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Ichinoseki City Museum
Centred on Mokusa swords, an early source of the curved Japanese blade.
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Historic Park Esashi Fujiwara
Full-scale reconstructions of Heian palaces, used repeatedly as a period-drama film set.
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Takano Choei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of a Dutch-studies scholar, showing how Western knowledge was copied under seclusion.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Municipal Museum
Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.
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Tono Story Museum
A museum of storytelling voices, built into an old inn and Yanagita's relocated house.
IwateMuseumsHanamaki
Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum
Manuscripts, minerals and the cello of the poet Kenji Miyazawa, on the slope of Mt Koshio.
Hanamaki
Kenji Ihatov Center
A research centre on Kenji Miyazawa that also stages art and music inspired by his work.
Hanamaki
Hanamaki City Museum
Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.
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Ishigami-no-oka Museum of Art
Stone sculptures scattered over a hillside, framed against the Kitakami mountains.
Ninohe
Tekiseisha
In the town that taps over 70 percent of Japan's lacquer, including the sap used to repair national treasures.
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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.
IwateMuseumsRikuzentakata
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.
IwateArchitectureShizukuishi
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.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple