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兵庫県 · Art & museums

Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.

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Kobe City Museum

神戸市阪神・神戸

In a neoclassical former bank, holding National Treasure bronze bells and a major group of paintings of Japan's first contact with the West.

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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum

神戸市阪神・神戸

Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.

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Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum

神戸市阪神・神戸

A sake brewer's collection of Asian antiquities, with a separate wing of Persian carpets.

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Kosetsu Museum of Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.

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Koiso Memorial Museum of Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.

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Kobe Fashion Museum

神戸市阪神・神戸

Japan's first public museum of dress, tracing court costume through to modern haute couture.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Kitano Foreign Residences

神戸市阪神・神戸

Houses built by foreign residents after the port opened - German, English and colonial styles mixed along one hill.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Rokko Meets Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

Art placed across a mountain's tourist sites, so the view and the work share one field, and the climb is the route.

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Sake Breweries of Nada

神戸市阪神・神戸

Japan's greatest sake district; the wooden brewhouses that survived the earthquake are now open as museums.

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Himeji Castle

姫路市播磨

Japan's first World Heritage castle: walls and even tile joints sealed in white plaster, the great keep flanked by three lesser ones.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Himeji City Museum of Art

姫路市播磨

An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.

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Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History

姫路市播磨

Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Engyoji

姫路市播磨

A hall on stilts against the mountainside, and three more set in a U - an unexpected order deep in the forest.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo

丹波篠山市但馬

In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Tamba Ware

丹波篠山市但馬

One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Sasayama Historic District

丹波篠山市但馬

A castle town with two preservation districts, one merchant and one samurai, its shops presenting gable ends to the street.

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Otani Memorial Art Museum

西宮市阪神・神戸

Its annual exhibition of international picture-book illustration has made it Japan's centre for that field.

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Hakushika Sake Museum

西宮市阪神・神戸

An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.

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Ashiya City Museum of Art and History

芦屋市阪神・神戸

The Gutai group began in this town; the museum holds the fullest local record of a movement that made throwing paint the work.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Yodoko Guest House

芦屋市阪神・神戸

One of only four Wright buildings left in Japan and the only house, its Oya stone carved in continuous geometric bands.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum

宝塚市阪神・神戸

Tezuka grew up in this town; his corrected and redrawn pages show how volume and handwork were held together.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Itami City Museum of Art

伊丹市阪神・神戸

Collects prints that criticise society, with an unusual concentration of Daumier lithographs.

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Kakimori Bunko

伊丹市阪神・神戸

One of Japan's great haiku archives, holding autograph works by Basho, Buson and Issa.