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Iwate Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.
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Morioka History and Culture Museum
Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.
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Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
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Chusonji Konjikido
A hall entirely covered in gold leaf, inlaid with mother-of-pearl - the sum of Heian craft in one building.
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Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center
Finds from the seat of the Northern Fujiwara, whose century of rule made Hiraizumi a rival to Kyoto.
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Takkoku no Iwaya
A hall wedged into a cliff hollow, beside a Buddha's face carved into the rock wall.
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Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
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Tono Municipal Museum
Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.
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Hanamaki City Museum
Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.
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Rikuzentakata City Museum
A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.
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Ofunato City Museum
Set among the shell mounds of the ria coast, showing what Jomon people ate and the tools they used.
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Hachimantai City Museum
On mountain worship around Hachimantai and the tools of those who lived by the peaks.
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Morioka Hachimangu Treasures
Armour dedicated by the Nambu lords, and the carved heads of the autumn festival floats.
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Yanaginogosho Site
Tens of thousands of disposable earthenware dishes reveal the scale of feasting at the Fujiwara seat.