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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 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 Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
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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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Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
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Kakunodate Samurai District
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
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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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Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
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Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
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Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
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Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.
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Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
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Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
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Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.