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Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
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Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
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Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
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Former Saiseikan Hospital
A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.
YamagataArchitectureYamagata
Yamadera Risshakuji
Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Haguro Five-Storey Pagoda
An unpainted five-storey pagoda standing among 400-year-old cedars; the oldest in Tohoku.
YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Dewa Sanzan Shrine
A thatched roof over two metres thick, sheltering the gods of all three sacred mountains at once.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
Sakata
Homma Family Residence
Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.
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Sankyo Rice Warehouses
Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.
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YamagataArchitectureObanazawa
Ginzan Onsen
Wooden inns of the 1920s facing each other across a stream, their plaster walls modelled in relief.
Tsuruoka
Oyama Sake District
Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.
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Kaminoyama Castle Museum
A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.
Nagai
Nagai Waterways
A river-trade town threaded with canals that reach behind the merchant houses themselves.
Takahata
Takahata Stone Quarries
Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.
YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Matsugaoka Reclamation Site
Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Sazaedo
A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.
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Tsuruga Castle
The only castle keep in Japan roofed in red tiles - glazed to survive the Aizu frost.