FukushimaShrines & TemplesIwaki
Shiramizu Amidado
The only National Treasure building in Fukushima, standing within a Pure Land garden.
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Tsurugajo Inari
It stood here before Tsuruga Castle was built. It burned with the castle and was rebuilt.
Nihonmatsu
Nihonmatsu Jinja
The lantern festival of Nihonmatsu is one of the three great lantern festivals of Japan.
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FukushimaNature & SceneryMiharu
Miharu Takizakura
A weeping cherry said to be more than a thousand years old. One of the three great cherry trees of Japan, and the tree itself has long been revered.
Iwaki
Nakoso no Seki
One of the three barriers of the north. A frontier place written into poetry for centuries.
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Nisshinkan
The site of the Aizu domain school. The Ju no Okite was the code for the sons of samurai.
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Tsuruga-jo
It withstood a month-long siege in the Boshin War. A keep with red tiles.
FukushimaArchitectureShimogo
Ouchi-juku
Thatched houses line both sides of the road. A post town on the Aizu Nishi Kaido.
FukushimaNature & SceneryKitashiobara
Goshikinuma
A group of ponds formed by the eruption of Mount Bandai. Each holds water of a different colour.
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Lake Inawashiro
The fourth largest lake in Japan. Called the mirror of heaven, it reflects Mount Bandai.
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Miharu Takizakura
A weeping cherry more than a thousand years old, one of the three great cherry trees of Japan.
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Hanamiyama
A flower farmer opened his own hillside to the public without charge. A paradise, in Fukushima.
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Nanukamachi
Western-style buildings and storehouses from the Taisho era. The street runs on from Nanukamachi Station.
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Soma Nomaoi
Five hundred mounted warriors in full armour. It is said to have run for a thousand years.
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Tsuchiyu Kokeshi
One of the three birthplaces of the kokeshi doll. The patterns are drawn on the lathe.
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Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.
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Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.
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Fukushima Museum
Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.