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Iwate
Sekinoichi Sake Brewery and Iwate Kura Beer
A sake brewery in Ichinoseki. It makes both sake and craft beer, and opens its brewery buildings to visitors.
IwateFood & MarketsIwate
Asabiraki Showa Asahi-gura Brewery
A sake brewery in Morioka. You can tour a brewing storehouse completed in 1988, where brewing tools remain.
IwateFood & MarketsIwate
Nanbu Bijin
A sake brewery in Ninohe. It went overseas early, and exports account for a high share of its sales.
IwateFood & MarketsIwate
Baeren Brewery
A craft beer brewery in Morioka. It began by taking over old equipment from Germany.
IwateCraft ExperiencesShizukuishi
Koiwai Farm
A farm opened in 1891. Twenty-one buildings, including cattle barns, are Important Cultural Properties, and dairy farming continues today.
Iwate
Iwate Agricultural Research Center
The prefecture's agricultural research institute. It breeds varieties of paddy rice and upland crops.
Iwate
Iwate Prefectural Forestry Technology Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the cultivation of Japanese red pine and Japanese larch.
Iwate
Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center
The prefecture's fisheries research institute. It deals with stock enhancement and aquaculture, and with techniques for wakame seaweed and abalone.
Iwate
Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Science Museum
A fisheries science museum in Miyako. It presents the fishing industry of Sanriku.
Iwate
Moguranpia Aquarium and Petroleum Culture Hall
An aquarium in Kuji. It uses an underground tunnel of the national petroleum stockpiling base as it is, and also exhibits how petroleum stockpiling works.
Iwate
Kuji National Petroleum Stockpiling Base
A national petroleum stockpiling base built underground in Kuji. Crude oil is stored inside the bedrock.
IwateCulture & HistoryIwate
Kamaishi City Iron and Steel History Museum
A museum of the history of ironmaking in Kamaishi, the place where a Western-style blast furnace first operated in Japan.
Iwate
Nippon Steel East Nippon Works Kamaishi Area
A steelworks in Kamaishi. It makes wire rod. Japan's modern steelmaking began here.
Iwate
Hashino Iron Mine Information Center
The Hashino iron mine, where a Western-style blast furnace went into operation in 1858. It is inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site.
Iwate
Kitakami River Gosho Dam Information Hall
Gosho Dam on the Kitakami River and its museum. The dam serves flood control and power generation.
Iwate
Isawa Dam and Lake Oshu Exchange Hall
A rock-fill dam on the Isawa River. Its embankment volume is among the largest in Japan, and an exchange hall is attached.
Iwate
Yuda Dam and Lake Kinshu Otaki Falls
A dam on the Waga River. It carries out inspection water releases in spring and opens Kinshuko Otaki to the public in summer.
IwateCraft ExperiencesIwate
Shijushida Dam
A dam for flood control and power generation on the main stream of the Kitakami River. It is located near Morioka.
Iwate
Mount Iwate Foothills Agricultural Irrigation Facilities
Agricultural irrigation water drawn to the foot of Mount Iwate. A civil engineering work that turned volcanic ash land into farmland.
Iwate
Waga Chuo Agricultural Irrigation and Small Hydropower
A facility that incorporates small hydropower generation into the agricultural irrigation canals of Waga.
Iwate
Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum
A memorial museum of the earthquake disaster in Rikuzentakata. It conveys the record of the tsunami and the course of the recovery.
Iwate
Inochi o Tsunagu Miraikan
A disaster-preparedness learning facility in Kamaishi. It tells how children's evacuation saved many lives.
Iwate
Ofunato Tsunami Memorial Museum
A tsunami memorial museum in Ofunato. It covers the record of the tsunamis that have repeatedly struck the Sanriku coast and the recovery of the area.
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