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Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
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Rias Ark Museum of Art
Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.
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Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
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Murata Storehouse Town
A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.
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Tome Education Museum
An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tome Police Museum
A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.
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Former Yubikan
One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
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Naruko Lacquerware
Wiped lacquer that keeps the grain visible, grown from the same woodturning trade as kokeshi.
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Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.