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静岡県 · Art & museums

Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka

富士宮市東部

An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha

富士宮市東部

A two-storey sanctuary in a form found nowhere else, beside the spring where the pilgrim route to the summit begins.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shiseido Art House

掛川市西部

A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kakegawa Castle

掛川市西部

The first castle keep rebuilt in real timber after the war, beside one of only seven surviving castle palaces.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art

浜松市西部

In the castle park, with prints and maps of the Tokaido highway through this town.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments

浜松市西部

Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Akino Fuku Museum

浜松市西部

For a Nihonga painter who kept returning to India; Fujimori built it of earth and paper, and visitors walk it barefoot.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Ryotanji

浜松市西部

The Ii family temple, its pond garden laid out to be seen seated from the study, with the hill behind as backdrop.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Enshu Textiles

浜松市西部

One of Japan's three great cotton districts, where mills deliberately keep old shuttle looms to weave a slower, thicker cloth.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival

浜松市西部

A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces

伊豆の国市伊豆

The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Egawa Residence

伊豆の国市伊豆

The house of a hereditary magistrate, its great diagonal roof frame left open above the earthen floor.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shitoro Ware

島田市中部

One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Horai Bridge

島田市中部

The world's longest wooden footbridge, built to open tea fields and still re-planked and in use.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Tea Fields of Makinohara

牧之原市中部

Tea fields opened by samurai who gave up their swords; rows follow the contours, and frost fans stand like a forest.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shuzenji

伊豆市伊豆

Temple and hot spring face each other across the river, linked by a bamboo path along the bank.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Numazu Imperial Villa Park

沼津市東部

An imperial rest villa in timber, every room arranged to look through the pines to the bay.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Springs of Mishima

三島市伊豆

Fuji's groundwater runs through the town centre, with stepping stones laid so people walk in the river itself.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Atami Plum Garden and Villas

熱海市伊豆

A spa town of Meiji villas scattered on the slopes, each composed around its view of the sea.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shimizu Port

静岡市中部

A port built on the tea export trade, its timber and brick warehouses still shaping the waterfront.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Miho no Matsubara

静岡市中部

Fuji seen through a pine wood - a composition painted from Sesshu to Hiroshige, and now World Heritage.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Oi River Crossing

島田市中部

A river the shogunate forbade to be bridged; the offices that organised the human porters have been rebuilt.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Hamamatsu Castle

浜松市西部

Walls of barely worked natural stone remain from the castle where Ieyasu spent seventeen years.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kakegawa Kuzufu Cloth

掛川市西部

Fibre fermented out of kudzu vine and woven into a silk-like cloth, once used for sliding doors and wall covering.