Location: Kesennuma
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Kesennuma is a city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2017, the city had an estimated population of 65,367 and a population density of 197 inhabitants per square kilometre in 26,429 households.
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1. Kesennuma Uminoichi Shark Museum
2. Shishiori Kinzan Museum (Gold Mine)
3. Takeyama Rice Retailer House and Museum of Rice Cookery
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The Takeyama Rice Retailer was founded in 1867, and moved to its present location in 1900. It burnt down in big fires in the years 1914 and 1929, and was rebuilt twice. It was flooded by water around 3m deep in the 2011 disaster tsunami. The eave soffit was carried away, but the greater part of the building remained and was restored. The two-story store completed in 1930 and the main building have been reconstructed by taking away pieces of the construction material one by one and placing them in a different position. The warehouse remains in the same position as before, with the part eroded by the tsunami restored. During the restoration, a new one-story annex connecting the main building and the warehouse has been constructed. The old stone warehouse is now a mini-museum, displaying the family's tableware from the Meiji and Taisho eras along with rice cookers, old and new, and on the second floor an archive about foods and rice.
4. Ice Aquarium
5. Otani Mine History Museum
6. Kesennuma Kanayama Shikaori Museum
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