HokkaidoMuseumsSapporo
Hokkaido Museum
A red brick building known locally as the forest chalet, giving the fullest account in the province of Ainu history and colonisation.
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HokkaidoMuseumsSapporo
Hokkaido University Museum
Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.
HokkaidoMuseumsAsahikawa
Asahikawa City Museum
Built around Kamikawa Ainu material - dugout canoes and ritual objects presented as working tools rather than curiosities.
HokkaidoMuseumsAbashiri
Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.
HokkaidoMuseumsHakodate
Hakodate City Museum
One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.
HokkaidoMuseumsHakodate
Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.
HokkaidoMuseumsShiraoi
National Ainu Museum
Japan's only national museum of an indigenous people, presenting Ainu pattern and carving as living practice rather than ethnography.
HokkaidoMuseumsBiratori
Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum
Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Sannai-Maruyama Site
A Jomon settlement occupied for 1,700 years; its clay figures and lacquered combs are the oldest layer of design in Japan.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse
Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Aomori Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.
AomoriMuseumsHirosaki
Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Korekawa Jomon Museum
Holds the National Treasure clay figure with its hands pressed together, and lacquer work showing how far Jomon craft had gone.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
AomoriMuseumsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Museum
Lantern figures as tall as a seven-storey building, on view all year - and rebuilt from scratch in the same hall each season.
AomoriMuseumsTsugaru
Kamegaoka Site
Where the goggle-eyed clay figure was found; the domain prized pots turned up here as early as the 1600s.
Tsugaru
Tsugaru Jomon Museum Calco
Finds from the Kamegaoka site shown locally, and evidence of how elaborate late Jomon vessels had become.
AomoriMuseumsKuroishi
Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum
Four thousand kokeshi from across Japan; only by lining them up does it become clear how differently each lineage draws a face.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Namioka Castle Ruins
A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Komakino Site
A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.
Misawa
Misawa History Museum
In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.
IwateMuseumsMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.
IwateMuseumsMorioka
Morioka History and Culture Museum
Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.
IwateMuseumsIchinohe
Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.