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Koiwai Farm
A private farm at the foot of Mount Iwate. Twenty-one buildings, the cowsheds among them, are Important Cultural Properties.
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Nambu Ironware
Iron is poured into sand moulds. The water is said to taste sweeter for it, and the ware now sells well abroad.
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Iwate Bank Red Brick Building
The only surviving Tohoku work by Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
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Iwate Prefectural Public Hall
A 1927 civic hall by the architect of Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium, still in daily use.
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Takkoku no Iwaya
A hall wedged into a cliff hollow, beside a Buddha's face carved into the rock wall.
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Historic Park Esashi Fujiwara
Full-scale reconstructions of Heian palaces, used repeatedly as a period-drama film set.
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Hashino Iron Mine
The oldest surviving Western-style blast furnace remains in Japan, deep in the mountains.
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Koiwai Farm Buildings
Twenty-one farm buildings designated Important Cultural Properties, many still in daily use.
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Ogal Project
A public-private development built from local timber, studied nationwide as a model.
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Morioka Castle Stone Walls
A rare all-stone castle in Tohoku; the granite walls remain though the buildings are gone.
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Kanjizaio-in Ruins
Only the Pure Land garden survives of a temple built by the wife of Fujiwara no Motohira.
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Konyacho, Morioka
The old indigo dyers' quarter, where Edo-period townhouses still trade as shops.