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福井県 · Art & museums

Asuwayama Burial Mounds

福井市嶺北

Coffins hollowed from local stone show it was being worked as far back as the fifth century.

福井県 · Art & museums

Textile Mills of Katsuyama

勝山市嶺北

A habutae silk town whose brick and saw-tooth mills survive, some converted into exhibition space.

福井県 · Art & museums

Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum

敦賀市嶺南

The port where refugees on Sugihara's visas came ashore, rebuilt around photographs and testimony.

福井県 · Art & museums

Lake Mikata and the Varves

若狭町嶺南

Seventy thousand annual layers on the lake bed became the world standard for dating - stripes laid down by nature, displayed as such.

福井県 · Art & museums

Daffodil Terraces of the Echizen Coast

越前町嶺北

Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea, banded white with daffodils each winter.

福井県 · Art & museums

Kanegasaki

敦賀市嶺南

A cliff-top fortress over the bay, fought for again and again as the link between the northern sea and Kyoto.

福井県 · Art & museums

Wakasa Kokubunji

小浜市嶺南

One of the provincial temples founded by the state; its foundation stones still map the scale of the compound.

福井県 · Art & museums

Shichiken Morning Market, Ono

大野市嶺北

A market held on the same street since the 1580s, the goods still laid straight on the ground.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fishing Hamlets of the Echizen Coast

越前町嶺北

Houses stacked in the narrow gap between cliff and sea, boat sheds lining the water's edge.

福井県 · Art & museums

Awara Onsen

あわら市嶺北

A Meiji spa town whose large wooden inns still use Echizen lacquer and paper inside.

福井県 · Art & museums

Murasaki Shikibu Park

越前市嶺北

Murasaki Shikibu spent a year here with her father; the park rebuilds a Heian villa garden around that fact.

福井県 · Art & museums

Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama

勝山市嶺北

Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.

福井県 · Art & museums

Obama Food Culture Museum

小浜市嶺南

On the province that supplied the imperial table, with a workshop where visitors grind their own lacquer chopsticks.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art

甲府市国中

Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum

笛吹市国中

Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum

北杜市国中

The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Nakamura Keith Haring Collection

北杜市国中

The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kiyoharu Art Colony

北杜市国中

On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Itchiku Kubota Art Museum

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

A dyer who reinvented the lost Muromachi tsujigahana technique; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yo Yuki Museum

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchiko Museum of Art

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Mt Fuji World Heritage Center

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koshu Inden Deerskin

甲府市国中

Lacquer patterned onto deerskin, and a smoke-dyeing method kept as oral secret for four centuries.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koshu Crystal Carving

甲府市国中

Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.