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Murata Storehouse Town
A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.
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Tome Education Museum
An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tome Police Museum
A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.
MiyagiArchitectureOsaki
Former Yubikan
One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
MiyagiArchitectureShiroishi
Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.
MiyagiArchitectureNatori
Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
Kesennuma
Kesennuma Inner Bay Buildings
The lost heart of a port town rebuilt in low timber structures, now studied as recovery design.
MiyagiArchitectureOnagawa
Onagawa Renga-michi
From Shigeru Ban's station a single promenade runs straight to the sea - a whole town recomposed.
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Minamisanriku Sansan Shopping Village
Kengo Kuma built this market street from local cedar, long low roofs on raised ground.
Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.
Shiogama
Shiogama Market and Streets
A town where shrine approach and harbour meet on a slope, its storehouses and market still in use.
Akita
Former Nara Family Residence
A wealthy farmer's house in the two-gate style unique to Akita; an Important Cultural Property.
AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Kakunodate Samurai District
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
Semboku
Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
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Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
Yokote
Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
Yuzawa
Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
Oga
Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
AkitaArchitectureNoshiro
Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.
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Former Saiseikan Hospital
A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.
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Yamadera Risshakuji
Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.