AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Museum of Art
Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.
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Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Hachinohe Art Museum
A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.
AomoriArt & CraftsTowada
Towada Art Center
Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.
AomoriArt & CraftsShichinohe
Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.
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
Fukazawa Koko Museum
Watercolours of wild flowers, shown in a former bank on the Nakatsu river.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Miyagi Museum of Art
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum
Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
MiyagiArt & CraftsKesennuma
Rias Ark Museum of Art
Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Museum of Modern Art
On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata Museum of Art
Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo City Art Museum
Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Dewazakura Art Museum
Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.
YamagataArt & Crafts
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
FukushimaArt & CraftsFukushima
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.