MiyagiArchitectureSendai
Sendai Mediatheque
Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.
Entries in Miyagi25 entries
349 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
25ShowingMiyagiArea12Themes
INSTAGRAM / 6
Instagram from Miyagi (official accounts)
No posts linked to this category have been collected yet. Showing posts from the prefecture's official accounts, rotating every minute.
25 entries / page 1 of 2
MiyagiArchitecture
MiyagiArchitectureSendai
Osaki Hachimangu
Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.
MiyagiArchitecture
MiyagiArchitectureSendai
Miyagi Prefectural Library
By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.
MiyagiArt & Crafts
MiyagiArchitecture
MiyagiArchitecture
MiyagiMuseumsTagajo
Tohoku History Museum
Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.
MiyagiArt & CraftsTagajo
Taga Castle Ruins
The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.
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.
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.
MiyagiArchitectureShiroishi
Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.
MiyagiArchitectureNatori
Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
MiyagiArchitectureSendai
Sendai Castle Ruins
The Date clan's castle, which never had a keep; its high stone walls and equestrian statue stand instead.
MiyagiMuseumsSendai
Tohoku University Museum
The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.
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.
Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.