Tsuzumi-mon Gate

This guide to Tsuzumi-mon Gate in Kanazawa starts with a drum-shaped gate over thirteen meters tall, built to evoke the tsuzumi hand drum of Noh theater, and asks what its engineers hid inside the curved pillars to survive Kanazawa's brutal snow. You'll hear how those pillars were laminated from thin layers of wood rather than cut from a single tree, and about the glass-paneled Motenashi Dome overhead that doubles as a solar collector. Look up at the beams for the hidden pipework running through them.