Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum Spots in Hanamaki / Tono Area

  • 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。

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Yama no Sta. Showa no School
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    3.5
    27 Reviews
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    Iwate Hanamaki-shi Kutashizawa Ushikado 86-1

    入場料払ってまではよいかなぁ、、、と言う感じだったので、入り口で辞めときました。 外見もそこまで懐かしさを感じられなかったです。 学校給食を食事として食べれるなら、中に入ろうと思いましたが、駄菓子屋さんだけしかやっていなかったので、中には入りませんでした。

  • Nambumagarikachibaka
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Tonoshi Ayaorichoukamiayaori 1-14

    伝承園には南部曲り家(菊池家)があり、 遠野を治めていた南部家では、直角に曲がった家の形をしており、 母屋から曲がった先は長屋と馬小屋になっていた。 角は土間で煮炊きする竃がありました。 遠野ふるさと村には立派な曲り家がいくつも残っていました。 南部曲り家(千葉家)には帰りに寄りました というより寄るつもりで行くと、何と工事中でした。 数年は見れないとかということでした。

  • Nambushashidenshokan
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Hanamakishi Ishidoriyachounakaterabayashi Dai7chiwari 17-2

    南部杜氏の酒造りの手法や文化について学べる施設です。道具など、迫力ある展示物が楽しめます。お酒の試飲もできました。

  • Sakurachijinkan
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
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    Iwate Pref. Hanamakishi Sakuramachi 4-14

    宮沢賢治、高村光太郎、萬鉄五郎に関する資料を展示するミュージアムです。ちょっと小高いところにあるのですが、「下ノ畑ニ居リマス」の「下ノ畑」はここの下、北上川との間だそうです。もっと大きな施設がほかにもあるのに、なぜここにも作ったのか疑問に思っていましたが、その説明に納得しました。

  • 3.11 higashinippondaishinsai Tono Shikohoshien Museum
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    Iwate Pref. Tonoshi Aozasachounukamae 10-46 Tono Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Center Parking on site
  • Sumitacho Folk customs Museum
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    Iwate Kesen-gun Sumitacho
  • Tono Kura no Michi Gallery
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    Iwate Tono-shi Chuodori 4-28
  • Iwate Prefectural General Education Center
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    Iwate Hanamaki Kitayuguchi Dai 2 Chiwari
  • Hanamaki General Cultural Properties Center
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    Iwate Hanamaki-shi Ohasamamachi Ohasama Dai3-chiwari 39-1
  • Towa Furusato History Museum
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    Iwate Hanamaki-shi Towacho Tsuchizawa 9198

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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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