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Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art
For the printmaker Shiko Munakata, who called his medium 'board painting'; the museum closed in 2024 and its works passed to the prefectural museum.
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Sannai-Maruyama Site
A Jomon settlement occupied for 1,700 years; its clay figures and lacquered combs are the oldest layer of design in Japan.
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Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse
Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.
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Aomori Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.
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Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
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Korekawa Jomon Museum
Holds the National Treasure clay figure with its hands pressed together, and lacquer work showing how far Jomon craft had gone.
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Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
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Terayama Shuji Memorial Museum
For the theatre and film provocateur Shuji Terayama; documents emerge from giant desks and drawers, so the museum is itself a staging.
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Tachineputa Museum
Lantern figures as tall as a seven-storey building, on view all year - and rebuilt from scratch in the same hall each season.
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Kamegaoka Site
Where the goggle-eyed clay figure was found; the domain prized pots turned up here as early as the 1600s.
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Tsugaru Jomon Museum Calco
Finds from the Kamegaoka site shown locally, and evidence of how elaborate late Jomon vessels had become.
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Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum
Four thousand kokeshi from across Japan; only by lining them up does it become clear how differently each lineage draws a face.
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Namioka Castle Ruins
A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.
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Komakino Site
A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.
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Misawa History Museum
In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.