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宮城県 · Art & museums

Shiogama Shrine Museum

塩竈市三陸沿岸

Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tohoku History Museum

多賀城市三陸沿岸

Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Taga Castle Ruins

多賀城市三陸沿岸

The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ishinomori Manga Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

A saucer-shaped museum on a river islet for the creator of Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, reopened after the tsunami.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ishinomaki City Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sant Juan Bautista Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

A full-scale replica of the galleon that carried Hasekura Tsunenaga to Rome.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ogatsu Inkstone

石巻市三陸沿岸

Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Rias Ark Museum of Art

気仙沼市県北

Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.

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.