区都心

Cedar from all 47 prefectures lines the eaves, each set facing the direction of its own province.

東京都 · Art & museums

teamLab Permanent Installations

港区都心

Projected environments that respond to visitors' movement, which established permanent digital art venues in Japan.

東京都 · Art & museums

Koishikawa Korakuen

文京区都心

The Mito Tokugawa garden, scattered with scenes copied from China; one bridge completes a full moon in its reflection.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

葉山町鎌倉・湘南

Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

MOMAT Kamakura Annex

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura Museum

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura Museum of National Treasures

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Engakuji Shariden

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Rafters radiating like a fan and densely packed brackets - the perfected form of Zen-style architecture from China.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kenchoji

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Japan's first purpose-built Zen monastery, its halls still ranged on the single Chinese axis.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Great Buddha of Kamakura

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

An 11-metre bronze Buddha that lost its hall to a tsunami; sitting in the open, its casting seams are visible inside and out.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kaburaki Kiyokata Memorial Art Museum

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

On the site of the home of Kiyokata, the last great painter of bijinga, who drew the ordinary streets of Meiji Tokyo.