Tsuruoka
Tatekawa School Carvings
Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.
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YamagataMuseumsKaminoyama
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.
Shirataka
Miyama Washi
Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.
Takahata
Takahata Stone Quarries
Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Armour
Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Hanagasa Festival Hats
Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.
YamagataContemporary ArtYamagata
Zao Snow Monsters
Ice and snow layer onto conifers until they become vast figures - sculpture made by weather.
YamagataContemporary ArtTozawa
Mogami River Boat Route
The route that carried safflower and rice to Kyoto, its banks unrolling like a painted scroll.
Yamagata
Yamagata Forged Blades
Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.
Sagae
Sagae Orchards
Orchards terraced across an alluvial fan, a farmed landscape that changes colour by season.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Silk
One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.
YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Matsugaoka Reclamation Site
Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.
FukushimaArt & CraftsFukushima
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKitashiobara
Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.
FukushimaMuseumsAizuwakamatsu
Fukushima Museum
Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Sazaedo
A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.
FukushimaArchitectureAizuwakamatsu
Tsuruga Castle
The only castle keep in Japan roofed in red tiles - glazed to survive the Aizu frost.
FukushimaArchitectureAizuwakamatsu
Aizu Samurai Residence
A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Lacquerware
Begun when Gamo Ujisato brought lacquerers from Omi; known for auspicious motifs and sprinkled gold.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizuwakamatsu
Akabeko and Aizu Papier-mache
A red papier-mache ox with a nodding head, made to ward off plague - the colour itself is the charm.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizumisato
Aizu Hongo Ware
One of Tohoku's oldest pottery districts, and rare in firing both earthenware and porcelain.
FukushimaArt & CraftsIwaki
Iwaki City Art Museum
A pioneering case of a regional city collecting contemporary art, strong in American work of its own era.
FukushimaMuseumsIwaki
Kusano Shimpei Memorial Museum
A museum for the frog poet, stretched along a ridge so the view becomes part of the display.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple