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Miyagi Museum of Art
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
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Sendai Mediatheque
Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.
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Sendai City Museum
Holds the National Treasure records of the Keicho embassy to Rome, and Date Masamune's black armour.
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Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum
Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.
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Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
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Osaki Hachimangu
Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.
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Miyagi Prefectural Library
By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.
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Jotei no Mori Museum
A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.
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Sendai Jomon Forest Park
Built on a middle Jomon settlement, where visitors can try potting and fire-making.
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Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
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Tamamushi Lacquer
Colour lacquer over silver powder, shifting like a jewel beetle's wing; developed for export in the 1930s.
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Sendai Chest
Zelkova grain glowing through lacquer, dressed in hand-forged iron mounts; its size came from storing swords.
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Sculptures on Jozenji Street
Three bronzes by Italian sculptors stand in the median of a zelkova-lined boulevard.
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Sendai Daikannon
A 100-metre white Kannon; visitors climb inside past 108 Buddhist figures.
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Shiogama Shrine Museum
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.
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Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
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Taga Castle Ruins
The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.
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Ishinomori Manga Museum
A saucer-shaped museum on a river islet for the creator of Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, reopened after the tsunami.
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Ishinomaki City Museum
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.