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IwateShrines & TemplesKamaishi
Ozaki Jinja
A shrine that guards the Sanriku fisheries. It was rebuilt after the tsunami.
IwateShrines & TemplesHiraizumi
Nobutai (Chusonji)
The guardian shrine of Chusonji. Its thatched Noh stage is an Important Cultural Property.
Kitakami
Tachibana Bishamondo
It preserves a wooden standing Bishamonten figure designated an Important Cultural Property.
IwateCulture & HistoryOshu
Esashi Fujiwara
A site with reconstructed Heian architecture, where the world of the Northern Fujiwara can be walked through.
IwateNature & Scenery
IwateContemporary Art
IwateNature & Scenery
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Sansa Odori
It holds the world record for the number of Japanese drums played at once.
IwateArt & CraftsTakizawa
Chagu Chagu Umakko
Horses in full harness walk to the sound of bells. A festival of Nanbu horse country.
IwateArchitectureShizukuishi
Koiwai Farm
A private farm at the foot of Mount Iwate. Twenty-one buildings, the cowsheds among them, are Important Cultural Properties.
IwateNature & SceneryHachimantai
Hachimantai
Walls of snow appear when the road is cleared in spring. It runs at 1,600 metres.
IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Densho-en
Magariya farmhouses were moved here to keep the folk tales alive. The Okaiko-do hall enshrines a thousand Oshirasama figures.
IwateArchitectureOshu
Nambu Ironware
Iron is poured into sand moulds. The water is said to taste sweeter for it, and the ware now sells well abroad.
IwateGardens
IwateMuseums
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Iwate Museum of Art
Built around three artists from Iwate: the avant-gardist Yorozu Tetsugoro, the urban painter Shunsuke Matsumoto, and the marble sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
Hanamaki
Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum of Art
It stands in the hometown of a painter who helped pioneer Japan's reception of Fauvism and Cubism. From the hill in Tsuchizawa, you can see the same mountains he painted.
Morioka
Iwate Bank Red Brick Building
The only surviving Tohoku work by Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
IwateArchitectureMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Public Hall
A 1927 civic hall by the architect of Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium, still in daily use.
IwateMuseumsMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.