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香川県 · Art & museums

Naoshima Bath I Love Yu

直島町東讃

A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima Art Museum

土庄町東讃

A columnless concrete shell shaped like a water drop; water seeps from the floor and moves through the day - work and building indistinguishable.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima Yokoo House

土庄町東讃

An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.

香川県 · Art & museums

Setouchi Triennale

高松市高松

An international exhibition across twelve islands, begun as an attempt to bring people back to depopulated and polluted places.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kagawa Museum

高松市高松

History and art in one institution, built around calligraphy and Buddhist art in the province that produced Kukai.

香川県 · Art & museums

Takamatsu Art Museum

高松市高松

Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.

香川県 · Art & museums

Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

高松市高松

Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.

香川県 · Art & museums

Ritsurin Garden

高松市高松

It takes the mountain behind it into the garden; its pines have been shaped by hand, tree by tree, for three centuries.

香川県 · Art & museums

Takamatsu Castle

高松市高松

Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.

香川県 · Art & museums

Shikoku Mura

高松市高松

Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Folk Craft Museum

高松市高松

Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.

香川県 · Art & museums

Aji Granite

高松市高松

Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Lacquer Art

高松市高松

Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Temari Balls

高松市高松

Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.

香川県 · Art & museums

MIMOCA

丸亀市中讃

Twenty seconds from the station: a white Taniguchi box with the artist's own mural hung across its face.

香川県 · Art & museums

Marugame Castle

丸亀市中讃

The smallest of Japan's surviving keeps on its tallest stone walls - four tiers curving up like an opened fan.

香川県 · Art & museums

Marugame Fans

丸亀市中讃

Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.

香川県 · Art & museums

Nakazu Banshoen

丸亀市中讃

A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kotohiragu

琴平町中讃

Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main hall, and rooms painted by Maruyama Okyo at the top of them.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kanamaruza Theatre

琴平町中讃

Japan's oldest surviving playhouse; its revolve and traps are still turned by men working under the stage.

香川県 · Art & museums

Zentsuji

善通寺市中讃

Built where Kukai was born, its 45-metre pagoda standing over two separate precincts.

香川県 · Art & museums

Zenigata Sand Coin

観音寺市西讃

A giant coin dug into the beach and re-cut by the whole town twice a year - which is why it has held its shape for four centuries.

香川県 · Art & museums

Chichibugahama Beach

三豊市西讃

Tide pools left on the flats mirror the sky; a beach that photography discovered and turned into a destination.

香川県 · Art & museums

Hiketa District

東かがわ市東讃

A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.