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兵庫県 · Art & museums

Izushi Town and Ware

豊岡市但馬

A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Kinosaki Onsen

豊岡市但馬

Inns were kept small and baths kept public, so the street works as the corridor of one large shared building.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Toyooka Willow Craft

豊岡市但馬

A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Takeda Castle Ruins

朝来市但馬

Only the stonework survives on a 353-metre summit - the outline of a castle drawn in stone along a ridge.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Ikuno Silver Mine

朝来市但馬

A state mine where French engineers installed modern plant; the tunnels and their Western-style housing remain.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Awaji Puppet Theatre

南あわじ市淡路

Puppets larger than Bunraku's, built for outdoor stages, with mechanisms in the head that change the face.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Awaji Roof Tiles

南あわじ市淡路

Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Water Temple, Honpukuji

淡路市淡路

Stairs descend through the middle of a lotus pond into a hall beneath the water, its vermilion interior filled by the setting sun.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Awaji Yumebutai

淡路市淡路

Built where a hill was quarried away for landfill: a hundred stepped flower beds attempting to remake the destroyed terrain.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Kakurinji

加古川市播磨

Two National Treasure halls; infrared revealed Heian wall paintings still surviving inside the smaller one.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Miki Hardware

三木市播磨

Smiths gathered to rebuild a castle and stayed; the town became Japan's main source of chisels and planes.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Banshu Textiles

西脇市播磨

Yarn dyed before weaving, so the colour holds; most of Japan's yarn-dyed cotton comes from this valley.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Banshu Abacus

小野市播磨

Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Tatsuno Soy Sauce Town

たつの市播磨

Where light soy sauce was invented; white-walled brewhouses line the river and make the town's face.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Ako Rug

赤穂市播磨

Begun by one self-taught woman; cotton woven then clipped with shears so the pattern stands in relief.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Salt Fields of Ako

赤穂市播磨

Tidal salt fields once covered this coast; their divisions still show in how the land is parcelled.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Akashi City Museum of Culture

明石市播磨

In the town the standard meridian runs through, on its long role as a crossing point of the inland sea.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Port Architecture of Kobe

神戸市阪神・神戸

The old foreign settlement keeps its office blocks, most now reinforced after the earthquake but outwardly unchanged.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Thatched Houses of Tajima and Tamba

豊岡市但馬

Farmhouses whose roofs were raised for silkworms; snow load and the worms' temperature together set the shape.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Leather of Himeji

姫路市播磨

Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Former Spinning Mills of Sumoto

洲本市淡路

A brick spinning mill converted into a library and shops - a case of industrial reuse.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Tetsujin Monument, Nagata

神戸市阪神・神戸

An earthquake-hit district raised an 18-metre robot from a local cartoonist's comic, paid for by residents.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Arima Onsen

神戸市阪神・神戸

Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Sanda Celadon

三田市阪神・神戸

A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.