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京都府 · Art & museums

Sumiya Museum

京都市京都市内

The only surviving ageya of the Shimabara quarter, with a ceiling papered in fans and a room inlaid with shell.

京都府 · Art & museums

Gion Festival Floats

京都市京都市内

Called a moving museum: Persian and Flemish textiles imported in the 1500s still hang on the floats every July.

京都府 · Art & museums

Garden of Fine Arts Kyoto

京都市京都市内

Masterpieces fired onto ceramic panels and set outdoors; Ando's ramps make you look down on some and up at others.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Station Building

京都市京都市内

A vast glass structure dropped into a historic city, with a 171-metre atrium and a stair climbing to the roof - fiercely contested when built.

京都府 · Art & museums

TIME'S

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Ando dropped the floor to the level of the canal so people can touch the water - a small building that changed a city's relation to its river.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Art Center

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A 1931 elementary school turned over to artists; the classrooms are the studios.

京都府 · Art & museums

Funaya Boat Houses of Ine

伊根町丹後

Ground floors open straight onto the sea so boats drive into the house; 230 of them ring the bay.

京都府 · Art & museums

Amanohashidate

宮津市丹後

One of Japan's three great views, with a prescribed way of looking at it - bent over, upside down, between your own legs.

京都府 · Art & museums

Tango Chirimen Silk Crepe

与謝野町丹後

Silk hard-twisted then shrunk in hot water to raise its crinkled surface; most of Japan's undyed kimono cloth is woven here.

京都府 · Art & museums

Miyama Thatched Village

南丹市丹波・中丹

Most of the village is still thatched, and the rethatching is still done by the villagers together.

京都府 · Art & museums

Maizuru Red Brick Park

舞鶴市丹波・中丹

Twelve naval warehouses surviving together - a military complex preserved as an ensemble of brickwork.

京都府 · Art & museums

Tea Fields of Uji

宇治市山城

Fields shaded with reed screens and straw before harvest to sweeten the leaf - the covers themselves a seasonal sight.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Dolls and Joinery

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Head, hair, limbs and costume are each made by a different specialist - the division of labour on which nearly all Kyoto craft runs.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Buddhist Implements

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With every sect's head temple in one city, demand never stopped; more than ten trades touch a single altar.

京都府 · Art & museums

Dry Gardens of Kyoto

京都市京都市内

The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

大阪市大阪市

On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

大阪市大阪市

Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.

大阪府 · Art & museums

National Museum of Art, Osaka

大阪市大阪市

Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

大阪市大阪市

Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Fujita Museum

大阪市大阪市

Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Yuki Museum of Art

大阪市大阪市

Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Museum of History

大阪市大阪市

Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Museum of Housing and Living

大阪市大阪市

A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Castle

大阪市大阪市

Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.