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Obori Soma Ware
Double-walled cups that stay cool to hold; every kiln was evacuated after 2011 and is rebuilding elsewhere.
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FukushimaArt & CraftsKawamata
Kawamata Silk
Weaving thread one-sixth the width of a human hair - a small district holding a world record for thinness.
Shirakawa
Shirakawa Daruma
Its whole face is built from lucky symbols: crane eyebrows, turtle whiskers, and pine, bamboo and plum in the sideburns and beard, to a design commissioned by the local lord.
FukushimaArchitectureShirakawa
Nanko Park
Opened to all classes in 1801 by Matsudaira Sadanobu - arguably Japan's first public park.
FukushimaArchitectureKoriyama
Asaka Reclamation and Canal
A Dutch engineer's canal that turned moorland into farmland - a designated Japan Heritage landscape.
FukushimaMuseumsFutaba
Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum
The national archive of the nuclear disaster, raising the question of how such records should be shown.
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Former Horikiri Residence
A wealthy landowner's estate at Iizaka hot spring, its 18-metre storehouse showing rural merchant scale.
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Former Date District Office
An 1883 district office in pseudo-Western style, showing how provincial officialdom absorbed the West.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Cotton
Thick striped cotton the domain spread as farmers' workwear, each district with its own stripe.
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Aizu Painted Candles
Flowers painted onto candles for altars in winter, when no real blossom could be found.
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Byakkotai Memorial Hall
A private collection on the Boshin War, on the slope of Mt Iimori beside the Sazaedo.
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Aizu Sake Breweries
Aizu keeps many Edo-period breweries, their brewing halls framed in massive timber.
Inawashiro
Inawashiro Rural Landscape
Mt Bandai reflected in flooded rice fields - one of Tohoku's defining compositions.
FukushimaArchitectureMishima
Tadami Line Bridges
Arched railway bridges over a gorge, drawing photographers who treat the train as part of the composition.
Mishima
Okuaizu Woven Craft
Three weaving traditions using mountain vines and grasses, kept alive as winter handwork.
Fukushima
Stone Guardians of Fukushima
Guardian lions at local shrines, a record of provincial stonemasons' skill.
FukushimaContemporary ArtIwaki
Spa Resort Hawaiians Hula
A closing coal town turned its mine water into a resort; the first dancers were the miners' daughters.
FukushimaArchitectureShirakawa
Komine Castle
Its turret rebuilt in real timber; after the 2011 quake the stone walls were reassembled stone by numbered stone.
FukushimaArchitectureNihonmatsu
Kasumigajo Park
The Nihonmatsu castle site, its restored gate standing among meticulously trained pines.
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AIST Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute FREA
An AIST research institute in Koriyama. It researches renewable energy such as solar, wind and hydrogen.
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Fukushima Robot Test Field
A robot testing ground in Minamisoma. Drones and disaster response robots can be tested in real environments.
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Fukushima High-Tech Plaza
A public testing and research institute of the prefecture. It supports the lacquerware of Aizu and the robot industry of Hamadori.
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Fukushima Agricultural Technology Centre
The prefecture's agricultural research institute. After the earthquake disaster it also took on research into suppressing the transfer of radioactive materials.
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Fukushima Forestry Research Centre
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with forest decontamination and wood use.