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群馬県 · Shrines & temples

Ryukoji (Tomioka)

富岡市西毛

It holds the graves of the young women who died working at the Tomioka Silk Mill.

群馬県 · Shrines & temples

Kashozan

沼田市北毛

It displays the largest tengu mask in Japan. Worshippers borrow a tengu mask to carry a wish.

群馬県 · Shrines & temples

Morinji

館林市東毛

The temple of the Bunbuku Chagama legend. Tanuki figures line the approach.

群馬県 · Shrines & temples

Kumano Jinja (Usui)

安中市西毛

The prefectural border runs straight through the middle of the hall, and Gunma and Nagano each appoint their own priest.

群馬県 · Tourism

Tago-hi

高崎市西毛

The Tago stele, one of the three great ancient monuments of Japan. As part of the Kozuke Sanpi it is inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World regis…

群馬県 · Tourism

Tomioka Silk Mill

富岡市西毛

A government-run mechanised silk mill. The reeling plant and the cocoon warehouses are National Treasures.

群馬県 · Tourism

Yubatake

草津町北毛

The largest natural flow of hot spring water in Japan. Wooden troughs cool the water so the mineral flowers can be gathered.

群馬県 · Tourism

Ikaho Stone Steps

渋川市北毛

Three hundred and sixty-five stone steps. A town that grew out of a design for dividing the hot water evenly.

群馬県 · Tourism

Oze

片品村北毛

The largest highland marsh on Honshu. You may not step off the boardwalk.

群馬県 · Tourism

Fukiware Falls

沼田市北毛

The water is drawn down into a split in the bedrock. The Niagara of the East.

群馬県 · Tourism

Minakami

みなかみ町北毛

The headwaters of the Tone river. A base for rafting and for climbing.

群馬県 · Tourism

Manza Onsen

嬬恋村北毛

At 1,800 metres. Its hydrogen sulphide content is among the highest in Japan.

群馬県 · Tourism

Takasaki Daruma

高崎市西毛

Eight in ten daruma made in Japan come from here. The eyebrows are cranes, the moustache a tortoise.

群馬県 · Tourism

Shima Onsen

中之条町北毛

The name says it cures forty thousand ailments. The original bathhouse at Sekizenkan is among the oldest hot-spring inn buildings in Japan.

群馬県 · Tourism

Kiryu Textile

桐生市東毛

Nishijin in the west, Kiryu in the east. Saw-tooth roofed mills still stand.

群馬県 · Tourism

Usui Meganebashi

安中市西毛

A brick arch bridge of four spans. You can walk the disused railway across it.

群馬県 · Tourism

Shimonita Konnyaku

下仁田町西毛

A tuber that grows even on poor ground. Production accounts for 90 percent of the national total.

群馬県 · Tourism

Oigami Morning Market

沼田市北毛

A spring with a legend of the deity of Akagi. A morning market is held here.

群馬県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

高崎市西毛

Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

館林市東毛

Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki City Art Museum

高崎市西毛

In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tomioka Silk Mill

富岡市西毛

A state silk mill of timber frames filled with brick; its 140-metre column-free reeling hall is a National Treasure.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Gunma Prefectural Museum of History

高崎市西毛

Gunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Arts Maebashi

前橋市中毛

A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.