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Kawatsura Lacquerware Traditional Crafts Museum
Lacquerware from Kawatsura in Yuzawa. Lacquer is applied to the wooden base again and again, and the pieces are decorated with chinkin and maki-e.
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Akita Prefecture Lacquerware Industry Cooperative
A production-area association for Kawatsura lacquerware. It covers the processes for magnolia, horse chestnut, and other wood bases, and lacquer.
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Honjo Gotenmari
Gotenmari from Yurihonjo. Handballs wound with silk thread and embroidered with patterns.
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Akita City Folk Performing Arts Heritage Center
A center that passes on Akita's folk performing arts. It exhibits the lanterns and techniques of Kanto and gives demonstrations.
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Akita Prefectural Agricultural Science Museum
The prefectural agricultural science museum. It presents Akita's agricultural technology through exhibits.
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Moriyoshizan Dam Information Center
The information center of Moriyoshizan Dam. It exhibits how flood control works.
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Tamagawa Dam Information Room
The information room of Tamagawa Dam. It covers the system that neutralizes the strongly acidic water of Tamagawa Onsen.
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Hachirogata Reclamation and Ogata Village Polder Museum
It presents the reclamation of Hachirogata and the origins of Ogata Village. Hachirogata was once the second-largest lake in Japan.
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Oga Shinzan Folklore Museum and Namahage Museum
The Namahage of Oga. It presents the techniques for making the straw garments and masks, and the New Year's Eve ritual.
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Noshiro Energium Park
An environmental learning facility attached to the thermal power station in Noshiro.
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Kakunodate Samurai Residences
An Edo-period samurai quarter in Kakunodate, Semboku. Black board fences and weeping cherries run on together; it is called the little Kyoto of the north.
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Akita Inu Station
A centre near Akita Station. The days you can meet the Akita dogs are set week by week.
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Namahage Museum and Oga Shinzan Folklore Museum
A centre in Oga with over 150 Namahage masks, and a neighbouring farmhouse where the New Year's Eve rite is performed.
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Hachimantai Dragon Eye (Kagami-numa)
Kagami Pond on Hachimantai. For a few days during the thaw, the pond takes the look of a dragon's eye.
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Kanpūzan Kaiten Tenbōdai
A revolving lookout on the summit of Mount Kanpu, turning a full circle over the Oga Peninsula and the former Hachirogata lagoon.
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Kujūkushima (Kisakata)
A landform at Kisakata in Nikaho. Once a scenic bay of small islands, it was lifted into dry land by an earthquake.
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Akita Dog Museum (Akita Dog Preservation Society)
The Akita dog preservation society's building in Odate. A museum on the third floor holds the breed's history.
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Akita Dog Walking Health Walk
Walk with an Akita dog in Mitane. You are shown how to handle the dog before setting out.
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Akita Dog Cafe
A shop opened in Odate in May 2025 where you can spend time with Akita dogs.
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Kawarage Jigoku
A hillside in Yuzawa. Sulphurous gas escapes so nothing grows, and only white rock is exposed.