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茨城県 · Art & museums

Nishinouchi Washi

常陸大宮市県北

Paper so strong it was used for ledgers and firemen's coats, once reserved for the Mito domain.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Carvings of Kasama Inari

笠間市県央

Vegetables and fruit carved in fine relief around the hall - shrine carpentry at close range.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Seizanso

常陸太田市県北

The thatched retreat of Tokugawa Mitsukuni - austerity chosen by a man who could afford anything.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kamiiso Torii of Oarai

大洗町県北

A torii on a wave-washed rock, framing the sunrise.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Plum Groves of Mito

水戸市県央

Plum trees planted as emergency food became the garden itself - utility turned into landscape.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Signboard Architecture of Ishioka

石岡市県央

Rebuilt after a great fire, the street keeps a run of shops with Western facades pasted onto Japanese frames.

茨城県 · Art & museums

ATM Concert Hall

水戸市県央

Gallery, theatre and concert hall bound together by a tower - Isozaki's model of a civic arts complex.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tsukuba Center Building

つくば市県南

Its sunken plaza inverts Michelangelo's Campidoglio - a high point of Japanese postmodern architecture.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Tsukuba Science City

つくば市県南

A science city built to state plan, and with it a dense archive of 1970s Japanese public architecture.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Five Hundred Rakan of Motokomezaki

那珂市県央

Stone rakan figures ranged across a slope, no two faces alike.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Nishinouchi Papermaking

常陸大宮市県北

Paper is still made in midwinter, when cold water makes the fibres bind best.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Sailing Fishing Boats of Kasumigaura

かすみがうら市県南

White-sailed fishing boats, retired from work but kept sailing so the sight survives.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Itako Waterways

潮来市鹿行

Where canals were once the roads; brides still arrive by boat, at least for the festival.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Storehouses of Yuki

結城市県西

A textile trading town whose merchant storehouses still show where the money went.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Painted Doors of Kobuntei

水戸市県央

Each room is named for a plant and painted to match; the doors were restored after wartime fire.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Oarai Industrial Landscape

大洗町県北

A shoreline of harbour works and factories, where industrial structure reads as landscape.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Ryugasaki Museum

龍ケ崎市県南

Holds the gear of Tsukumai, a rain-prayer dance performed atop a 14-metre pole.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Bando Museum and Taira no Masakado

坂東市県西

The base of Taira no Masakado, with material on the warriors of the medieval east.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Hokota Farmland

鉾田市鹿行

Greenhouses ranked to the horizon - agricultural scale become an artificial landscape.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Kasama Chrysanthemum Festival

笠間市県央

One of Japan's oldest chrysanthemum festivals, dressing figures in living trained flowers.

茨城県 · Art & museums

Girekkan of Tokiwa Shrine

水戸市県央

Relics of Mito's two great lords, whose calligraphy and armour convey the temper of Mito learning.

茨城県 · Regional selections

Lake Kasumigaura

土浦市県南

The second-largest lake in Japan, known for sail-net fishing, with a cycle path running right around the shore.

茨城県 · Regional selections

Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum

阿見町県南

A memorial hall in Ami on the site of the naval air training corps, telling of the young airmen's training and of the war.

茨城県 · Regional selections

Ajigaura Beach (Ajigaura Coast)

ひたちなか市県央

A swimming beach in Hitachinaka, within walking distance of the terminus of the Hitachinaka Seaside Railway.