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  • Hachimantai City Museum
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    Iwate Hachimantai-shi Kamasuda 230
    This museum is located in Kamasuda, Hachimantai City. It houses a collection of materials about the culture and history of the old town, which grew up as a key transport center leading to Tsugaru and Akita. Its four permanent exhibitions are “Life and Culture in the Appikawa and Yoneshiro Watersheds,” “Lacquerware: Beauty in the Midst of Everyday Life,” “Carrying Past Ways of Life into the Present Day,” and “Literature, the Jomon Era, and Skiing.” Other exhibits include specially produced Appi lacquerware, everyday goods from the past, and items connected with Kojun, the 15th great high priest of Kan’eiji Temple Gokoku-in.

    It was a great place to see Japanese ancient histories and their old stuff. There are many sections by each era, starting from Jomon period. The most fascinating things are Appi Urushi bowls and...

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  • Mori no Yakata Woody
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    Iwate Iwate-gun Kuzumakimachi Ekari 1-95-21
    "Located about 40 minutes via National Route 340 from the Hachinohe Expressway’s Kunohe Interchange, this community facility on the southern slope of the prefectural nature park Hiraniwa Kogen is along National Route 281 with the theme of ""interactions between trees, greenery and culture.” The wooden building is made mainly of local Japanese larch and Japanese red pine, and you can fully enjoy the goodness of wood with its characteristic structure. There is a store that sells Kuzumaki wine inside where you can sample all products for free. The adjoining Charcoal Science Museum has exhibits on the charcoal manufacturing process and futuristic depictions."
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  • Ishigami no Oka Museum of Art
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    Iwate Iwate-gun Iwatemachi Itsukaichi 10-121-21
    Located about 30 minutes towards Ninohe on National Route 4 from the Tohoku Expressway’s Takizawa Interchange, it opened as the first outdoor sculpture museum in Iwate Prefecture, and is next to Roadside Station Ishigaminooka. You can enjoy outdoor exhibitions where you can see nature throughout the four seasons and sculptures, and special exhibitions centered on artists related to Iwate. There is a lavender garden in the outdoor exhibition hall, and about 20,000 plants are in full bloom from late June to early July, when lavender fair is also held. It also holds various workshops including one for dried flowers. In addition, it is certified as a “Koibito no Seichi” (Lover’s Sanctuary). (The outdoor exhibition hall will be closed until early summer of 2020 due to renovation work)
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  • Ninohe City Civic Center
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    Iwate Ninohe-shi Ishikiridokoro Niwatari 6-2
    This cultural facility complex is located in Niwatari, Ishikiridokoro, Ninohe City. In addition to a 132-seat hall, it has meeting rooms, culture rooms and Japanese-style rooms. In addition, it adjoins the “Shigeo Fukuda Design Museum” exhibiting works by the graphic designer Shigeo Fukuda, and the “Tanakadate Aikitsu Memorial Science Museum” honoring the Iwate-born physicist Prof. Tanakadate Aikitsu.
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  • Matsukawa Geothermal Museum (PR facility of Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant)
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    Iwate Hachimantai-shi
    This exhibition facility is located in Matsuoyoriki, Hachimantai City. It is attached to the Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant, Japan's first commercial geothermal power plant, and displays images and panels that explain the mechanisms of geothermal power generation. The huge power plant cooling tower that can be seen from on-site is also impressive.
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  • Garden Park
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    Iwate Hachimantai-shi Hirakasa 2-6-333
    "This botanical garden is located in Hachimantai City, Iwate Prefecture. Visitors can enjoy seasonal flowers and the changing scenery of the four seasons as well as get up close to 1,200 varieties of flowers and trees planted within the extensive park. ""Mofumofu Animal Land"", home to alpaca, rabbits and ponies, is also popular. with visitors. Entry to the park with small-sized dogs is allowed."
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  • Goshono Jomon Museum
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    Iwate Ninohe-gun Ichinohemachi Iwadate Goshono 2
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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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