Watari
Watari Local Museum
Keeps records of Date Shigezane, one of Masamune's chief retainers, and restores tsunami-damaged material.
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Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.
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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.
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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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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.
Semboku
Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
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Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
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Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
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Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
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Itaya Basketry
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households that became a traditional craft of Akita Prefecture.
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Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
Yokote
Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.