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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.
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Haguro Five-Storey Pagoda
An unpainted five-storey pagoda standing among 400-year-old cedars; the oldest in Tohoku.
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Dewa Sanzan Shrine
A thatched roof over two metres thick, sheltering the gods of all three sacred mountains at once.
Sakata
Homma Family Residence
Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.
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Sankyo Rice Warehouses
Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.
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Ginzan Onsen
Wooden inns of the 1920s facing each other across a stream, their plaster walls modelled in relief.
Tsuruoka
Oyama Sake District
Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.
Nagai
Nagai Waterways
A river-trade town threaded with canals that reach behind the merchant houses themselves.
Takahata
Takahata Stone Quarries
Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.
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Matsugaoka Reclamation Site
Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.