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Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
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Akita Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
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Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
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Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
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Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
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Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
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Oyu Stone Circles
Two stone circles fifty metres across, each with a radiating 'sundial' setting at its heart.
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Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
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Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
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Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
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Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
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Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
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Akita Castle Ruins
An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.
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Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
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Akita Fruit-Tree Experiment Station
The prefecture's fruit-tree experiment station. It researches varieties of apples and European pears.
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Akita Prefectural Forestry Research and Training Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the growing of Akita cedar and wood use.