Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Iwate Prefecture
Detourmap lists 30 places in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Mount Iwate. 26 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 30
- Oldest
- Takkoku-no-Iwaya 801
- Little known
- 26 of 30
- Share of Japan
- 2%
Iwate Prefecture 30
All 30, best known first.
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7.Miracle Pine Tree
Nature · Hidden gem
The lone surviving tree of the Takata Pine Forest, which suffered deadly damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami in 2011
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9.Akkadō
Nature · Hidden gem
Longest cave in Japan, a limestone cave in Iwaizumi Town, Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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14.Jōdogahama
Nature · Hidden gem
Part of the Rikuchū Kaigan National Park, in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
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17.Michinoku Folklore Village
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Open-air folk museum in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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24.Takadachi Gikeidō
Archaeological · 17th century · Hidden gem
Archeological site in Hiraizumi, Japan
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30.Yubunezawa Stone Circle
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Takizawa, Iwate, Japan
Elsewhere in Japan
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Iwate Prefecture?
Mount Iwate. Mountain in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Iwate Prefecture?
30: 16 nature & landscapes and 14 archaeological & historic sites. 26 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Iwate Prefecture?
Takkoku-no-Iwaya, dated to 801. 4 of the 30 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Iwate Prefecture here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Iwate Prefecture if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Iwate Prefecture is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.