IwateMuseumsHiraizumi
Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center
Finds from the seat of the Northern Fujiwara, whose century of rule made Hiraizumi a rival to Kyoto.
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IwateMuseumsIchinoseki
Ichinoseki City Museum
Centred on Mokusa swords, an early source of the curved Japanese blade.
Oshu
Takano Choei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of a Dutch-studies scholar, showing how Western knowledge was copied under seclusion.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Municipal Museum
Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.
IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Story Museum
A museum of storytelling voices, built into an old inn and Yanagita's relocated house.
IwateMuseumsHanamaki
Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum
Manuscripts, minerals and the cello of the poet Kenji Miyazawa, on the slope of Mt Koshio.
Hanamaki
Kenji Ihatov Center
A research centre on Kenji Miyazawa that also stages art and music inspired by his work.
Hanamaki
Hanamaki City Museum
Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.
IwateMuseumsKuji
Kuji Amber Museum
Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.
IwateMuseumsKamaishi
Iron and Steel Museum
In the town where modern Japanese steelmaking began, linked to the World Heritage Hashino blast furnace.
IwateMuseumsRikuzentakata
Rikuzentakata City Museum
A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.
IwateMuseumsŌfunato
Ofunato City Museum
Set among the shell mounds of the ria coast, showing what Jomon people ate and the tools they used.
Miyako
Miyako Kitakami Folk Museum
Tools of mountain life in the Kitakami range, from charcoal burning to hunting.
IwateMuseumsHachimantai
Hachimantai City Museum
On mountain worship around Hachimantai and the tools of those who lived by the peaks.
IwateMuseumsHiraizumi
Yanaginogosho Site
Tens of thousands of disposable earthenware dishes reveal the scale of feasting at the Fujiwara seat.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Sendai City Museum
Holds the National Treasure records of the Keicho embassy to Rome, and Date Masamune's black armour.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Jotei no Mori Museum
A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.
Sendai
Sendai Jomon Forest Park
Built on a middle Jomon settlement, where visitors can try potting and fire-making.
MiyagiMuseumsTagajo
Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
MiyagiMuseumsIshinomaki
Ishinomori Manga Museum
A saucer-shaped museum on a river islet for the creator of Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, reopened after the tsunami.
Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki City Museum
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.
Ishinomaki
Sant Juan Bautista Museum
A replica of the ship that carried Hasekura Tsunenaga to Rome. One of the few places to learn the structure of a wooden sailing ship through models and full-size parts.