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神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura-bori Lacquer Carving

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Museum of Art

横浜市横浜・川崎

Among the first Japanese museums to collect photography seriously, and the symmetrical anchor of the Minato Mirai axis.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

横浜市横浜・川崎

Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall

横浜市横浜・川崎

One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Sankeien

横浜市横浜・川崎

A silk merchant moved seventeen historic buildings here from Kyoto and elsewhere, re-siting each to suit the new terrain.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse

横浜市横浜・川崎

Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Triennale

横浜市横浜・川崎

Japan's leading international contemporary exhibition, using docks and warehouses as its conditions, not just its rooms.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

BankART1929

横浜市横浜・川崎

Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Western Houses of Yamate

横浜市横浜・川崎

Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Silk Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Doll Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama History Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Taro Okamoto Museum of Art

川崎市横浜・川崎

In Taro Okamoto's home city, where his 30-metre Tower of Mother breaks out above the trees.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum

川崎市横浜・川崎

Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujiko F Fujio Museum

川崎市横浜・川崎

For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hiratsuka Museum of Art

平塚市鎌倉・湘南

Collects around a single theme - the light of this coast - and the artists who worked in it.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Chigasaki City Museum of Art

茅ヶ崎市鎌倉・湘南

A small museum in a pine grove, building the record of a town where writers and painters settled.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

Prints narrowed to three local subjects, so the changing way one place was seen can be followed.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yugyoji Treasure Hall

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Enoura Observatory

小田原市県西

Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Matsunaga Memorial Hall

小田原市県西

The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Odawara Lacquerware

小田原市県西

Turned bowls of Hakone timber finished so the grain still shows - lacquer that displays the wood, not itself.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Pola Museum of Art

箱根町県西

One of Japan's great Impressionist collections, with 80 percent of the building buried to spare the forest.