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福岡県 · Art & museums

ACROS Fukuoka

福岡市福岡

Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Nexus World

福岡市福岡

Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Shikanoshima

福岡市福岡

Where the gold seal was found; a tied island whose very geography explains the ancient sea routes.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Bentwood Ware

福岡市福岡

Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Tsuyazaki Dolls

福津市宗像・糟屋

Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Miyajidake Shrine

福津市宗像・糟屋

Twice a year the setting sun lines up exactly with the approach, laying a band of light to the sea.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Canal City Hakata

福岡市福岡

A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Machiya Folk Museum

福岡市福岡

A relocated Meiji weaver's house, with hand-weaving and top-spinning demonstrated inside it.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Ohori Park

福岡市福岡

A castle moat turned park, modelled on West Lake in China, crossed by islands and bridges.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Castle Ruins

福岡市福岡

Whether it ever had a keep is still argued; the scale of the walls shows it was among Kyushu's largest fortresses.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Former Mitsui Club, Moji

北九州市北九州

A trading company's club in half-timbered style, keeping the room where Einstein stayed exactly as it was.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Spinning Tops

福岡市福岡

Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Okawa Furniture

大川市筑後

Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Ukiha White Walls

うきは市筑後

Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, with water channels running through it.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Rural Stages of Chikugo

八女市筑後

Stages villages built for themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the audience.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Nogata Coal Museum

直方市北九州

At the heart of the Chikuho coalfield, keeping a mock tunnel built for rescue training.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Studios of Itoshima

糸島市福岡

Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Weaving Workshops

福岡市福岡

Six thousand warp threads to a single sash; the density decides both the sound and the grip, so one hand oversees it all.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum

佐賀市佐賀

An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Kyushu Ceramic Museum

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Porcelain

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Izumiyama Quarry

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Four centuries of digging removed an entire mountain; the white cliff left behind records what the industry did to the land.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Uchiyama District

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Tozan Shrine

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.