Zao
Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
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MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Sendai Literature Museum
Its first director was the playwright Hisashi Inoue; manuscripts are shown as calligraphy as much as text.
MiyagiMuseumsKakuda
Kakuda Local Museum
Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.
Watari
Watari Local Museum
Keeps records of Date Shigezane, one of Masamune's chief retainers, and restores tsunami-damaged material.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
AkitaMuseumsSemboku
Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
AkitaMuseumsYokote
Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Oyu Stone Circles
Two stone circles fifty metres across, each with a radiating 'sundial' setting at its heart.
Kitaakita
Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
Odate
Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
AkitaMuseumsYurihonjo
Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Castle Ruins
An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Yamagata Prefectural Museum
Home to the National Treasure Jomon Goddess: 45 cm of clay with no face, all form.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Mogami Yoshiaki Museum
The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum
Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.
YamagataMuseumsYonezawa
Yonezawa Uesugi Museum
Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.