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  • Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center
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    4.0
    87 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Nishiwaigunhiraizumichou Hiraizumi Hanadate 44
    This free facility introduces the history and culture of Hiraizumi in an understandable way through wall panels and videos. Items such as documents related to Hiraizumi’s World Heritage sites and articles recovered from the ground during excavation projects are displayed. Paying a visit before sightseeing will deepen your understanding of Hiraizumi’s history and culture and make for a more enjoyable visit. Audio guides that support four languages are also available for use by foreign visitors.

    If you have time, start here to understand the 100 years when Hiraizumi was the most important center of Japan. Chusonji is the head temple of Tendai Buddhism in northeast Japan and it was founded...

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  • Morioka History and Culture Museum
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    4.0
    50 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Moriokashi Uchimaru 1-50
    This museum that opened in 2011 is located inside Morioka Castle Park in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture. You can see exhibited documents related to the history and culture of Morioka. In addition, it regularly holds various events such as workshops, seasonal events and Morioka Sansa Odori performances. It is not only visited by local residents but also many tourists.

    This museum took us no more than 30 minutes to go through. I went mainly for the armour and clothing, which were beatiful. The lack of English means that its hard for english speakers to fully...

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  • Morioka Takuboku & Kenji Museum
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    4.0
    36 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Moriokashi Nakanohashidori 1-1-25
    A museum dedicated to Takuboku Ishikawa and Kenji Miyazawa. These two historic figures spent their youths in Morioka City during the Meiji and Taisho periods, and the museum presents materials relating to Morioka City during those times. The museum building, completed in 1910, was once the Dai Kuju Bank head office and is designated a National Important Cultural Property.

    啄木と賢治の短い一生の記録が作品と一緒に展示してある。2人とも一生けん命、ひたむきにまじめに、そして少し下手に生きた足跡に触れることができた。

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  • Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum
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    4.5
    12 Reviews
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    Iwate Rikuzentakata-shi Kesencho

    Alongside Minimisanriku, Onagawa and, most tragically of all, Okawa perhaps nowhere demonstrates the destructive power of the tsunami that struck the Sanriku coastline after the Great Eastern...

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  • Kamaishi City Iron and Steel History Museum
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    4.0
    25 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Kamaishishi Odairachou 3-12-7
    This history museum is located in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture. The birthplace of modern steelmaking, it is a facility where you can learn about the history of steel. In addition to exhibiting models of full-sized blast furnaces, they also show the progress of steelmaking using images, sounds and lights. Because there are many visual devices, both children and adults can learn about steel while having fun.

    So so. It is a little bit tireing to climb up the road to this place. If you drive then no problem. I enjoy the movie and the panels and I should thank a gentleman keeping my heavy backpack while I...

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  • Tono Castle Shitamachi Museum
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    3.5
    17 Reviews
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    Iwate Tono-shi Chuodori 4-6
    This museum introduces the castle town of Tono. In the Edo period, the area flourished as a castle town under the lordship of Tono Nanbu, of Mutsu Province. The museum, which was designed in the image of the castle's white earth walls, has exhibits of various artifacts from Tono Nanbu. There are also a wide variety of items including armor, hanging scrolls, swords, boxes containing letters, and shell collections. There are also historical materials on display that date from ancient times to the modern age.

    遠野城下町資料館入館料は510円で、とおの物語の館との共通です。遠野城下町資料館は小さな資料館で、展示品も少なく、遠野城下町資料館単独だったら無料にしてもよいと思う展示内容でした。

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  • Oshu City Warrior Residence Museum
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
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    Iwate Oshu-shi Mizusawa Kichikoji 43
    A restored Edo period samurai residence on Ote-dori Street west of JR Mizusawa Station. It is said to have been the residence of Uchida Kannojo, an imperial guard. It's counted as one of the most prestigious samurai residences in Oshu City. About 29 meters wide and 55 meters deep, it features a thatch roofed yakuimon style front gate. Oshu City has designated it a cultural asset to pass on how senior samurai lived in the region during the late Edo period. The adjacent Samurai Residence Museum has an exhibition of valuable historical materials and offers guidance for exploring the area.

    この奥州市武家住宅資料館は水沢駅から北西に20分強の場所にあります。武家屋敷の北側に奥州市役所があります。そこがかつての水沢城です。その城の一部が保存されています。この水沢は城下町でその名残が少しだけ残っています。

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  • Miyazawa Kenji Dowa Mura (Village of Fairy Tales)
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    Iwate Pref. Hanamakishi Takamatsu 26-19
    An experience-oriented museum dedicated to the fairy tales of Kenji Miyazawa located in Takamatsu, Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture. Surrounded by hills and fields, you’ll feel like you’ve wandered into the world of Miyazawa’s fairy tales in the museum’s charming, magical atmosphere. The Kenji’s School area is divided into five zones themed after the Miyazawa’s works. Other museum facilities include Milky Way Station, the Sky Plaza, Kenji’s Classroom, the Fairy Path, the Owl Path, and the Yamano Soen forest. Visitors are encouraged to slowly stroll the facility’s grounds and enjoy the fairy tale world and various sculptures scattered here and there. The nearest station is Shin-Hanamaki Station.
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  • Folktale and Storytelling Center
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    Iwate Pref. Tonoshi Chuoudori 2-11
    This is museum where guests can experience Tono’s world of folklore passed down through the generations through audio and visual exhibits. The facility offers something for both adults and children to enjoy, with a theater, video library, and experience corner. In the Tono-za, a theater that was once used as a sake brewer’s storehouse, visitors can appreciate folk tales told by a professional storyteller and other folk entertainment.
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  • Osako Folk Culture Preservation Center (Hayachine Take Kagura　Denshokan Museum)
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    Iwate Pref. Hanamakishi Ohasamamachiuchikawame 1-2
    "The Hayachimine Kagura Hall, nicknamed the ""Hayachimine Kagura Hall of Folklore,"" is a cultural facility that exhibits traditional performing arts, masks, old documents, and other materials from the town of Osako in Hanamaki City. The kagura stage in the museum is also used for practice by the Take-kagura performers."
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  • Tono Machinaka Doki Dokikan
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    Iwate Tono-shi Shinmachi 5-3
    An earthenware exhibition and community center in an antique renovated Tono storehouse. At the front is ancient earthenware excavated in Tono that's been restored and put on display. The back of the space is a community salon with a sofa where you can take a break while looking at the pottery. There are also rooms for hands-on workshops, community events, and earthenware making programs. A pottery storehouse and a research facility are also on-site, where researchers analyze and organize Tono pottery.
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  • Oshu City Traditional Industries Museum
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    Iwate Oshu-shi Mizusawa Hadacho Ekimae 1-109
    This museum tells the history of Mizusawa, the birthplace of Nanbu ironware. It's located a five-minute walk from JR Mizusawa Esashi Station. There are displays on the process of making ironware and some of the actual equipment that was used. There's also a recreation of an ironware workshop to help you learn more about the tradition and casting process. Major league baseball player Otani Shohei hails from Mizusawa Ward, and there's a Nanbu ironware casting of his hand you can try shaking. Nanbu ironware products and crafts such as wind chimes and iron kettles are available for purchase in their gift shop.
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  • Ishidoriya Museum of History and Folklore
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    Iwate Hanamaki-shi Ishidoriyacho Nakaterabayashi 7-7-1
    A museum about a 15-minute drive from Hanamaki Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway. It has a collection of 1,788 pieces of sake brewing equipment on display assembled with the help of Nanbu master brewers and brewery workers. The collection depicts the history of sake brewing and has been designated a National Important Cultural Property. In addition to an overview of the brewing process, it also displays sake drinking vessels from Japan and around the world, ancient documents, and items from daily life excavated from local sites.
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  • Miyako Kitakamisanchi Museum of Folklore
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    Iwate Miyako-shi Kawai 2-187-1
    This museum introduces the life and wisdom of the Kawai area of Miyako City, where the mountains bring rich blessings, there is little flat ground, and the winter is extremely cold. Mountain equipment from the Kitakami mountains are exhibited in the first exhibition room. In the second exhibition room, there is a reproduction of a Nambu Magariya farmhouse, and items from daily life in villages is stored and on display. The third exhibition room has a reproduction of the Ogawa Clinic's examination room dedicated to mountain area medical care, and introduces the achievements of the predecessors of community health care. Some of the exhibits are designated as national Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties.
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  • Yahaba History and Folklore Museum
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    Iwate Shiwa-gun Yahabacho Nishitokuta 3-188-2
    This museum is located in the Dai 3 Chiwari area of Nishitokuta in Yahaba Town, Shiwa County. It holds exhibits centering on excavated items from sites such as the neighboring Tokutan Castle Ruins, a nationally designated historic site, and Fujisawa Ezomori Kofun in the same town. In addition, the Sasaki family magariya (bent house ) displays folklore materials such as living tools in the building with a unique architectural style of the Nanbu region.
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  • Morioka City Tonan Historical Folklore Museum
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    Iwate Morioka-shi Yuzawa 1-1-38
    This museum is located inside TonanTsudoi Forest in the 1 Chiwari area of Yuzawa, Morioka City. It stores folk materials such as farming tools and daily life tools, historical materials such as ancient documents, materials related to local beliefs, artifacts from ruins, and donated collections such as swords, armor and Ukiyoe woodblock prints. In addition, it also holds special exhibitions and public participation exhibitions.
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  • Shinrin Fureai Gakushukan Forest I
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    Iwate Hachimantai-shi Matsuo Yoriki 1-515-5
    This exhibition facility inside the forest park “Iwate Prefectural Forest” is located in Matsuoyoriki, Hachimantai City. It has exhibits related to forest trees, the relationship between forests and people, and birds that live in the forest. You can also interact directly with trees through playground equipment made with wood from the prefecture, a creative corner where you can experience making handicrafts, and various wooden toys. There is an observation room on the second floor of the facility that can also be used as a rest space.
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  • Hachimantai Matsuo Mine Museum
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    Iwate Hachimantai-shi Kashiwa Dai2-5-6
    This museum is located in Kashiwadai2-Chome, Hachimantai City. It stores and exhibits historical materials related to the Matsuo Mine. The Matsuo Mine developed from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to around 1970 as the sulfur mine with the highest output in Asia, but also became famous for large-scale mining pollution.
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  • Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka and Haiku
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    Iwate Kitakami-shi Hongokucho 2-5-60
    This literary museum inside Shiikanomori Park along National Route 107 is located in Hongoku-cho 2-Chome, Kitakami City. It collects materials related to poetry such as portfolios, reviews and magazines. Besides viewing the materials, you can see the permanent exhibits with a theme that changes each year, and the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Room. In addition, the house of Seison Yamaguchi, a haiku writer from Iwate, has also been dismantled and rebuilt adjacent to the facility.
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  • Miyazawa Kenji Ihatov Museum
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    Iwate Pref. Hanamakishi Takamatsu 1-1-1
    Adjoining the Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum and Miyazawa Kenji Dowa Mura (Village of Fairy Tales), the Ihatov Museum has a library and exhibition space carrying materials related to Kenji Miyazawa as well as a café space; shop corner; and hall and classroom space which can be used for lectures, concerts, and various other events. Here visitors can engage with the world of Kenji Miyazawa in a variety of ways.
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A northern Tohoku prefecture promising peace and quiet, Iwate is sparsely populated, replacing people with snow-capped mountains, history-rich sites, and fields of crops that are to thank for the region’s delicious local cuisine. Meander along the three-city Golden Route, where you’ll visit the grand Buddhist temples of Hiraizumi and the Tono folk villages before tasting the three famed noodle dishes of Morioka.

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