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Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
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Sendai Literature Museum
Its first director was the playwright Hisashi Inoue; manuscripts are shown as calligraphy as much as text.
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Shichigahama International Village
A theatre and gallery kept by a town of 20,000, which served as a shelter after the 2011 disaster.
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.
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Kakuda Local Museum
Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.
Watari
Watari Local Museum
Keeps records of Date Shigezane, one of Masamune's chief retainers, and restores tsunami-damaged material.
Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.
MiyagiContemporary ArtShiogama
Shiogama Market and Streets
A town where shrine approach and harbour meet on a slope, its storehouses and market still in use.
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Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
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Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
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Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Museum of Modern Art
On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.
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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.
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Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
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Akita Kanto Festival
Fifty-kilo lantern poles balanced on foreheads and hips, standing in for ears of rice.
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Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Akita Silver Filigree
Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.
Akita
Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
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Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
Akita
BIYONG POINT
A city gallery run by Akita University of Art, alternating student and invited shows.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple