AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
Entries in Akita217 entries
242 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
217ShowingAkitaArea12Themes
INSTAGRAM / 6
Instagram from Akita (official accounts)
No posts linked to this category have been collected yet. Showing posts from the prefecture's official accounts, rotating every minute.
217 entries / page 4 of 10
AkitaMuseums
AkitaArchitecture
AkitaMuseumsYurihonjo
Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
AkitaArt & CraftsDaisen
Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
AkitaContemporary ArtDaisen
Omagari Fireworks
The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.
AkitaArt & CraftsKazuno
Hanawa Bayashi
Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Inukko Festival
Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.
AkitaContemporary ArtŌgata
Hachirogata Reclaimed Land
A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
Akita
Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi
A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Ranga
A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Furusato Mura
Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.
AkitaCraft ExperiencesAkita
Akita Industrial Technology Center
A public testing and research institute of the prefecture. It supports electronic components and the wood processing of magewappa.
Akita
Akita Prefectural Government Manufacturing Exhibition Hall
An exhibition hall in the prefectural government building. It displays products of Akita's manufacturing industry.
Akita
Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing
The prefecture's food research institute. It deals with fermentation technology and supports the brewing of sake and miso.
AkitaFood & MarketsAkita
Akita Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station
The prefecture's agricultural experiment station. The institution that bred Akitakomachi.
Akita
Akita Fruit-Tree Experiment Station
The prefecture's fruit-tree experiment station. It researches varieties of apples and European pears.
Akita
Akita Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station
The prefecture's livestock experiment station. It works on the improvement of Hinai-jidori chicken and Akita beef cattle.
Akita
Akita Prefectural Fisheries Promotion Center
The prefecture's fisheries research institute. It researches the resource management and the propagation and farming of hatahata.
Akita
Akita Prefectural Forestry Research and Training Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the growing of Akita cedar and wood use.
AkitaCraft ExperiencesAkita
TDK Museum
A museum that presents TDK's corporate history. It covers a history that began with the commercialization of the magnetic material called ferrite.
AkitaCraft ExperiencesAkita
Ferrite Children's Science Museum
A science museum in Nikaho. Centered on how magnets work, it presents science through hands-on experience.
Akita
Kosaka Smelting & Refining
A smelter in Kosaka. It has urban mining technology for recovering metals from used electronic equipment.