茨城県 · Shrines & temples
Benkei Nanamodori
つくば市 県南
You duck beneath a boulder that looks about to fall. Benkei is said to have turned back seven times.
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茨城県 · Shrines & temples
Oiwa Jinja
日立市 県北
It enshrines 188 deities, and is known for an astronaut's account of seeing a pillar of light here.
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Sojagu (Ishioka)
石岡市 県央
It enshrines the deities of Hitachi Province together. The Ishioka festival fills the town.
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Kobuntei
水戸市 県央
A garden open to the people of the domain from the day it was made. Hence the name: pleasure shared.
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Seizanso
常陸太田市 県北
Where Tokugawa Mitsukuni spent his last years and carried on compiling the Dai Nihonshi.
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Ryujin
常陸太田市 県北
The name Ryujin Gorge comes from belief in a dragon that governs water.
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Kairakuen
水戸市 県央
One of the three great gardens of Japan. It was open to the people of the domain from the start.
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Hitachi Seaside Park
ひたちなか市 県北
Four and a half million nemophila turn Miharashi Hill blue.
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Fukuroda Falls
大子町 県北
One of the three great waterfalls of Japan. It falls in four stages, hence its other name.
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Ushiku Chateau
牛久市 県南
Japan's first full-scale winery.
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Kodokan
水戸市 県央
The largest domain school in Japan, teaching letters, arms and medicine as one.
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Oarai
大洗町 県北
Anglerfish hotpot and whitebait. The port runs on into the seaside park.
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Himatsuri
笠間市 県央
Kasama potters set up their own stalls. One of the largest pottery markets in eastern Japan.
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JAXA Tsukuba
つくば市 県南
A full-size H-II rocket lies outdoors.
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Yuki Tsumugi
結城市 県西
It uses hand-spun thread. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Itako Ayame
潮来市 鹿行
A bridal boat moves along the waterway. Five hundred varieties of iris bloom.
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Hitachi Furyumono
日立市 県北
Five-storey floats stage mechanical puppet plays. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Koga Peach
古河市 県西
Two thousand flowering peach trees. They were first planted as a guard against famine.
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Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
水戸市 県央
On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.
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Art Tower Mito
水戸市 県央
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
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Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
北茨城市 県北
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
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Rokkakudo
北茨城市 県北
Okakura Tenshin's own vermilion pavilion on a sea rock, swept away by the tsunami and rebuilt from analysis of its timbers.
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Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
笠間市 県央
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
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Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
笠間市 県央
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.
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