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Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
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Iron and Steel Museum
In the town where modern Japanese steelmaking began, linked to the World Heritage Hashino blast furnace.
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Hashino Iron Mine
The oldest surviving Western-style blast furnace remains in Japan, deep in the mountains.
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Koiwai Farm Buildings
Twenty-one farm buildings designated Important Cultural Properties, many still in daily use.
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Ogal Project
A public-private development built from local timber, studied nationwide as a model.
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Morioka Castle Stone Walls
A rare all-stone castle in Tohoku; the granite walls remain though the buildings are gone.
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Kanjizaio-in Ruins
Only the Pure Land garden survives of a temple built by the wife of Fujiwara no Motohira.
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Konyacho, Morioka
The old indigo dyers' quarter, where Edo-period townhouses still trade as shops.
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Sendai Mediatheque
Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.
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Osaki Hachimangu
Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.
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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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Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
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Taga Castle Ruins
The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.
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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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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.