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OIGEN Factory Shop
A Nanbu ironware maker in Mizusawa, Oshu. A direct-sales shop is attached to the factory.
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Oigen Foundry Casting Technology
A foundry in Oshu. It makes ironware using its pouring and heat-treatment techniques.
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Iwayado Tansu Production Cooperative
The cooperative for Iwayado tansu chests. Nanbu iron fittings are hammered onto a zelkova wood body.
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Iwayado Tansu Fujisato Woodworks
A woodworking shop making Iwayado tansu chests. It combines joinery, lacquering and metal fittings.
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Hidehira-nuri Lacquerware Ochiya
Hidehira-nuri lacquerware from Hiraizumi. It is characterized by the Genji-gumo cloud pattern, in which diamond shapes of gold leaf are set on the lacquer.
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Joboji Lacquer Industry
Lacquer sap is tapped at Joboji in Ninohe. Most of the domestic lacquer used to restore National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties comes from here.
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Michinoku Akane-kai Homespun
Homespun from Morioka. Wool is spun by hand and woven by hand. It began after the war as work for women.
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Nihon Homespun
A homespun maker in Iwate. It handles everything from dyeing to weaving.
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Kokuji Ware Pottery Garden
Pottery in Kuji. It fires Kokuji ware, which is coated with an amber-colored glaze, and visitors can try making pottery.
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Hanamaki Dolls and Hanamaki Kokeshi
Folk toys of Hanamaki. Clay dolls and kokeshi are made. Hanamaki dolls began in the Edo period under the influence of Kyoto's Fushimi dolls.
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Tono Furusato Village Straw Craft
Straw craft in Tono. Visitors can try weaving items such as the horse-shaped Chagu Chagu Umakko.
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Nishiwaga Town Akebi Vine Craft
Akebi vine craft from Nishiwaga. Vines gathered in the mountains are woven into baskets.
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Iwate Kuzumaki Wine
Wild grape wine from Kuzumaki. The town started it as a third-sector, public-private enterprise.
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Sekinoichi Sake Brewery and Iwate Kura Beer
A sake brewery in Ichinoseki. It makes both sake and craft beer, and opens its brewery buildings to visitors.
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Asabiraki Showa Asahi-gura Brewery
A sake brewery in Morioka. You can tour a brewing storehouse completed in 1988, where brewing tools remain.
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Nanbu Bijin
A sake brewery in Ninohe. It went overseas early, and exports account for a high share of its sales.
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Baeren Brewery
A craft beer brewery in Morioka. It began by taking over old equipment from Germany.
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Iwate Agricultural Research Center
The prefecture's agricultural research institute. It breeds varieties of paddy rice and upland crops.
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Iwate Prefectural Forestry Technology Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the cultivation of Japanese red pine and Japanese larch.
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Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center
The prefecture's fisheries research institute. It deals with stock enhancement and aquaculture, and with techniques for wakame seaweed and abalone.
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Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Science Museum
A fisheries science museum in Miyako. It presents the fishing industry of Sanriku.
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Moguranpia Aquarium and Petroleum Culture Hall
An aquarium in Kuji. It uses an underground tunnel of the national petroleum stockpiling base as it is, and also exhibits how petroleum stockpiling works.