Okinawa
Okinawa Cellular and Communications Infrastructure
Okinawa Cellular and communications infrastructure. The islands are linked by submarine cables and radio.
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Okinawa
Okinawa Electric Power Yoshinoura Thermal Power Station
Yoshinoura Thermal Power Station in Nakagusuku. It supplies the electricity of the main island. Okinawa is not connected to other prefectures by transmission lines.
Okinawa
Okinawa Electric Power Miyako No. 2 Power Station
The No. 2 power station on Miyako. It supports the power grid of the remote island.
Okinawa
Underground Dams of Southern Okinawa Island
Underground dams in the south of the main island. On an island where rivers are short and water drains away, cutoff walls are built underground to store water.
Okinawa
Miyakojima Underground Dam Museum
The underground dam museum on Miyakojima. It conveys the civil engineering of underground dams, which are rare even in the world.
OkinawaCraft ExperiencesHokkaido
Notoro Lake Coral Grass Colony and Notoro Lake Coral Grass Festival
A colony of glasswort along Lake Notoro in Abashiri. In autumn the shoreline turns red.
Hokkaido
Susukino / Susukino Matsuri
Sapporo's nightlife district. At the August festival, portable shrines and dancers fill the streets.
Hokkaido
Goryokaku Park and Hakodate Goryokaku Festival
Japan's first Western-style star fort. It was the last stage of the Hakodate War and is now open as a park.
HokkaidoNature & SceneryHokkaido
Hokuryu-cho Himawari-no-Sato and Himawari Festival
About 23 hectares of sunflowers across the hills of Hokuryu, among the largest such fields in Japan.
Aomori
Kuroishi Komise Matsuri
A September festival along the Komise arcades. Lanterns are lit at night and Tsugaru performing arts continue.
Aomori
Ohata Hachimangu Reitaisai
A rite about 300 years old in the Ohata district of Mutsu, with floats and portable shrines through the town.
MiyagiNature & SceneryMiyagi
Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Matsuri
A festival in central Ishinomaki, with a parade of portable shrines and a drum and fife corps, closing with some 6,000 fireworks.
MiyagiNature & SceneryMiyagi
Sendai Aoba Festival
Descended from the Edo-period Sendai Festival and revived on the 350th anniversary of Masamune's death, with sparrow dancing, a warrior procession and float parade.
MiyagiNature & SceneryMiyagi
Shiogama Minato Matsuri
Two sacred barges carrying portable shrines cross Matsushima Bay, followed by about 100 escort boats. One of Japan's three great boat festivals.
Miyagi
Kurikoma Dashi Matsuri
On the eve, hand dancing and floats moving by night; on the day itself, the musicians play together and the floats go round the town.
Miyagi
Himawari Matsuri
420,000 sunflowers on a hill at Sanbongi in Osaki. Ice cream and sweets are made from the sunflowers too.
AkitaNature & SceneryOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
National Fireworks Competition (Omagari Fireworks)
A fireworks competition at Omagari in Daisen. Makers come from across Japan; it is held to be the most prestigious such contest in the country.
Omagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
Kakunodate Festival Float Event (Kakunodate Festival)
Kakunodate's festival, held every 7 to 9 September. Some 400 years old, it has floats that ram each other.
AkitaCulture & HistoryAkita
Nishimonai Bon Odori
A Bon dance in Ugo said to be some 700 years old. Dancers hide their faces under woven hats and black hoods.
AkitaCulture & HistoryAkita
Namahage Sedo Matsuri
A February rite at Shinzan Shrine in Oga, joining a Shinto ceremony with the folk rite of the Namahage.
Akita
Roadside Station Akita Port Port Tower Selion
A roadside station at Akita Port. You can go up free to an observation room 100 metres high.