Ninohe
Sanchi Chokubaijo Kitchen Garden
A farm stand in Ninohe: wild vegetables in spring, mushrooms in autumn, and home-made rice-cake sweets.
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Morioka
Lake Gando Rest House
An eating house on Lake Gando in Yabukawa, Morioka, hand-cutting pure buckwheat noodles from local flour each morning.
Hanamaki
Kaa-chan Restaurant Tsutanowa
A restaurant run by farmers in the Towa district of Hanamaki, serving home cooking from local ingredients.
Iwate
Iwate-Numakunai Country Club
A golf course in Iwate town, 36 holes on hills looking out to Mount Iwate and Mount Himekami.
Iwate
Rose Land Country Club
A golf course on the hills of Iwate town, where red pines over a century old separate the holes.
Hanamaki
Utsunomiya Kajuen Ringo-ya
An orchard in Hanamaki growing apples at the foot of the Kitakami Mountains and selling them direct.
Ichinoseki
Ichinoseki Country Club
A golf course on the hills of Ichinoseki, one of the older courses in the Tohoku region, with Mount Kurikoma in view.
Ninohe
Inaniwa Kogen Park Golf Course
A park-golf course at the foot of Mount Inaniwa in Ninohe: four courses, 36 holes.
AkitaNature & SceneryOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
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.
Akita
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.
AkitaNature & Scenery
AkitaNature & ScenerySemboku
Lake Tazawa
At 423.4 metres, the deepest lake in Japan, holding water of a deep lapis blue.
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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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Kawarage Jigoku
A hillside in Yuzawa. Sulphurous gas escapes so nothing grows, and only white rock is exposed.
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Mount Moriyoshi and Ani Gondola
A ropeway to near the summit of Mount Moriyoshi, known as one of Japan's hundred flower mountains, with frost-covered trees in winter.
AkitaNature & SceneryOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
Dakigaeri Keikoku
A gorge in Semboku. The name is said to come from banks so close you had to turn back rather than go on.
Akita
Funoshi-no-taki Falls
A three-tier waterfall at Kawabe in Akita City. The water is clear to the riverbed.
AkitaShrines & TemplesSemboku
Gozanoishi Shrine
A shrine on the shore of Lake Tazawa, named for a stone the lord of the Akita domain sat on in 1650.
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AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded statue on the shore of Lake Tazawa, after the legend of Princess Tatsuko, who became the lake's spirit.
AkitaNature & SceneryAkita
JR Oga-eki
The terminus of the Oga Line. Rebuilt in 2018, its rooftop terrace looks out to Mount Kanpu and the Sea of Japan.
Omagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
Kakunodate Rekishimura Aoyagi-ke
One of Kakunodate's samurai houses, where you can put on a sword and armour.
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Kōrakukan (Kuni Jūyō Bunkazai)
A playhouse built in 1910 as a welfare facility for a mine. Among the oldest wooden theatres in Japan, it is an important cultural property.