HokkaidoMuseumsSapporo
Hokkaido University Museum
Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.
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AomoriMuseumsAomori
Aomori Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.
AomoriMuseumsHirosaki
Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
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IwateMuseumsIchinohe
Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
IwateMuseumsKamaishi
Iron and Steel Museum
In the town where modern Japanese steelmaking began, linked to the World Heritage Hashino blast furnace.
MiyagiMuseumsTagajo
Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
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.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
MiyagiMuseumsKakuda
Kakuda Local Museum
Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.
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.
AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataMuseumsKaminoyama
Kaminoyama Castle Museum
A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.
FukushimaMuseumsIwaki
Kusano Shimpei Memorial Museum
A museum for the frog poet, stretched along a ridge so the view becomes part of the display.
FukushimaMuseumsMinamiaizu
Okuaizu Museum
Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
FukushimaMuseumsInawashiro
Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum
The bacteriologist's birthplace preserved intact, including the pillar he carved his vow into.
IbarakiMuseumsMito
Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History
A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.
IbarakiMuseumsKoga
Koga Museum of History
An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.
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Koga Kubo Park and Takami Senseki Memorial
The samurai house where the Dutch-studies scholar Takami Senseki spent his last years.