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埼玉県 · Art & museums

Iwatsuki Doll Museum

さいたま市県央

Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore

さいたま市県央

A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Saitama International Art Festival

さいたま市県央

A triennial staged in empty buildings and shopping streets, run with residents on the team.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawagoe Kurazukuri Street

川越市西部

Edo's merchant architecture is almost gone in Tokyo; here a street of black-plastered shop-storehouses survives.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Toki no Kane Bell Tower

川越市西部

A wooden bell tower rebuilt four times since the 1600s, still ringing four times a day.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kitain

川越市西部

Buildings moved here from Edo Castle, and 538 stone rakan figures, no two with the same face.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawagoe City Art Museum

川越市西部

Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum

蕨市県央

A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Toyama Memorial Museum

川島町県央

A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels

東松山市県央

A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Menuma Shodenzan

熊谷市県北

Called the Nikko of Saitama; its carved and repainted main hall is a National Treasure.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Sakitama Burial Mounds

行田市県北

A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Tabi Storehouses of Gyoda

行田市県北

A town that once made 80 percent of Japan's tabi socks; over 80 of its storehouses survive.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu Meisen

秩父市秩父

Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Carvings of Chichibu Shrine

秩父市秩父

Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu Night Festival Floats

秩父市秩父

Ten-tonne floats hauled up a steep slope; their carvings and hangings are craft objects in motion.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kadokawa Culture Museum

所沢市西部

Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Seishido and Seifutei

深谷市県北

Built for Shibusawa Eiichi's 77th birthday in local brick, its interior threaded with Asian motifs.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Fukaya Station

深谷市県北

The town that supplied Tokyo Station's bricks rebuilt its own station in Tokyo Station's image.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper

小川町西部

Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Higashichichibu Washi Village

東秩父村秩父

Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchi Ironware

川口市東部

Casting everything from Toshogu lanterns to cooking pots; its forest of cupola furnaces became a film subject.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchi Art Gallery Atlia

川口市東部

Exhibition and studio under one roof, giving the old foundry town a contemporary art base.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

SKIP City Visual Museum

川口市東部

A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.