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Tono Densho-en
Magariya farmhouses were moved here to keep the folk tales alive. The Okaiko-do hall enshrines a thousand Oshirasama figures.
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Iwate Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.
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Morioka History and Culture Museum
Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.
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Morioka Memorial Museum
Devoted to 130 figures from Morioka, with a strong holding of letters and calligraphy.
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Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
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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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Ichinoseki City Museum
Centred on Mokusa swords, an early source of the curved Japanese blade.
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Takano Choei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of a Dutch-studies scholar, showing how Western knowledge was copied under seclusion.
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Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
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Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
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Tono Municipal Museum
Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.
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Tono Story Museum
A museum of storytelling voices, built into an old inn and Yanagita's relocated house.
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Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum
Manuscripts, minerals and the cello of the poet Kenji Miyazawa, on the slope of Mt Koshio.
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Kenji Ihatov Center
A research centre on Kenji Miyazawa that also stages art and music inspired by his work.
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Hanamaki City Museum
Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.
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Kuji Amber Museum
Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.
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Iron and Steel Museum
In the town where modern Japanese steelmaking began, linked to the World Heritage Hashino blast furnace.
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Rikuzentakata City Museum
A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.
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Ofunato City Museum
Set among the shell mounds of the ria coast, showing what Jomon people ate and the tools they used.
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Miyako Kitakami Folk Museum
Tools of mountain life in the Kitakami range, from charcoal burning to hunting.
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Hachimantai City Museum
On mountain worship around Hachimantai and the tools of those who lived by the peaks.
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Yanaginogosho Site
Tens of thousands of disposable earthenware dishes reveal the scale of feasting at the Fujiwara seat.
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Iwate Prefectural Forestry Technology Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the cultivation of Japanese red pine and Japanese larch.