The silver metal dragons are dancing, filling the entire screen.–This is the inside of a Large Helical Device, in the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan.

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Tocho Genso: Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall in ruin.

If Tokyo fell into ruins……? Tokyo Genso paints such Tokyo in ruins with a rich imagination.

Tokyo Genso (東京幻想) is a young Japanese painter. You can see his works on the web.

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Matsuyama castle is one of the biggest castles in Japan. This castle is built on Mt.Katsuyama, the center of Matsuyama city.

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Dogo onsen is known as model of MIYASAKI Hayao movie “Spirited Away”. The classic architecture built in Meiji era, have a presence.

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“Noritake” is famous as a well-established tableware manufacturer. Noriake Co, Ltd, which has manufactured tableware since 1904. Since then, it has been a pioneer as a ceramics manufacturer in Japan.
Noritake tableware is well known for their beautiful designs which employ many styles such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Sinicism etc. The expert craftspeople shape and decorate the tablewares. In Noritake museum, you can look around to see the total process of making the tablewares. Also, you can try painting a dish.

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It was built as a church of The Anglican Church in Japan. The first floor is made of bricks, the second floor is made of wood, and the roof is tiled with a sheet copper. These are ingenuities to make the church quakeproof.
The first floor was for Sunday school and the kindergarten, whilst the second floor was the hall.

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Google launched a campaign “My favorit places” in Tokyo and Kyoto on Aug 3. On Tsukiji Honganji temple, The 4 meters of big pin stands. Tsukiji Honganji temple,designed by ITOH Chuta, is known by its characteristic appearance.

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Old Imperial Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright

Museum Meijimura is an open-air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architectures of the Meiji period (1868-1912). You would think that there are many traditional Japanese style architectures, but most of the architectures are western style.

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