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群馬県 · Art & museums

Numata History Museum

沼田市北毛

On the Sanada castle town, built atop one of Japan's most pronounced river terraces.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon

渋川市北毛

A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Ikaho Stone Steps

渋川市北毛

A hot-spring town planned around a stairway, with the water distributed in conduits beneath the steps.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Yubatake of Kusatsu

草津町北毛

Wooden channels built to cool water too hot to bathe in became the centrepiece of the town.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Morinji and the Bunbuku Kettle

館林市東毛

The temple of the tanuki-turned-kettle folktale, its approach lined with badger statues.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Former Jomo Muslin Office

館林市東毛

A wool company's pseudo-Western office of 1910, a relic of Gunma's textile industry.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tsutsujigaoka Park

館林市東毛

Azaleas gathered and planted by a feudal lord four centuries ago, grown into a landscape.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Obata Historic Street

甘楽町西毛

A castle town where an irrigation channel runs in front of every house, water and street plan designed as one.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rock Forms of Shimonita

下仁田町西毛

Volcanic rock eroded into pinnacles, painted since the Edo period as a real-world landscape scroll.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Usui Pass Railway Structures

安中市西毛

The abandoned rack railway over the pass, its tunnels and bridges all in matching brick.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Maebashi Museum of Literature

前橋市中毛

On Sakutaro Hagiwara, who established free verse in colloquial Japanese; manuscripts shown with their book design.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Mt Akagi and Modern Painters

前橋市中毛

Its long gentle slopes appear again and again behind the paintings of Gunma's modern artists.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Saw-Tooth Roof Factories

桐生市東毛

Roofs shaped for even north light in weaving sheds, now reused as cafes and studios.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Roadside Deities of Minakami

みなかみ町北毛

Paired male-and-female stone deities stand at roadsides; the province is dense with them.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Stone Buddhas of Shibukawa

渋川市北毛

Buddhas cut into the rock at the foot of Mt Haruna, tracing a line of provincial stonemasons.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Burial Mounds of Gunma

高崎市西毛

A land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Silk Landscape of Kanra and Tomioka

富岡市西毛

Mulberry fields and heightened roofs - an industry that reshaped both land and houses.

群馬県 · Art & museums

River Terraces of Numata

沼田市北毛

River terraces stacked like steps, with the town on one of them - geology legible as a drawing.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takasaki Arts Theatre

高崎市西毛

A large theatre by the station, designed around acoustics as home to the Gunma Symphony.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Stone Walls of Kanayama Castle

太田市東毛

Few medieval castles in eastern Japan used this much stone; its walls and ponds are restored from excavation.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Jomo Karuta Cards

前橋市中毛

A postwar card game every local memorises; its 44 illustrated cards are effectively Gunma's tourist map.

群馬県 · Regional selections

Megumi-no-Yu Suna-shio Bath

西部エリア

A bathing house in Annaka, with a steam bath of sand and salt and herbal teas.

群馬県 · Regional selections

Usui Pass (Megane Bridge)

西部エリア

A brick arch bridge on the abandoned Shinetsu main line. Built in 1893, it has four spans.

群馬県 · Regional selections

Lockheart Castle

吾妻エリア

A castle in Takayama. A stone castle moved here from Britain, open inside.