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愛知県 · Art & museums

Setogura Museum

瀬戸市尾張

A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Maneki-neko Museum

瀬戸市尾張

Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Ware

常滑市西三河

The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Pottery Walk

常滑市西三河

A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.

愛知県 · Art & museums

INAX Live Museum

常滑市西三河

Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Meiji Mura

犬山市尾張

Sixty-seven Meiji buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here, including the entrance of Wright's Imperial Hotel.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Inuyama Castle

犬山市尾張

A National Treasure keep, small but placed on a cliff above the river - the siting is the castle's whole argument.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Joan Tea House

犬山市尾張

Built by Nobunaga's brother and one of only three tea houses designated National Treasure, lit through a screen of split bamboo.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Inuyama Festival Floats

犬山市尾張

Three-tiered floats with clockwork puppets performing on top, each hung with 365 lanterns after dark.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

豊田市西三河

Held to be Yoshio Taniguchi's finest work: white volumes over water and lawn, the route framing view after view.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Migishi Setsuko Memorial Museum

一宮市尾張

For a painter who kept working in an era that gave women little room, on the site of the house where she was born.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Bishu Wool Textiles

一宮市尾張

Most of Japan's woollen cloth is woven here; the district supplies luxury suiting worldwide alongside Italy.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Fujii Tatsukichi Museum of Modern Art

碧南市西三河

For an artist who moved freely between craft and painting; small, but nationally respected for its exhibitions.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Takahama Kawara Museum

高浜市西三河

Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tahara City Museum

田原市東三河

The largest holding of Watanabe Kazan, the samurai painter who brought Western shading into Japanese portraiture.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History

豊橋市東三河

In the old castle park, holding work by Nakamura Fusetsu, who was both calligrapher and oil painter.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Handa Red Brick Building

半田市西三河

Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Kamezaki Festival Floats

半田市西三河

Floats hauled down onto the beach itself, their carvings and embroidered hangings standing on the sand.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Niimi Nankichi Memorial Museum

半田市西三河

A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Mikawa Buddhist Altars

岡崎市西三河

Built inside like a miniature temple, finished by five separate trades working in sequence.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Hatcho Miso Breweries

岡崎市西三河

Three tonnes of river stones stacked into a cone on each two-metre vat, a two-year process that fills the warehouse.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Noritake Garden

名古屋市尾張

A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyota Commemorative Museum

名古屋市尾張

In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Aichi Triennale

名古屋市尾張

One of Japan's largest international art festivals, running through shopping streets and warehouses alongside a performing arts programme.