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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MiyagiArt & CraftsIshinomaki
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.
MiyagiArchitectureMurata
Murata Storehouse Town
A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.
MiyagiArchitectureTome
Tome Education Museum
An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.
MiyagiArchitectureTome
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.
MiyagiArchitectureShiroishi
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.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
MiyagiArchitectureNatori
Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
MiyagiContemporary ArtSendai
Akiu Falls and Rairaikyo
One of Japan's three great waterfalls, beside a gorge carved into sculptural forms by water.
Sendai
Sendai 3 Gallery
A private gallery that has long given young Tohoku artists their first solo shows.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Steles
A shrine precinct crowded with inscribed stones, a small forest of calligraphy.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Sendai Literature Museum
Its first director was the playwright Hisashi Inoue; manuscripts are shown as calligraphy as much as text.
MiyagiContemporary ArtShichigahama
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.
MiyagiMuseumsKakuda
Kakuda Local Museum
Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.