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岩手県 · Art & museums

Ishigami-no-oka Museum of Art

岩手町県央

Stone sculptures scattered over a hillside, framed against the Kitakami mountains.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Tekiseisha

二戸市県央

In the town that taps over 70 percent of Japan's lacquer, including the sap used to repair national treasures.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Tendaiji

二戸市県央

One of Tohoku's oldest mountain temples, with a Heian Kannon carved from a single katsura log.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kuji Amber Museum

久慈市県央

Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Iron and Steel Museum

釜石市県央

In the town where modern Japanese steelmaking began, linked to the World Heritage Hashino blast furnace.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Hashino Iron Mine

釜石市県央

The oldest surviving Western-style blast furnace remains in Japan, deep in the mountains.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Rikuzentakata City Museum

陸前高田市県南

A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Ofunato City Museum

大船渡市県南

Set among the shell mounds of the ria coast, showing what Jomon people ate and the tools they used.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Miyako Kitakami Folk Museum

宮古市県央

Tools of mountain life in the Kitakami range, from charcoal burning to hunting.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Koiwai Farm Buildings

雫石町県央

Twenty-one farm buildings designated Important Cultural Properties, many still in daily use.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Ogal Project

紫波町県央

A public-private development built from local timber, studied nationwide as a model.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Appi Lacquerware Workshop

八幡平市県央

A workshop that revived the lost Appi lacquer tradition, working from raw wood to final coat.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Hachimantai City Museum

八幡平市県央

On mountain worship around Hachimantai and the tools of those who lived by the peaks.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka Castle Stone Walls

盛岡市県央

A rare all-stone castle in Tohoku; the granite walls remain though the buildings are gone.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Nanshoso

盛岡市県央

A mine owner's villa, its rooms opened deliberately toward the pond garden.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka Hachimangu Treasures

盛岡市県央

Armour dedicated by the Nambu lords, and the carved heads of the autumn festival floats.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka Sansa Odori

盛岡市県央

Holder of a world record for simultaneous drumming, a river of matching yukata down the avenue.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Chagu Chagu Umakko

滝沢市県央

A hundred horses walk 15 km in hand-made harnesses hung with bells.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Yanaginogosho Site

平泉町県南

Tens of thousands of disposable earthenware dishes reveal the scale of feasting at the Fujiwara seat.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Zaimokucho Yoichi

盛岡市県央

A weekly street market lined with monuments to Kenji Miyazawa.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kanjizaio-in Ruins

平泉町県南

Only the Pure Land garden survives of a temple built by the wife of Fujiwara no Motohira.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Genbikei

一関市県南

A gorge of water-carved rock, famous for dumplings delivered across it by basket and rope.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Nambu Chest

二戸市県央

Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Konyacho, Morioka

盛岡市県央

The old indigo dyers' quarter, where Edo-period townhouses still trade as shops.