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Kuji Amber Museum
Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.
IwateMuseumsKamaishi
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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Rikuzentakata City Museum
A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.
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Ofunato City Museum
Set among the shell mounds of the ria coast, showing what Jomon people ate and the tools they used.
Miyako
Miyako Kitakami Folk Museum
Tools of mountain life in the Kitakami range, from charcoal burning to hunting.
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Koiwai Farm Buildings
Twenty-one farm buildings designated Important Cultural Properties, many still in daily use.
Shiwa
Ogal Project
A public-private development built from local timber, studied nationwide as a model.
Hachimantai
Appi Lacquerware Workshop
A workshop that revived the lost Appi lacquer tradition, working from raw wood to final coat.
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Hachimantai City Museum
On mountain worship around Hachimantai and the tools of those who lived by the peaks.
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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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IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Hachimangu Treasures
Armour dedicated by the Nambu lords, and the carved heads of the autumn festival floats.
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Yanaginogosho Site
Tens of thousands of disposable earthenware dishes reveal the scale of feasting at the Fujiwara seat.
Ninohe
Nambu Chest
Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.
IwateArchitectureMorioka
Konyacho, Morioka
The old indigo dyers' quarter, where Edo-period townhouses still trade as shops.
Iwate
Iwate Industrial Research Institute
A public testing and research institution of the prefecture. It supports the casting of Nanbu ironware and metalworking in the Kitakami River basin.
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Morioka City Central Wholesale Market
The central wholesale market of Morioka. As an inland market, it handles fish from the Sanriku coast and fruit and vegetables from the prefecture.
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Ofunato City Fish Market
The fish market of Ofunato. It handles landings of Pacific saury and mackerel.
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Kojiya Motomiya
A koji shop in Hachimantai. Visitors can prepare rice koji and experience making miso.
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Iwachu Ironware Museum
A museum attached to a Nanbu ironware factory. Visitors can see the process from casting mold to finished iron kettle.
Iwate
Suzuki Morihisa Workshop
A Nanbu ironware workshop in Morioka. Founded in 1625, it has passed down metal-casting techniques from generation to generation.