Shikoku (Island), Japan Travel Blogs

Chinchu Art Museum - A Poem (from gallery notes)

A travel blog entry by trainsnotplanes

A High-Church of Art Architectural Drawing made Real The Zenith of Artistic Pretension The Pinnacle of Architecture as Meaning Studies in Light & Shadow Essential Purity of Form An Architectural Masturbation made Solid Why do I feel slightly sick? ...

Chinchu Art Museum v Benesee House Museum

A travel blog entry by trainsnotplanes

... . A place where one's physical experience is stimulated intellectually and emotionally with the rhythm of the Seo Inland Sea of Japan's quiet nature and the art and spaces created for this specific site." - extract from museum literature The Chinchu Art ...

naoshima- toda for tadao ando!

A travel blog entry by shirbil

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... on the mountain slopes and the rice fields. anyway after a few hours, 3 trains and one ferry we landed in naoshima - a tiny island in sato (inland sea) that became a fasionable spot for art lovers and tourists. the sea port terminal is designed by SANAA ...

The James Bond Island

A travel blog entry by trainsnotplanes

On this island we are targetting a 100% recycling, carbon-neutral, self-sufficiency. The massive recycling plant at its core does not house a nuclear launchpad. Honest. We do not harvest people at the General Welfare Centre. Our workers in surgical starch ...

New Years Monk

A travel blog entry by back2basics

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... place in the middle of the night. A few bridges and a few phone calls later we arrived. Brian does live on a more traditional island of Japan and he also has a puzzle room. As we entered the room the smell of malt wine filled our senses. Nothing like a ...

A Correct Experience

A travel blog entry by trainsnotplanes

"[the artworks] are accompanied by spaces which allow for a correct experience" extract from the gallery brochure (my italics) Workers in ash grey Mao suits, henchmen in concrete hessian tunics, wardens in surgical starch white overalls hover, observing. ...

Chinchu Art Museum

A travel blog entry by trainsnotplanes

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... did not leave room for the occupier to experience it on their own terms. It was, in this sense, a micro-cosmic condensation of Japan as a whole - it was entirely prescribed. There was no warmth, no room for frivolity or error, no room to run around with ...

Island or artland?!

A travel blog entry by michael_lizi

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... hotel. The company chose this island to set up shop and a few others have followed it - making Naoshima more artland than island! We arrived safe and sound on Sunday night to find out that pretty much everything is closed on a Monday! But ...

Day 15: Naoshima splurge (of Art)

A travel blog entry by oandb

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... Park, Oval, Beach) was designed by world famous Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Actually, his first idea was to make this island an architectural concept, and to build on it a new building every year. Apart from the exposition inside the Museum ...

Arty Farty Bellethorpe

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

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... sites for the price of one ticket. When we landed on Naoshima there was a very modern terminal with transport connections across the island and we quickly managed to get ourselves on a local bus which wound us around the tiny roads to Honmura. We ...

Art to planning

A travel blog entry by thepeterhawkins

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... time website I was using and resorted to the timetable, which you can do because, like the Tokyo metro, the stations around the island of Shikoku are also numbered, so you don't need to keep jotting down Kanji. Firstly, thank you JR Shikoku - your online ...

Light and Space, Architecture geeks (plus BOAR!)

A travel blog entry by em_elsworldtrip

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The next morning we were headed to Naoshima, an inland island home to some beautiful buildings and art projects by some of our favorite architects and artists. We thought we would treat ourselves and stay somewhere a little different so we ...

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Chinchu Art Museum - A Poem (from gallery notes)

Chinchu Art Museum v Benesee House Museum

naoshima- toda for tadao ando!

The James Bond Island

New Years Monk

A Correct Experience

Chinchu Art Museum

Island or artland?!

Day 15: Naoshima splurge (of Art)

Arty Farty Bellethorpe

Art to planning

Light and Space, Architecture geeks (plus BOAR!)