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茨城県 · Art & museums

Kasama Ware

笠間市県央

A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Shumpu Banriso

笠間市県央

Rosanjin's own house, moved from Kamakura - the garden and tea room shaped by a potter's eye.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kasama Inari Museum

笠間市県央

A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kodokan

水戸市県央

The largest domain school in Japan, where scholarship and martial training shared one campus.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kairakuen and Kobuntei

水戸市県央

One of Japan's three great gardens; the lord designed the pavilion himself, naming each room for its painted plants.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History

水戸市県央

A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tokugawa Museum

水戸市県央

The Mito Tokugawa collection, including the sword Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, shown still scarred by the 1923 fire.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kashima Jingu Treasure Hall

鹿嶋市鹿行

A 2.7-metre straight sword of the Nara period - among the largest surviving Japanese blades.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Koga Museum of History

古河市県西

An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Museum of Tenkoku Seal Carving

古河市県西

Japan's only museum of seal carving - an art that sits between calligraphy and sculpture.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Koga Kubo Park and Takami Senseki Memorial

古河市県西

The samurai house where the Dutch-studies scholar Takami Senseki spent his last years.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Itaya Hazan Memorial Museum

筑西市県西

The birthplace of the first potter to receive Japan's Order of Culture, known for his veiled hoko glaze.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Shimodate Museum of Art

筑西市県西

Centred on Shigeru Morita, who painted the black lion dance again and again.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Yuki Tsumugi

結城市県西

Silk floss drawn into thread by hand without twisting, then woven on a back-strap loom; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tsumugi no Yakata

結城市県西

In a merchant's storehouse, showing every stage from silk floss to finished cloth.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Makabe Historic District

桜川市県西

Some 300 registered historic buildings in one small town, layered from the Edo period to the 20th century.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Makabe Stone Lanterns

桜川市県西

Lanterns cut from Tsukuba granite by a town of stonemasons working since the Edo period.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Ushiku Daibutsu

牛久市県南

Among the tallest bronze statues on earth - the Nara Great Buddha would fit in its palm.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Chateau Kamiya

牛久市県南

Japan's first true winery; three brick buildings in French style, designated Important Cultural Properties.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Hitachi Station

日立市県北

Kazuyo Sejima's all-glass concourse frames the Pacific like a picture; an internationally awarded station.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Hitachi City Museum

日立市県北

The record of a mining and electrical town, including the 156-metre chimney once the world's tallest.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tsuchiura City Museum

土浦市県南

Swords of the Tsuchiya lords, shown beside the fishing gear of Lake Kasumigaura.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride

取手市県南

A campus of Tokyo's art university, whose community art project has run for over 30 years.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kengo Kuma Buildings in Sakai

境町県西

A town of 20,000 commissioned several public buildings from Kengo Kuma, all clad in layered cedar.