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岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Tendaiji

二戸市県央

Setouchi Jakucho served as its abbot. One of the oldest temples in northern Japan.

岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Ozaki Jinja

釜石市県央

A shrine that guards the Sanriku fisheries. It was rebuilt after the tsunami.

岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Nobutai (Chusonji)

平泉町県南

The guardian shrine of Chusonji. Its thatched Noh stage is an Important Cultural Property.

岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Iwatesan

八幡平市県央

Called Nanbu Kata-Fuji, the one-sided Fuji. The mountain behind the prefecture's name.

岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Tachibana Bishamondo

北上市県南

It preserves one of the largest Tobatsu Bishamonten figures in Japan.

岩手県 · Shrines & temples

Kyojoji

盛岡市県央

A temple with long ties to the Nanbu clan.

岩手県 · Tourism

Esashi Fujiwara

奥州市県南

A site with reconstructed Heian architecture, where the world of the Northern Fujiwara can be walked through.

岩手県 · Tourism

Genbikei

一関市県南

A place of worship along the gorge, known for the "flying dango".

岩手県 · Tourism

Ryusendo

岩泉町県央

One of the three great limestone caves of Japan. Its underground lake was long an object of dread.

岩手県 · Tourism

Genbikei

一関市県南

Dango are sent across from the far bank in a basket: the "flying dango".

岩手県 · Tourism

Geibikei

一関市県南

Limestone walls a hundred metres high. Boatmen pole their way upstream.

岩手県 · Tourism

Sansa Odori

盛岡市県央

It holds the world record for the number of Japanese drums played at once.

岩手県 · Tourism

Chagu Chagu Umakko

滝沢市県央

Horses in full harness walk to the sound of bells. A festival of Nanbu horse country.

岩手県 · Tourism

Koiwai Farm

雫石町県央

A private farm at the foot of Mount Iwate. Twenty-one buildings, the cowsheds among them, are Important Cultural Properties.

岩手県 · Tourism

Hachimantai

八幡平市県央

Walls of snow appear when the road is cleared in spring. It runs at 1,600 metres.

岩手県 · Tourism

Tono Densho-en

遠野市県南

Magariya farmhouses were moved here to keep the folk tales alive. The Okaiko-do hall enshrines a thousand Oshirasama figures.

岩手県 · Tourism

Nambu Ironware

奥州市県南

Iron is poured into sand moulds. The water is said to taste sweeter for it, and the ware now sells well abroad.

岩手県 · Tourism

Tenshochi

北上市県南

Ten thousand cherry trees along the Kitakami river, one of the finest avenues in northern Japan.

岩手県 · Tourism

Ryusen Shindo

岩泉町県央

A limestone cave turned into a museum in its own right.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Iwate Museum of Art

盛岡市県央

Built around three artists from Iwate: the avant-gardist Yorozu Tetsugoro, the urban painter Shunsuke Matsumoto, and the marble sculptor Yasutake Funa…

岩手県 · Art & museums

Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum of Art

花巻市県央

The birthplace museum of the painter who first brought Fauvism and Cubism into Japanese art.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Iwate Bank Red Brick Building

盛岡市県央

The only surviving Tohoku work by Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Iwate Prefectural Public Hall

盛岡市県央

A 1927 civic hall by the architect of Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium, still in daily use.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Iwate Prefectural Museum

盛岡市県央

The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.