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神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hakone Open-Air Museum

箱根町県西

Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Okada Museum of Art

箱根町県西

Holds Utamaro's Deep Snow at Fukagawa, lost for seventy years, in one of Japan's largest private museums.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Lalique Museum Hakone

箱根町県西

An actual Orient Express carriage with Lalique's glass panels, entered rather than viewed through a case.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Narukawa Art Museum

箱根町県西

Four thousand works of contemporary Nihonga, and a window framing Mt Fuji across the lake by design.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hakone Marquetry

箱根町県西

Geometric patterns built from blocks of differently coloured woods and shaved into veneer - no dye is ever used.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Honma Yosegi Museum

箱根町県西

Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujiya Hotel

箱根町県西

One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Nakagawa Kazumasa Museum

真鶴町県西

For a painter who returned to the same harbour and mountain for decades, working in oils, calligraphy and clay.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokosuka Museum of Art

横須賀市鎌倉・湘南

A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall

葉山町鎌倉・湘南

The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Sawada Miki Memorial Museum

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Villas of Oiso

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Enoshima Caves

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Zou-no-hana Terrace

横浜市横浜・川崎

A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Kaigan Church

横浜市横浜・川崎

Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kawasaki Daishi

川崎市横浜・川崎

Among Japan's most visited temples, with a rare octagonal pagoda and an approach ringing with candy-cutters' knives.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Sagamihara City Museum

相模原市県央

Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Atsugi Museum

厚木市県央

On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hakone Checkpoint and Stone Road

箱根町県西

A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Miura

三浦市鎌倉・湘南

Fishing hamlets pressed against wave-cut rock platforms - terrain and livelihood in direct contact.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature

横浜市横浜・川崎

A literature archive rich in book design and illustration - as much about the made book as the text.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Odawara Castle

小田原市県西

Nine kilometres of earthworks once enclosed the entire town - the scale of a medieval fortress, still walkable.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

長岡市中越

Unusual among prefectural museums for its Western modern holdings, shared with its sister museum in Niigata city.