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宮城県 · Art & museums

Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum

蔵王町県南

In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Murata Storehouse Town

村田町県南

A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tome Education Museum

登米市県北

An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tome Police Museum

登米市県北

A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Former Yubikan

大崎市県北

One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Naruko Kokeshi

大崎市県北

The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Naruko Lacquerware

大崎市県北

Wiped lacquer that keeps the grain visible, grown from the same woodturning trade as kokeshi.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shiroishi Castle

白石市県南

Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Yajiro Kokeshi Village

白石市県南

Yajiro kokeshi wear thick lathe-turned rings on the head, recognisable at a glance.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shiroishi Washi

白石市県南

Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Horaguchi Family Residence

名取市仙台

A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Tanabata Festival

仙台市仙台

Three thousand paper streamers, each shopping street spending a year making its own.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Akiu Falls and Rairaikyo

仙台市仙台

One of Japan's three great waterfalls, beside a gorge carved into sculptural forms by water.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Castle Ruins

仙台市仙台

The Date clan's castle, which never had a keep; its high stone walls and equestrian statue stand instead.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai 3 Gallery

仙台市仙台

A private gallery that has long given young Tohoku artists their first solo shows.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Steles

仙台市仙台

A shrine precinct crowded with inscribed stones, a small forest of calligraphy.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tohoku University Museum

仙台市仙台

The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Literature Museum

仙台市仙台

Its first director was the playwright Hisashi Inoue; manuscripts are shown as calligraphy as much as text.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shichigahama International Village

七ヶ浜町三陸沿岸

A theatre and gallery kept by a town of 20,000, which served as a shelter after the 2011 disaster.

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Kesennuma Inner Bay Buildings

気仙沼市県北

The lost heart of a port town rebuilt in low timber structures, now studied as recovery design.

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Onagawa Renga-michi

女川町三陸沿岸

From Shigeru Ban's station a single promenade runs straight to the sea - a whole town recomposed.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Minamisanriku Sansan Shopping Village

南三陸町三陸沿岸

Kengo Kuma built this market street from local cedar, long low roofs on raised ground.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kakuda Local Museum

角田市県南

Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.

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Watari Local Museum

亘理町県南

Keeps records of Date Shigezane, one of Masamune's chief retainers, and restores tsunami-damaged material.