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群馬県 · Art & museums

Shiroiya Hotel

前橋市中毛

Sou Fujimoto gutted a 300-year-old inn into a vertical void, with contemporary artworks built into the fabric.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rinkokaku

前橋市中毛

A guest house built by public subscription, its 150-mat hall spanned without dividing columns.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Okawa Museum of Art

桐生市東毛

The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Textiles

桐生市東毛

Ranked with Nishijin as Japan's other great weaving city; seven of its techniques are designated together.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Shinmachi Historic District

桐生市東毛

Saw-toothed weaving sheds, built for north light, stand mixed among the townhouses.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Yurinkan

桐生市東毛

Eleven Edo-to-Taisho storehouses turned into venues, their darkness and echo now part of the programme.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Kiryu Textile Memorial Hall

桐生市東毛

The 1934 weavers' guild office, faced in scratch tile and now a registered cultural property.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Ota City Museum and Library

太田市東毛

Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Hara Museum ARC

渋川市北毛

Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Nakanojo Biennale

中之条町北毛

A biennial in a town of 15,000, staged in closed schools and empty houses and run by residents.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Sekizenkan

中之条町北毛

Among Japan's oldest surviving hot-spring inn buildings, its 1691 wing and red arched bridge still in use.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan

高崎市西毛

Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Senshintei, Bruno Taut's House

高崎市西毛

The hut where the exiled Bruno Taut lived and wrote on Katsura, changing how Japanese architecture was judged.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Byakue Daikannon

高崎市西毛

The tallest Kannon in the world when built in 1936, of reinforced concrete, climbable to nine storeys.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Carvings of Haruna Shrine

高崎市西毛

Halls built against a giant rock, covered in the polychrome carving of the province's shrine sculptors.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Nukisaki Shrine

富岡市西毛

Worshippers descend to reach the sanctuary - a rare inversion - past halls lacquered and painted for Iemitsu.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Myogi Shrine

富岡市西毛

Backed by the jagged Myogi peaks, its black-lacquered halls carry a density of gilt carving close to Nikko's.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rakusanen

甘楽町西毛

Gunma's only surviving daimyo garden, its composition built openly around the borrowed mountains behind.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Usui Third Bridge

安中市西毛

Two million bricks in four arches, 31 metres high - Japan's largest brick bridge.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Arafune Cold Storage and Tajima Yahei House

下仁田町西毛

Silkworm eggs stored in natural rock cold air, and the ventilated farmhouse that standardised sericulture.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takayama-sha Sericulture School

藤岡市西毛

The school that taught the ventilation-and-heat method of silkworm rearing to all Japan.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tomihiro Art Museum

みどり市東毛

For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Iwajuku Site

みどり市東毛

Where a self-taught pedlar found the stone tools that proved Japan had a Palaeolithic age.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Isesaki Kasuri

伊勢崎市東毛

Threads tied and dyed before weaving; as meisen it clothed a generation of Japanese women.