HokkaidoMuseumsAbashiri
Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.
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HokkaidoMuseumsBiratori
Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum
Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
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.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
AomoriMuseumsGoshogawara
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.
AomoriMuseumsKuroishi
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.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
IwateMuseumsKuji
Kuji Amber Museum
Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.
Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki City Museum
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.
Zao
Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
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.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
Odate
Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
IbarakiMuseumsChikusei
Itaya Hazan Memorial Museum
The birthplace of the first potter to receive Japan's Order of Culture, known for his veiled hoko glaze.
TochigiMuseumsMashiko
Mashiko Sankokan Museum
Shoji Hamada built it to show the objects he learned from - other people's work, not his own, takes the lead.
TochigiMuseumsMibu
Mibu Toy Museum
In a town of toy factories, collecting mass-produced Showa toys as design objects.
SaitamaMuseumsSaitama
Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
ChibaMuseumsAbiko
Shirakaba Museum
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
KanagawaMuseumsYokohama
Yokohama Doll Museum
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
NiigataMuseumsItoigawa
Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
ToyamaMuseumsToyama
Toyama Folkcraft Village
Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.
Nomi
Nomi Kutani Ware Museum
Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.
Kaga
Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.