JAPAN TRAVELING THROUGH ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE art.japan.travel LISTINGS BY REGION HOKKAIDO 01 Suiboku 30 Hoshinoya Tokyo 02 The Barn 31 Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo 03 Moerenuma Park 32 Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan 04 Sapporo International Art Festival 33 The Japan Folk Crafts Museum 05 Zaborin 34 Nakano Broadway 06 Space 1-15 35 The Peak Bar 36 The National Museum of Western TOHOKU Art, Tokyo +1 Rethinking Reconstruction 37 Tokyo National Museum, The Gallery 07 Aomori Museum of Art of Horyuji Treasures 08 Towada Art Center 38 National Museum of Nature and Science 09 Akita Museum of Art 39 Yokohama Museum of Art 10 Akita International University 40 Yokohama Triennale 2017 Nakajima Library 41 The Hakone Open-Air Museum 11 Onagawa Station 42 Sayama Forest Chapel 12 Iwate Museum of Art 43 Art Tower Mito 13 Ginzan Hot Spring Fujiya Inn 14 Yamagata Biennale 2018 CHUBU TRAVELING THROUGH ART, 15 Ken Domon Museum of Photography 44 Genbi Shinkansen DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE 16 Tendo Mokko Yamagata Head 45 Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum Office Showroom of Contemporary Art / Kinare 17 Sendai Mediatheque 46 Satoyama Jujo 18 Kankaku Museum 47 Kyu-Hyuga-Bettei at Atami Hyuga Villa 19 Hajimari Art Center 48 Asaba 49 Izu Photo Museum TOKYO & KANTO 50 Takasugi-an +1 The Infinity of Limited Space 51 Japan Alps Art Festival 2017 20 TOKYO CULTuART by BEAMS 52 Maru Factory 21 Kawaii Monster Café 53 D.T. Suzuki Museum 22 SunnyHills at Minami-Aoyama 54 Suzu 2017: Oku-Noto Triennale 23 Nezu Museum 55 Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow 24 Taka Ishii Gallery and Ice 25 TOTO GALLERY·MA 56 Yoshijima Heritage House 26 21_21 Design Sight 57 21st Century Museum of 27 The National Art Center, Tokyo Contemporary Art, Kanazawa art.japan.travel 28 Mori Art Museum 58 Mosaic Tile Museum Tajimi 29 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 59 Site of Reversible Destiny -Yoro Park, Gifu INTRODUCTION “In my world, people, locations, and concepts change all the time. This keeps me focused and excited, especially the pressure not to miss out on anything,” says Hiroshi Nakamura, summing up what young architects think about their work in Japan. Six years as a student under the wings of celebrated building designer Kengo Kuma have certainly eased his way to stardom, but that’s not the only reason for his success. More important is Nakamura’s unique sense to wed his structures with nature, such as designing a reception hall roof like a volcano to let plants grow rampant in its crater. His mentor Kuma, on the other hand, expresses closeness to nature with intrinsic wood structures as modest as SunnyHills (spot #22), or as big as the stadium for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 99+1 In the same spirit – being aware of nature – architects, designers, and | artists all over Japan have created pockets, corners, and islands full 5 introduction of their imagination. From the northernmost island of Hokkaido to the sunny beaches of Okinawa, we’ve compiled 99 spots to spark your imagination as a traveler – be it a museum, a shop, a building, an art installation, or even everyday stopping points like Hiroshi Hara’s imposing Kyoto Station (p.68). We also made sure to get out of the cities and into more rural areas up north in Tohoku, and down to Kyushu with its majestic volcanoes (p.104). With all that in one compact booklet, as well as on our homepage, what spot will you discover along the way - by and for yourself ? What will be the +1 that makes it 100? We leave it up to you and wish you a safe trip home – packed with unforgettable memories. –Roland Hagenberg Hiroshi Hara and Roland Hagenberg #61 - “KOU-AN Glass Tea House” by Tokujin Yoshioka 99+1 | 7 HOKKAIDO “House K” in Sapporo by Yoshichika Takagi Yoshichika by “House K” in Sapporo 99+1 99+1 6 | 01 02 Window view at Suiboku with Mt. Yotei LUXURY RETREAT INSPIRED BY INK 99+1 8 | SUIBOKU | 水墨 | 9 99+1 The Barn Not many homes in this world were designed for a 2,000 meter volcano to fit into their window frames, but Suiboku is such a building – a stylish retreat for vacationers with ten loft-size PROTECTED FROM THE ELEMENTS luxury apartments facing the slopes of Mt. Yotei. It was developed THE BARN under the supervision of architect Koichiro Ishiguro, who had previously worked with star architect Hiroshi Hara on the 40,000 A bistro-style restaurant, bar and café in Niseko, the Barn is a seat Sapporo Dome stadium. “What water does to ink, light modern, minimalist take on the heavy-snow proof, gambrel- does to concrete,” he explains, referring to suiboku – an ancient roofed farm structure typical of Hokkaido. Its facade and back Chinese ink-drawing technique. Inside and outside Ishiguro left wall are faced with glass to allow the guests an unhindered the concrete walls of the five story building uncovered, with the view outside – almost like a cozy, protective tunnel. Whether in imprints of wood-casings serving as design patterns. It is “most daylight or at night, spring or winter, with its superb food and beautiful when moonlight reflecting from the volcano’s snowy service, experiences are sure to be special at the Barn. slopes casts shadows,” says the architect. 170-323 Yamada, Kutchan-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido 044-0081 191-29 Yamada, Kutchan-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido 044-0081 +81-136-23-0888 +81-136-21-6133 Hokkaido | Niseko Hokkaido | Niseko Restaurant Hotel PLAYING IN THE ART AND MUSIC MOUNTAINS 03 SAPPORO 04 inaudible”, 2014, at Sapporo International Art International 2014, at Sapporo 2014 Festival inaudible”, MOERENUMA PARK INTERNATIONAL Ryuichi Sakamoto + Daito Manabe, “Sensing Streams - invisible, - invisible, Streams Manabe, “Sensing + Daito Ryuichi Sakamoto | モエレ沼公園 ART FESTIVAL | 札幌国際芸術祭 2017 Moerenuma Park is a treat to visit all year round. Situated Sapporo International Art 99+1 10 | just outside Sapporo City, Festival, the first of its kind | 11 99+1 this public park infuses the in the region, launched in surrounding nature with 2014 with musician Ryuichi brightly colored playground Sakamoto as its Guest Director. equipment and sculptural art It makes its return in 2017 by Isamu Noguchi. The park with artist and musician project was initiated in 1988 Otomo Yoshihide in that to realize Noguchi’s lifelong leading role. The next edition dream of creating a park for will incorporate an open call children. Although the artist component to further involve had a fundamental role in the public. the planning of this museum, he did not live to see its Across Sapporo City completion in 2005. +81-11-211-2314 Hokkaido | Sapporo 1-1 Moerenuma-koen, Higashi-ku, Event Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 007-0011 +81-11-790-1231 Hokkaido | Sapporo Park 05 06 99+1 12 | | 13 99+1 CASTLE OF DREAMS SERENE HOT SPRING RESORT SPACE 1-15 ZABORIN | 坐忘林 Space 1-15 was formerly a residential building called “Château Australian photographer, producer and art director Shouya Grigg de rêves” (Castle of dreams) in which a soap dealer decided to turned Zaborin into a stylish ryokan spread over 15 villas. His open shop in one of the rooms. Since that simple beginning, the art works – a dreamy interpretation of Hokkaido’s nature – are vintage structure is now a complex of intimate stores that hosts on permanent view throughout the buildings that also feature a numerous destinations for art and design lovers alike. Its offerings gallery, library, and private indoor and outdoor hot spring baths. range from handmade ceramics to cheese, artist books to used The architecture’s serene atmosphere seems to have influenced even records, organic clothes, and even photography classes. Open only the meticulously prepared kaiseki meals by chef Yoshihiro Seno. on weekend afternoons, Space 1-15 also organizes seasonal events such as morning markets and summer festivals. 76-4 Hanazono, Kutchan-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido 044-0084 +81-136-23-0003 15-1-319 Minamiichijo-nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-0061 Hokkaido | Niseko Hokkaido | Sapporo Hotel Complex Shouya Grigg 99+1 | 15 TOHOKU #08 - “Wish Tree for Towada” by Yoko Ono at Towada Art Center, © Yoko Ono All Rights Reserved Art © Yoko Center, Ono at Towada Yoko by Towada” for #08 - “Wish Tree 99+1 99+1 14 | +1 Toyo Ito at Sendai Mediatheque When Pritzker Architecture the world. He completed the 99+1 16 | Prize winner Toyo Ito started building in 2001 with 13 inner | 17 99+1 work on his Mediatheque tubes branching out from RETHINKING in Sendai he envisioned the bottom to top like giant tree RECONSTRUCTION seven-story glass library as stems. “We live inside two an artificial forest, where bodies. One is virtual, created people could stroll around, by communication technology electronic gadgets in hand, expanding continuously. The Toyo Ito at Sendai Mediatheque meeting friends or retreating other is primitive, limited, to hideouts to study – all the and has not changed for while communicating with thousands of years,” explains Ito. “ We live inside two bodies. One is virtual, the other is primitive. Between them, architecture can be the interface.” -Toyo Ito “Home-for-All” for children in Soma City by Toyo Ito and Klein Dytham architecture “We still need sleep and food and cannot escape gravity, but architecture can be the interface between those bodies.” The Tohoku Earthquake 10 years later proved him right, as the Mediatheque withstood the devastating seismic shocks “ Besides designing, and the people inside survived affordable housing is – their “virtual bodies” one of my main concerns. connected to the whole world. That explains my interest in new construction “Earth Bricks” - Japan’s first earth structure house by Yasuhiro Yamashita To support the reconstruction materials.” efforts, Ito and like minded to help.