MiyagiArchitectureTome
Tome Police Museum
A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.
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MiyagiArchitectureOsaki
Former Yubikan
One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
MiyagiArchitectureShiroishi
Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.
MiyagiArchitectureNatori
Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
MiyagiArchitectureSendai
Sendai Castle Ruins
The Date clan's castle, which never had a keep; its high stone walls and equestrian statue stand instead.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
Kesennuma
Kesennuma Inner Bay Buildings
The lost heart of a port town rebuilt in low timber structures, now studied as recovery design.
MiyagiArchitectureOnagawa
Onagawa Renga-michi
From Shigeru Ban's station a single promenade runs straight to the sea - a whole town recomposed.
MiyagiArchitectureMinamisanriku
Minamisanriku Sansan Shopping Village
Kengo Kuma built this market street from local cedar, long low roofs on raised ground.
MiyagiMuseumsKakuda
Kakuda Local Museum
Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.
Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.
Shiogama
Shiogama Market and Streets
A town where shrine approach and harbour meet on a slope, its storehouses and market still in use.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
Akita
Former Nara Family Residence
A wealthy farmer's house in the two-gate style unique to Akita; an Important Cultural Property.
AkitaContemporary ArtAkita
Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Kakunodate Samurai District
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
Semboku
Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
Yokote
Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
Yuzawa
Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
Oga
Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
AkitaArchitectureNoshiro
Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.