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World Heritage Sites in Tohoku

4 of Japan's 27 World Heritage sites are in the Tohoku region (serial properties that span several regions appear in each).

• Shirakami-Sanchi 白神山地
  1993 · Natural · Aomori, Akita
• Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land 平泉
  2011 · Cultural · Iwate · 5 components
• Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining 明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業
  2015 · Cultural · Yamaguchi, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Saga, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Iwate, Shizuoka · 23 components
• Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan 北海道・北東北の縄文遺跡群
  2021 · Cultural · Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Akita · 17 components