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沖縄県 · Tourism

Zakimi-jo

読谷村本島中部

The oldest arched gateway in Okinawa survives here.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shuri-jo

那覇市本島南部

The royal castle of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It burned in 2019 and is being rebuilt; the stone walls of the site remain.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Churaumi Aquarium

本部町本島北部

Whale sharks and reef manta rays in the great Kuroshio tank.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kokusai Street

那覇市本島南部

One point six kilometres. Its recovery from the burnt ground of the war was called the miracle mile.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Iriomote

竹富町八重山

Ninety percent of the island is primeval forest. The Iriomote cat is a Special Natural Monument.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kabira Bay

石垣市八重山

The colour of the water changes with the hour. Black pearls are farmed here, so swimming is not allowed.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Himeyuri

糸満市本島南部

It carries the memory of the Battle of Okinawa. The Cornerstone of Peace bears 240,000 names.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kouri Island

今帰仁村本島北部

A bridge 1,960 metres long crosses the sea. The island carries a Ryukyuan version of the Adam and Eve legend.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Manzamo

恩納村本島中部

A Ryukyu limestone cliff shaped like an elephant's trunk. Its name says it could seat ten thousand.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Eisa

沖縄市ほか本島中部

A dance that sends off the ancestors at the old Bon. Dancers beat drums as they move through the village.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Bingata & Yachimun

那覇市本島南部

Stencil dyeing that carries the colours of the south, and the pottery of Tsuboya. Kilns line Yachimun Street.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

札幌市道央

The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.

北海道 · Art & museums

Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art

札幌市道央

A single-artist museum for Kotaro Migishi, born in Sapporo and dead at 31 - his whole restless change of manner fits in a few rooms.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Art Park Museum

札幌市道央

Forty hectares of woodland holding both an indoor museum and 74 outdoor sculptures, half-buried in snow for part of the year.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture

札幌市道央

On the site of the sculptor Shin Hongo's own studio, holding the models for the monuments that stand in streets across Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Moerenuma Park

札幌市道央

Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo International Art Festival

札幌市道央

A triennial whose first edition was directed by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the theme of snow and the city.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery

札幌市道央

Five hundred metres of underground walkway between subway stations, used as a continuous gallery beside the commuting crowd.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Museum

札幌市道央

A red brick building known locally as the forest chalet, giving the fullest account in the province of Ainu history and colonisation.

北海道 · Art & museums

Historical Village of Hokkaido

札幌市道央

Fifty-two buildings from the Meiji and early Showa eras moved here - nowhere else shows this hybrid frontier architecture together.

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Hokkaido Government Office

札幌市道央

The red brick prefectural office of 1888: American neo-Baroque adapted to a northern climate, and an Important Cultural Property.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hoheikan

札幌市道央

A Western-style hotel built by the colonisation office, its white walls trimmed in ultramarine - a colour scheme with few parallels in Meiji Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Clock Tower

札幌市道央

Built as a drill hall for the agricultural college; its tower clock still runs on falling weights, among the oldest working mechanisms in Japan.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido University Museum

札幌市道央

Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.