More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  These are just some architecture shots of the museum I posted on last. This time I use the name that is listed in the official Kumamoto Ar...

Tombs Museum The Kumamoto Decorated Tombs Museum is located a few miles from Yamaga, north of Kumamoto City. It is sometimes referred to as ...

The main hall of Komyoji Temple in Saijo on Shikoku is entered through a glass corridor that traverses the poolof water surrounding the ...

Komyoji Temple When Komyoji Temple in Saijo on Shikoku decided to rebuild the temple they chose Ando Tadao to design it. Probably the be...

While I was in Kagoshima I took the opportunity to visit the Inamori Auditorium on the campus of Kagoshima University. It was built in 1...

The Museum of Art in Onomichi, Hiroshima, is located on top of the mountain overlooking the town and the nearby islands. It was...

One of the features of Tadao Ando's Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is the exterior spiral staircase. I posted some other p...

The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe is usually pictured from the sea front, but the entrance is at the back of ther building o...

The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art sits on the waterfront in Kobe and was constructed in 2002 as part of the cities post-earthquake r...

The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is located on the waterfront in Kobe, and was opened in 2002 as part of the post-earthquake reconstructi...