Arita Porcelain Park — Baroque Meissen in a Rice Field

Arita Porcelain Park recreates a Zwinger Palace-style baroque building (the model for Meissen porcelain's original home in Saxony) in the middle of a Saga rice field — one of Japan's more surreal landscape encounters. The park was built to honor the European connection and contains a comprehensive museum of how Japanese Arita porcelain shaped European decorative arts. The scale of the reconstruction (the dome stands 28m) and the complete incongruity of the setting make it an unusually photogenic destination.