Historical Takayama's Beautiful Fall Festival Amber Echevarria These are huge, heavy old wooden carts that stretch to around 20 feet (... controlled by as many as 36 strings and 9 skillful puppeteers from inside the carts
Festivals Yokote Christie Petrakopoulou The Manga Art Gallery in Matsuda town, where the lifeworks of Takao Yaguchi... It includes several buildings that include an art museum, a small cultural
13 Arts & Crafts Food Replica Making Experience Haruka Saijo Food replicas, synthetic food showcased in restaurants and cafes, are a... field of art invented in Japan.
9 Arts & Crafts Chikeiken's Hidden Treasures Alena Eckelmann Chikeiken farmers' restaurant is home to a hatori weaving master cultivating her craft on cold winter days after serving guests at her restaurant
Museums Kyushu National Museum Tony Mariani The various parts of the building are seismically isolated.... we visited, there was a delegation from Uzbekistan demonstrating local crafts
12 Culture Pen Station Museum & Café Tomoko Kamishima second floor has exhibition rooms showing various types of pens, and parts... This example of Korin Ogata’s maki-e writing box is a masterpiece of the art
Museums Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Anonymous University, who had hoped to build a museum dedicated to the theatre arts... of its influence on society, and society’s influence on the changing acts