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Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
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Akita Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
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Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
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Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
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Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Oyu Stone Circles
Two stone circles fifty metres across, each with a radiating 'sundial' setting at its heart.
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Isedotai Site
Four stone circles on one plateau, a configuration found nowhere else in Japan.
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Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
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Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
AkitaMuseumsYurihonjo
Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
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Akita Castle Ruins
An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
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Yamagata Prefectural Museum
Home to the National Treasure Jomon Goddess: 45 cm of clay with no face, all form.
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Yonezawa Uesugi Museum
Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataMuseumsSakata
Matsuyama Culture Museum
Noh masks and robes of the small Matsuyama domain, showing how minor lords sustained the art.
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Safflower Museum
In a safflower merchant's house, tracing how petals became rouge and travelled to Kyoto.
YamagataMuseumsShinjo
Snow Museum
Research on snow crystals, whose microscope photographs stand as natural design.
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Kaminoyama Castle Museum
A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.
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Fukushima Museum
Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.
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Tsuburaya Eiji Museum
In the home town of the man behind Godzilla and Ultraman, showing miniature-making as a craft.