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北海道 · Art & museums

Kitaichi Glass Hall 3

小樽市道央

A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.

北海道 · Art & museums

Arte Piazza Bibai

美唄市道央

A sculptor turned a closed mine town's school and playground into a seven-hectare field of marble you may touch and sit on.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art

岩内町道央

The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.

北海道 · Art & museums

Arai Memorial Museum of Art

岩内町道央

Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.

北海道 · Art & museums

Ogawara Shu Memorial Art Museum

倶知安町道央

A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.

北海道 · Art & museums

National Ainu Museum

白老町道央

Japan's only national museum of an indigenous people, presenting Ainu pattern and carving as living practice rather than ethnography.

北海道 · Art & museums

Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum

平取町道央

Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.

北海道 · Art & museums

Tomakomai Art Museum

苫小牧市道央

Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.

北海道 · Art & museums

Muroran Citizens' Art Museum

室蘭市道央

A museum built from citizens' donations in a steel town, and collecting the paintings its factories provoked.

北海道 · Art & museums

Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center

江別市道央

In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.

北海道 · Art & museums

Fukagawa Art Hall Toshukan

深川市道央

A small museum inside a commercial building by the station, built on two local painters and changing its shows often.

北海道 · Art & museums

Takikawa Art and Natural History Museum

滝川市道央

Art and natural history under one roof - Sorachi printmakers beside the fossil sea cow dug up in the city.

北海道 · Art & museums

Pierson Memorial Museum

北見市道東

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Honma Family Residence

増毛町道北

The shop and residence of a family enriched by herring, kept complete - draper, shipowner and household in one Important Cultural Property.

北海道 · Art & museums

Toyako Museum of Art

洞爺湖町道央

A small municipal gallery by the lake, showing landscape and daily life in a district that has lived through repeated eruptions.

北海道 · Art & museums

Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura

登別市道央

An Edo town rebuilt at full scale; the accuracy of the carpentry makes it a place to check period stage design on foot.

北海道 · Art & museums

Motomachi Catholic Church

函館市道南

A Gothic church whose altar was a gift from Pope Benedict XV, on a slope where Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic churches stand together.

北海道 · Art & museums

Matsumae Han Yashiki

松前町道南

Hokkaido's only castle town rebuilt fourteen of its buildings to show the port as it was - the northern limit of Kyoto-derived culture.

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Nakamura Family Residence

江差町道南

A shipping agent's house built into a slope, with the hoist that lifted cargo straight from the water still in place.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Museum of Art

青森市東青

Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Contemporary Art Centre

青森市東青

A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.

青森県 · Art & museums

Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art

青森市東青

For the printmaker Shiko Munakata, who called his medium 'board painting'; the museum closed in 2024 and its works passed to the prefectural museum.

青森県 · Art & museums

Sannai-Maruyama Site

青森市東青

A Jomon settlement occupied for 1,700 years; its clay figures and lacquered combs are the oldest layer of design in Japan.

青森県 · Art & museums

Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse

青森市東青

Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.