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神奈川県 · Tourism

Keihin Industrial Zone

川崎市横浜・川崎

The lights of the petrochemical plants. Cruises run to see the factory night view.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

葉山町鎌倉・湘南

Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

MOMAT Kamakura Annex

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura Museum

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura Museum of National Treasures

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Engakuji Shariden

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Rafters radiating like a fan and densely packed brackets - the perfected form of Zen-style architecture from China.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kenchoji

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Japan's first purpose-built Zen monastery, its halls still ranged on the single Chinese axis.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Great Buddha of Kamakura

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

An 11-metre bronze Buddha that lost its hall to a tsunami; sitting in the open, its casting seams are visible inside and out.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kaburaki Kiyokata Memorial Art Museum

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

On the site of the home of Kiyokata, the last great painter of bijinga, who drew the ordinary streets of Meiji Tokyo.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kamakura-bori Lacquer Carving

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Museum of Art

横浜市横浜・川崎

Among the first Japanese museums to collect photography seriously, and the symmetrical anchor of the Minato Mirai axis.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

横浜市横浜・川崎

Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall

横浜市横浜・川崎

One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Sankeien

横浜市横浜・川崎

A silk merchant moved seventeen historic buildings here from Kyoto and elsewhere, re-siting each to suit the new terrain.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse

横浜市横浜・川崎

Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Triennale

横浜市横浜・川崎

Japan's leading international contemporary exhibition, using docks and warehouses as its conditions, not just its rooms.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

BankART1929

横浜市横浜・川崎

Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Western Houses of Yamate

横浜市横浜・川崎

Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Silk Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama Doll Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokohama History Museum

横浜市横浜・川崎

Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Taro Okamoto Museum of Art

川崎市横浜・川崎

In Taro Okamoto's home city, where his 30-metre Tower of Mother breaks out above the trees.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum

川崎市横浜・川崎

Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.