Iwate
Iwate Industrial Research Institute
A public testing and research institution of the prefecture. It supports the casting of Nanbu ironware and metalworking in the Kitakami River basin.
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Iwachu Ironware Museum
A museum attached to a Nanbu ironware factory. Visitors can see the process from casting mold to finished iron kettle.
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Suzuki Morihisa Workshop
A Nanbu ironware workshop in Morioka. Founded in 1625, it has passed down metal-casting techniques from generation to generation.
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OIGEN Factory Shop
A Nanbu ironware maker in Mizusawa, Oshu. A direct-sales shop is attached to the factory.
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Oigen Foundry Casting Technology
A foundry in Oshu. It makes ironware using its pouring and heat-treatment techniques.
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Iwayado Tansu Production Cooperative
The cooperative for Iwayado tansu chests. Nanbu iron fittings are hammered onto a zelkova wood body.
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Hanamaki Dolls and Hanamaki Kokeshi
Folk toys of Hanamaki. Clay dolls and kokeshi are made. Hanamaki dolls began in the Edo period under the influence of Kyoto's Fushimi dolls.
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Nishiwaga Town Akebi Vine Craft
Akebi vine craft from Nishiwaga. Vines gathered in the mountains are woven into baskets.
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Iwate Kuzumaki Wine
Wild grape wine from Kuzumaki. The town started it as a third-sector, public-private enterprise.
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Koiwai Farm
A farm opened in 1891. Twenty-one buildings, including cattle barns, are Important Cultural Properties, and dairy farming continues today.
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Moguranpia Aquarium and Petroleum Culture Hall
An aquarium in Kuji. It uses an underground tunnel of the national petroleum stockpiling base as it is, and also exhibits how petroleum stockpiling works.
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Kuji National Petroleum Stockpiling Base
A national petroleum stockpiling base built underground in Kuji. Crude oil is stored inside the bedrock.
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Nippon Steel East Nippon Works Kamaishi Area
A steelworks in Kamaishi. It makes wire rod. Japan's modern steelmaking began here.
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Kitakami River Gosho Dam Information Hall
Gosho Dam on the Kitakami River and its museum. The dam serves flood control and power generation.
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Isawa Dam and Lake Oshu Exchange Hall
A rock-fill dam on the Isawa River. Its embankment volume is among the largest in Japan, and an exchange hall is attached.
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Yuda Dam and Lake Kinshu Otaki Falls
A dam on the Waga River. It carries out inspection water releases in spring and opens Kinshuko Otaki to the public in summer.
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Shijushida Dam
A dam for flood control and power generation on the main stream of the Kitakami River. It is located near Morioka.
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Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum
A memorial museum of the earthquake disaster in Rikuzentakata. It conveys the record of the tsunami and the course of the recovery.
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Inochi o Tsunagu Miraikan
A disaster-preparedness learning facility in Kamaishi. It tells how children's evacuation saved many lives.
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Ofunato Tsunami Memorial Museum
A tsunami memorial museum in Ofunato. It covers the record of the tsunamis that have repeatedly struck the Sanriku coast and the recovery of the area.
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Sanriku Railway
A railway running along the Sanriku coast. It restored the sections washed away in the earthquake disaster and reconnected the entire line.
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ILC-Related Technology and Iwate Accelerator-Related Industry Study Group
A study group working toward bringing a linear accelerator to the area. Precision-machining companies from within the prefecture gather in it.