AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Kakunodate Samurai District
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
Culture & history entries7,801 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
7,801ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
7,801 entries / page 71 of 326
AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
AkitaArchitectureSemboku
Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
AkitaMuseumsSemboku
Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Itaya Basketry
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households that became a traditional craft of Akita Prefecture.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
Yokote
Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
AkitaContemporary Art
AkitaMuseumsYokote
Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Kawatsura Lacquerware
Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.
Yuzawa
Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
Oga
Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
AkitaMuseumsKitaakita
Isedotai Site
Four stone circles on one plateau, a configuration found nowhere else in Japan.
Kitaakita
Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
Odate
Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
AkitaArt & CraftsOdate
Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
Odate
Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
AkitaArchitectureNoshiro
Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.
AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
AkitaArchitecture
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple