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Once islands afloat in the sea. An earthquake lifted the land, and they now stand among the rice fields.
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Akita Castle Ruins
The site of the administrative base of Dewa Province, overlapping with the cult of Koshio Jinja.
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Goshogake Onsen
A hot-spring healing retreat remaining in Hachimantai. Its name comes from a legend of a person who prayed for peace in the next life.
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Sedo Matsuri
The rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.
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Hachiman Akita Jinja
It stands on the site of Kubota Castle and enshrines the Satake clan.
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Yokote Kamakura
A water deity is enshrined inside a snow hut. Belief embedded in daily life became a festival as it was.
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Akita Kanto Festival
Akita City's summer festival, about 270 years old. Bamboo poles hung with lanterns are balanced on forehead and hip as bearers move through the streets.
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Nyuto Onsen
Seven hot springs scattered through the valley. Tsuru-no-yu keeps its thatched Edo-period lodging.
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Yokote Kamakura
A water deity is enshrined in a snow hut, and sweet amazake is served inside.
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Hinai Jidori
One of the three great native chicken breeds of Japan. It makes the broth for kiritanpo hotpot.
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Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
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Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
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Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
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Akita Museum of Modern Art
On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.
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Akita Prefectural Museum
Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.
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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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Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
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Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.