HokkaidoContemporary ArtSapporo
Moerenuma Park
Isamu Noguchi redesigned a landfill site as one continuous sculpture; it was his last work.
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HokkaidoContemporary ArtSapporo
Sapporo International Art Festival
A triennial whose first edition was directed by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the theme of snow and the city.
HokkaidoContemporary ArtSapporo
Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery
Five hundred metres of underground walkway between subway stations, used as a continuous gallery beside the commuting crowd.
HokkaidoContemporary ArtNakasatsunai
Rokka no Mori
The wildflower paintings known from a confectioner's wrapping paper, shown in huts scattered through a Tokachi wood - the garden is the display.
AomoriContemporary ArtHachinohe
Hachinohe Portal Museum Hacchi
Built as a gateway to the city in a former department store, showing its food stalls and back alleys through people rather than displays.
AomoriContemporary ArtTowada
Towada Art Square
A public square opposite the museum, with no fence and no ticket, where children walk to school between the sculptures.
AomoriContemporary ArtInakadate
Inakadate Rice Paddy Art
Rice of different colours planted as seedlings to draw a picture in one paddy; the practice began in this village and spread nationwide.
IwateContemporary Art
MiyagiContemporary ArtSendai
Akiu Falls and Rairaikyo
One of Japan's three great waterfalls, beside a gorge carved into sculptural forms by water.
Sendai
Sendai 3 Gallery
A private gallery that has long given young Tohoku artists their first solo shows.
MiyagiContemporary ArtShichigahama
Shichigahama International Village
A theatre and gallery kept by a town of 20,000, which served as a shelter after the 2011 disaster.
MiyagiContemporary Art
AkitaContemporary ArtAkita
Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
Akita
BIYONG POINT
A city gallery run by Akita University of Art, alternating student and invited shows.
AkitaContemporary Art
AkitaContemporary ArtDaisen
Omagari Fireworks
The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.
AkitaContemporary ArtŌgata
Hachirogata Reclaimed Land
A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.
Yamagata
Yamagata Biennale
A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.
YamagataContemporary ArtTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Art Forum
A circular gallery serving as the city's main venue for regional artists.
YamagataContemporary ArtYamagata
Zao Snow Monsters
Ice and snow layer onto conifers until they become vast figures - sculpture made by weather.
YamagataContemporary ArtTozawa
Mogami River Boat Route
The route that carried safflower and rice to Kyoto, its banks unrolling like a painted scroll.
Sagae
Sagae Orchards
Orchards terraced across an alluvial fan, a farmed landscape that changes colour by season.
FukushimaContemporary ArtSukagawa
Sukagawa Taimatsu Akashi
Thirty torches ten metres tall and three tonnes each, built from bamboo and straw, then set alight.
Inawashiro
Inawashiro Rural Landscape
Mt Bandai reflected in flooded rice fields - one of Tohoku's defining compositions.
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