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広島県 · Art & museums

Hiroshima MOCA

広島市安芸

Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hiroshima Museum of Art

広島市安芸

Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

広島市安芸

Kenzo Tange set it on axis with the Atomic Dome and lifted it on columns, so passing beneath frames the ruin ahead.

広島県 · Art & museums

Atomic Bomb Dome

広島市安芸

A Czech architect's exhibition hall, left as a steel skeleton beside the hypocentre and, after long argument, kept.

広島県 · Art & museums

Peace Memorial Park

広島市安芸

Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.

広島県 · Art & museums

Shukkeien

広島市安芸

A daimyo garden by a tea master, burned by the bomb and restored - one scorched ginkgo put out leaves and lived.

広島県 · Art & museums

World Peace Memorial Cathedral

広島市安芸

After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hiroshima Castle

広島市安芸

Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.

広島県 · Art & museums

Rai Sanyo Museum

広島市安芸

The study of the historian Rai Sanyo survived the bomb; his calligraphy and Chinese verse are kept here.

広島県 · Art & museums

Itsukushima Shrine

廿日市市安芸

Taira no Kiyomori built it on the sea itself; at high tide it floats, at low tide it stands on sand - two buildings in a day.

広島県 · Art & museums

Senjokaku

廿日市市安芸

Hideyoshi ordered it and died before it was finished; it stands to this day with neither walls nor ceiling.

広島県 · Art & museums

Daishoin

廿日市市安芸

The island's oldest temple, with an underground hall of 88 pilgrimage icons and a path lined with rakan figures.

広島県 · Art & museums

Miyajima Woodcraft

廿日市市安芸

Said to begin with rice paddles shaped after a goddess's lute; the trade covers both turning and carving.

広島県 · Art & museums

Onomichi City Museum of Art

尾道市備後

Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hillside Town of Onomichi

尾道市備後

Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.

広島県 · Art & museums

Jodoji

尾道市備後

Hall and pagoda both National Treasures, blending Japanese and Zen styles on the Onomichi slope.

広島県 · Art & museums

Fukuyama Museum of Art

福山市備後

Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.

広島県 · Art & museums

Tomonoura

福山市備後

The only port in Japan keeping all five kinds of Edo harbour works, saved from a bridge plan by residents' litigation.

広島県 · Art & museums

Myoo-in

福山市備後

Hall and pagoda both National Treasures; the pagoda was paid for by small public donations, and the record survives.

広島県 · Art & museums

Takehara Historic District

竹原市備後

A town rich on salt and sake, its houses each with a differently spaced lattice front.

広島県 · Art & museums

Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum

三次市備北

For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.

広島県 · Art & museums

Miyoshi Clay Dolls

三次市備北

Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.

広島県 · Art & museums

Saijo Sake Brewery Street

東広島市安芸

Seven breweries along one kilometre, their red tiles, white walls and brick chimneys repeating down the street.

広島県 · Art & museums

Yamato Museum

呉市安芸

On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.