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神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujiko F Fujio Museum

川崎市横浜・川崎

For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hiratsuka Museum of Art

平塚市鎌倉・湘南

Collects around a single theme - the light of this coast - and the artists who worked in it.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Chigasaki City Museum of Art

茅ヶ崎市鎌倉・湘南

A small museum in a pine grove, building the record of a town where writers and painters settled.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

Prints narrowed to three local subjects, so the changing way one place was seen can be followed.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yugyoji Treasure Hall

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Enoura Observatory

小田原市県西

Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Matsunaga Memorial Hall

小田原市県西

The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Odawara Lacquerware

小田原市県西

Turned bowls of Hakone timber finished so the grain still shows - lacquer that displays the wood, not itself.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Pola Museum of Art

箱根町県西

One of Japan's great Impressionist collections, with 80 percent of the building buried to spare the forest.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hakone Open-Air Museum

箱根町県西

Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Okada Museum of Art

箱根町県西

Holds Utamaro's Deep Snow at Fukagawa, lost for seventy years, in one of Japan's largest private museums.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Lalique Museum Hakone

箱根町県西

An actual Orient Express carriage with Lalique's glass panels, entered rather than viewed through a case.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Narukawa Art Museum

箱根町県西

Four thousand works of contemporary Nihonga, and a window framing Mt Fuji across the lake by design.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Hakone Marquetry

箱根町県西

Geometric patterns built from blocks of differently coloured woods and shaved into veneer - no dye is ever used.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Honma Yosegi Museum

箱根町県西

Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Fujiya Hotel

箱根町県西

One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Nakagawa Kazumasa Museum

真鶴町県西

For a painter who returned to the same harbour and mountain for decades, working in oils, calligraphy and clay.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yokosuka Museum of Art

横須賀市鎌倉・湘南

A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall

葉山町鎌倉・湘南

The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Sawada Miki Memorial Museum

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Villas of Oiso

大磯町鎌倉・湘南

A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Enoshima Caves

藤沢市鎌倉・湘南

Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.

神奈川県 · Art & museums

Zou-no-hana Terrace

横浜市横浜・川崎

A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.