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新潟県 · Art & museums

Mokujiki Buddhas

柏崎市中越

Rough-hewn smiling Buddhas by the wandering monk Mokujiki, rediscovered by Soetsu Yanagi.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Teradomari

長岡市中越

A port of call for the Kitamae trading ships, keeping its highway townhouses and its beachfront market.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design

富山市呉東

Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga

富山市呉東

A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Glass Art Museum

富山市呉東

Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Glass Studio

富山市呉東

Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.

富山県 · Art & museums

Sato Memorial Museum of Art

富山市呉東

Inside the castle park, built around a businessman's gift of tea utensils and Asian antiquities.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Folkcraft Village

富山市呉東

Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.

富山県 · Art & museums

Iwase District and Mori House

富山市呉東

A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.

富山県 · Art & museums

Owara Kaze no Bon

富山市呉東

Dancers hide their faces under deep sedge hats and move through a hillside town all night - dance and streets inseparable.

富山県 · Art & museums

Etchu Washi

富山市呉東

Three papermaking districts designated together; at Yatsuo the paper itself is stencil-dyed.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Art Museum

高岡市呉西

Collecting around metalwork, as befits a casting town - and working the border between craft and sculpture.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Bronze Casting

高岡市呉西

Ninety percent of Japan's bronzeware; begun when the Kaga domain summoned seven casters, now casting contemporary design.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Lacquerware

高岡市呉西

Known for aogai - shell shaved paper-thin and inlaid, shifting through the spectrum as the light moves.

富山県 · Art & museums

Zuiryuji

高岡市呉西

Gate, Buddha hall and lecture hall stand on one axis - and all three are National Treasures, a combination unique in Japan.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shokoji

高岡市呉西

Once the stronghold of the Etchu Ikko uprising; twenty-three buildings survive, two of them National Treasures since 2022.

富山県 · Art & museums

Kanayamachi District

高岡市呉西

The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.

富山県 · Art & museums

Yamachosuji District

高岡市呉西

Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Mikurumayama Festival

高岡市呉西

Floats that gather the town's metalwork, lacquer and textiles into single objects; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

富山県 · Art & museums

Etchu Fukuoka Sedge Hats

高岡市呉西

Most of Japan's sedge hats are made here, from growing the sedge to the final stitch.

富山県 · Art & museums

Inami Woodcarving

南砺市呉西

Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.

富山県 · Art & museums

Zuisenji

南砺市呉西

The temple that gave birth to Inami carving; local carvers have worked on its gate for generations.

富山県 · Art & museums

Gokayama Gassho Villages

南砺市呉西

Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.

富山県 · Art & museums

Johana Float Festival

南砺市呉西

Lacquered and carved floats followed by small music pavilions; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.