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Shiogama Shrine Museum
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.
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Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
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Taga Castle Ruins
The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.
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Ishinomori Manga Museum
A saucer-shaped museum on a river islet for the creator of Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, reopened after the tsunami.
Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki City Museum
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.
Ishinomaki
Sant Juan Bautista Museum
A replica of the ship that carried Hasekura Tsunenaga to Rome. One of the few places to learn the structure of a wooden sailing ship through models and full-size parts.
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Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
MiyagiArt & CraftsKesennuma
Rias Ark Museum of Art
Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.
Zao
Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
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Murata Storehouse Town
A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.
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Tome Education Museum
An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tome Police Museum
A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.
MiyagiArchitectureOsaki
Former Yubikan
One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
MiyagiArt & CraftsOsaki
Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
Osaki
Naruko Lacquerware
Wiped lacquer that keeps the grain visible, grown from the same woodturning trade as kokeshi.
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Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Yajiro Kokeshi Village
Yajiro kokeshi wear thick lathe-turned rings on the head, recognisable at a glance.
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Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
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Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Tanabata Festival
Three thousand paper streamers, each shopping street spending a year making its own.
MiyagiContemporary ArtSendai
Akiu Falls and Rairaikyo
One of Japan's three great waterfalls, beside a gorge carved into sculptural forms by water.
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Sendai Castle Ruins
The Date clan's castle, which never had a keep; its high stone walls and equestrian statue stand instead.
Sendai
Sendai 3 Gallery
A private gallery that has long given young Tohoku artists their first solo shows.
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Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Steles
A shrine precinct crowded with inscribed stones, a small forest of calligraphy.
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