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We have 2 pages of Japanese Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. This page lists key building in the major cities. The second page (linked below in bold) lists key buildings outwith the major cities.
We aim to select projects that are either of top quality or interesting or ideally both.

We've selected what we feel are the key recent Japanese Buildings, chronological:

Water/Glass Villa, Shizuoka Prefecture (1995)
Yokohama Port Terminal, Tokyo (2002)
TBWA\Hakuhodo, Tokyo (2007)
Museum of Hiroshige Ando, Batou (2000)
Leaf Chapel, Yamanashi (2004)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
SHELL building, Karuizawa, Nagano (2008)
Fuji Kindergarten, Tachikawa, Tokyo (2008)
Armani/Ginza Tower, Tokyo (2008)

Comments on the Japanese Architecture selection welcome. These are not selected due to their fame - we've left out the Tokyo Tower, Mid Town Tower and Tokyo City Hall - but because each in its way achieved a milestone and signified strong creative achievement.

We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across Japan.

Japanese Building - full list of projects (best selection below)

Major Architecture Projects, alphabetical:

Armani/Ginza Tower, Tokyo Massimiliano Fuksas Architects photograph : Ramon Prat Armani/Ginza Tower	Black House, Kobe-city Tadashi Suga Architect photo: Yoshiharu Matsumura Black House
Boukyo house Nakayama Architects image from the architect Boukyo home	Bourou Noguchi, Noboribetsu Onsen Nakayama Architects image from the architect Contemporary Japanese Hotel
Casa Wakasa, Osaka wHY Architecture picture : Koji Nagasawa Casa Wakasa	Chokkura Plaza, Tochigi Kengo Kuma & Associates image : Daici Ano -
Column and Slab House, Tokyo FT Architects photograph : Koichi Torimura Column and Slab House	Crystal brick house - housing, Tokyo Atelier Tekuto photo : Makoto Yoshida Japanese housing
Forest Observatory, Kyushu Island Rintala Eggertsson Architects photo from the architect Forest Observatory	French School, Tokyo albert abut architecture picture from the architect Japanese Language School
Fuji Kindergarten, Tachikawa, Tokyo Tezuka Architects photograph : Katsuhisa Kida Fuji Kindergarten	Garage in Asahikawa, Hokkaido Jun Igarashi Architects Inc. image from the architect Japanese garage building
Glashaus / Utsubo, Osaka K.Associates picture © Hitoyuki Hitai Glashaus	Home in Fukaya K.Associates picture © Hitoyuki Hitai Fukaya Home
Home in Higashi-Otsu K.Associates photo © Hitoyuki Hitai Higashi-Otsu House	House in Kurakuen II K.Associates picture © Hitoyuki Hitai Kurakuen II House
Home In Nagata, Kobe-city Tadashi Suga Architect image : Yoshiharu Matsumura Home In Nagata	House in Nipponbashi K.Associates photo © Hitoyuki Hitai Nipponbashi House
House in Onitori Kenji Tagashira photo : Kei Sugino Home in Onitori	House in Uehonmachi, Osaka-city Junya Toda Architect & Associates picture from the architects Osaka-city architecture
Industrial Designer House, Tokyo Koji Tsutsui picture : Masao Nishikawa Tokyo House	Kakogawa City Office, Hyogo Prefecture Akira Sakamoto - Kakogawa City building
Korinkyo House, northern Japan Nakayama Architects photo by Makoto Nakayama Korinkyo House	Kuramure Hotel, Otaru Nakayama Architects image from the architect Kuramure Hotel
Kure City Ondo Civic Center, Hiroshima Kengo Kuma & Associates - Japanese Civic Center	Leaf Chapel, Yamanashi klein dytham architecture picture from the architect Leaf Chapel Yamanashi
Light well House, Kyoto Keiichi Hayashi image : Yoshiyuki Hirai Light well Home Kyoto	The Meridian line Ferry Terminal K.Associates photo © Hitoyuki Hitai Akashi Ferry Terminal
Millennium Tower, Tokyo Foster + Partners image : Foster + Partners Millennium Tower Tokyo	Mitsumura Office, Kobe-city Tadashi Suga Architect photo: Yoshiharu Matsumura Mitsumura Office
Museum of Hiroshige Ando, Batou Kengo Kuma & Associates image : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka -	Nexus Kashi III, Fukuoka Martha Schwartz picture © Wade Zimmerman Nexus Japan
Oki, Home Nakayama Architects - Japanese house	Parabola Atelier Tekuto image : Makoto Yoshida Parabola house
Prada Store Herzog and de Meuron picture © James Whitaker 2009 www.WhitakerStudio.co.uk Prada Store Tokyo	Reflection of Mineral Atelier Tekuto photo : Makoto Yoshida Contemporary Japanese home
Saint-Gobain Headquarters, Kojimachi albert abut architecture - Saint-Gobain Headquarters	Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido Nakayama Architects - Sapporo architecture
SHELL building, Karuizawa, Nagano Kotaro Ide / ARTechnic architects picture : Nacasa & Partners Inc SHELL villa	Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo Hopkins Architects photograph : Miyagawa Inc Tokyo architecture
Stadium600 building, Nagoya K.Associates picture © Hitoyuki Hitai Japanese stadium architecture	Strata House, Hyogo Prefecture Tadashi Suga Architect photo: Yoshiharu Matsumura Strata House
Suntory Museum of Art Kengo Kuma & Associates image : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka Suntory Museum of Art	Tanigami Office + Gallery, Kobe-city Junya Toda Architect & Associates - Kobe-city architecture
TBWA\Hakuhodo, Tokyo Klein Dytham architecture $TBWA\Hakuhodo$ photograph : Kozo Takayama TBWA\Hakuhodo Tokyo	Tokiwa House, Sakai City Kenji Tagashira photograph : Kei Sugino Japanese Home
Tokyo Matsuya Unity, Higashiueno Hugo Kohno Architects Associates photo : Isao Imbe Tokyo Matsuya Unity	United Bamboo Store, Daikanyama Acconci Studio - Japanese retail architecture
Water/Glass Villa, Shizuoka Prefecture Kengo Kuma & Associates picture : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka -	Memorial Hall building, Yamaguchi K.Associates photo © Hitoyuki Hitai Yamaguchi building
Yokohama Port Terminal, Tokyo Foreign Office Architects picture via RIAS in 2004 Yokohama Ferry Terminal	Zen house, Hiroshima Ryuichi Furumoto - Zen house

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Japanese architect : Fumihiko Maki

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

Modern Japanese Building

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo - 1959 by Le Corbusier

Japanese architect : Tadao Ando

Traditional Japanese Building

Katsura Rikyu - Imperial family residence, Kyoto by Lord Enshu Kobori
Edo-period architecture: ‘sukiya’ style Imperial villa - 17th century

Japanese Architects

No larger images, apologies - Tom Heneghan Japanese Architecture:

Fukushima

image from Tom Heneghan Architects via RIAS

Kumamoto

image from Tom Heneghan Architects via RIAS

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