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Tōno Denshōen
About 5km east of the town centre is Denshōen, another traditional farmhouse, now housing a small cultural museum. The highlights here are the thousand Oshira-sama deities fashioned from mulberry wood.
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Uchiwa
This museum has displays and demonstrations on how uchiwa (round paper fans) are made. Around 90% of Japans uchiwa are still made in Marugame. Its a 15-minute walk from the station, near the harbour.
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Tenju
A subtemple of Nanzen-ji, Tenju-an is located on the south side of San-mon, the main gate of Nanzen-ji. Constructed in 1337, Tenju-an has a splendid garden and a great collection of carp in its pond.
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Senmaida Rice Terraces
Once a common sight in Japan, this ancient method of farming is disappearing – these thousand terraced rice paddies snaking up the hillside are both fascinating and beautiful in all seasons.
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Yokokan Garden
This quaint garden in Fukui city, formerly a mansion of the Matsudaira clan, has a pretty teahouse where you can sit in silence and contemplate life, or feed the voraciously hungry koi (carp).
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Takai Kōzan Kinenkan
Takai Kōzan, Hokusais friend and patron, was a businessman and an accomplished classical artist specialising in elegant Chinese-style landscapes. His life and work is commemorated in this small museum.
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Nishi Amane Former Residence
Its a pleasant walk down the river from Tsuwano town centre to see the peaked-roof former residence of Nishi Amane (1829–97), a philosopher and political scientist prominent in the Meiji government.
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Fukuoka City Museum
This smart museum displays artefacts from local history and culture, and the pride of the collection is an ancient 2.3 sq cm, 108g golden seal with an inscription proving Japans historic ties to China.
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Kodai Izumo Ōyashiro Mokei
To get an idea of the original size of Izumo Taisha, check out the scale model of the shrine as it was about 800 years ago, housed in a small hall on the corner opposite the main shrine gate entrance.
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Karakuri Museum
On display are over 800 shishi (lion) masks, instruments and drums related to festival dances. The main draw is the twice-hourly puppet show where you can see the mechanical karakuri ningyō, in action.
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Shimonoseki Kaikyō
See fugu and penguins, among other fishy attractions, at Shimonoseki’s aquarium. There are also dolphin shows, which may not sit well with some. Welfare groups believe keeping dolphins captive causes them harm.
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Takayama Museum of History & Art
Not to be confused with the Hida Takayama Museum of Art, this free museum is situated around pretty gardens and features 14 themed exhibition rooms relating to local history, culture, literature and the arts.
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Traditional Crafts Museum
Asakusa has a long artisan tradition and changing exhibitions of local crafts – such as Edo-kiriko (cut glass) – are on display here. Demonstrations are held on Saturdays and Sundays (between 11am and 5pm).
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Mori Ōgai Memorial Museum
Not to be confused with a museum in Tokyo, this simple building next to the novelists former residence displays signed manuscripts and relics from his life as a writer and physician. One for literary fans.
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Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum
This modern museum about a 15-minute walk west of the former train station, has a large, rotating collection of lacquerware in galleries on two floors. Phone ahead, as this museum closes between exhibitions.
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Hagi Uragami Museum
In this appealing modern building youll find a superb collection of ceramics and wood-block prints, with fine works by Katsushika Hokusai and Utamaro Kitagawa. There are also regular special exhibitions.
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Maizō
In the Dutch Slopes area, this has archaeological artefacts. Oranda-zaka comes from the name foreigners were given: Oranda-san, people from Holland. The combined admission is for Ko-shashin-shiryōkan as well.
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Dōtombori Street
Just south and parallel to the canal is this pedestrianised street, where dozens of restaurants and theatres vie for attention with the flashiest of signage: giant 3-D crab, puffer fish, dragon and more.
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Cormorant Fishing
Watch from the riverbank at Kintai-kyō as fishermen and their feathered workers hunt by torchlight, or take a boat ride. Daily in summer, except when rain makes the water muddy, or on nights with a full moon.
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The blast knocked down half of the stone entrance arch to the Sanno-jinja shrine, 800m southeast of the hypocentre, but the other pillar remains, a quiet testimony to the power of strength and resilience.
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