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Top 5 sights in Hanamaki

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   Michinoku Folklore Village

   An open-air museum opened at Kitakami in 1992, with farmhouses, a watermill and thatched dwellings brought from across the Tohoku region and set on a wooded hillside in the arrangement of an old village.

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   Ezuriko Kofun Cluster

   A group of late Kofun-period burial mounds at Kitakami in Iwate prefecture, spread across four locations. They were designated a national historic site in 1979 and the area was extended the following year.

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   Kabayama Site

   A Jōmon site at Inase in Kitakami in Iwate prefecture, read as a settlement and ritual place. It has been a national historic site since 1977.

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   Tenshōchi

   A riverside park at Kitakami where some ten thousand cherry trees line two kilometres of the Kitakami bank. The blossom festival in late April brings crowds to boat rides and horse carriages under the tunnel of flowers.

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   Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka and Haiku

   A museum of modern Japanese poetry at Kitakami, opened in 1990 and covering free verse, tanka and haiku together. Manuscripts, first editions and the desks of poets fill the galleries, with a large research library behind them.

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