Akita
Former Nara Family Residence
A wealthy farmer's house in the two-gate style unique to Akita; an Important Cultural Property.
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Kakunodate Samurai District
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
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Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
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Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
Yokote
Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
Yuzawa
Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
Oga
Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
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Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.
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