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Tokimeki Kōryū Center Yuppuru
A hot-spring centre at the foot of Mount Kinpo in Yokote, with apple orchards around it.
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Ōyu Onsen Hotel Kazuno
An inn in the Oyu hot-spring district of Kazuno, the southern gateway to Lake Towada.
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Sukawa Onsen Kurikoma Sansō
An inn at 1,100 metres. From the large bath with its view you look down on Mount Kurikoma in autumn colour.
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Tazawa-ko Kankō Jōhō Center "Foreake"
A tourist information centre inside Tazawako Station, advising on local transport and lodging.
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Historic Site Osarizawa Mine (Modernization Industrial Heritage)
The remains of a mine said to have been found in 708. Walk the tunnels and see how the work was done.
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Akita Geijutsu Gekijō Milhas
A cultural centre in Akita City opened in 2022, with halls large and small.
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Kabushiki Gaisha Saiya Shuzōten
A sake brewery in Yurihonjo whose brewers grow their own sake rice.
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Andō Jōzō Honten
A miso and soy sauce maker in Kakunodate founded in 1853, with its storehouse parlour open to visitors.
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Omoide-no-Kata Bunkou (the Kata Branch School of Memories)
A branch school that closed in 1974, repaired and opened to visitors. The classrooms remain as they were.
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Akita Airport Souvenir Plaza A-EL
A souvenir shop on the second floor of Akita Airport, gathering goods from across the prefecture.
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Wappa Building (magewappa-making experience)
A magewappa shop in Odate. Try the process of bending cedar into shape.
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Odate-Noshiro Airport Roadside Station
An unusual case in which the airport itself is the roadside station. A statue of an Akita dog stands inside.
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Godzilla-iwa
A strange rock on the Oga coast. In the evening, backlit, the shape the name promises appears.
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Dakedai Nature Observation Education Forest
A beech forest outside the Shirakami range, letting you see old-growth forest without entering the core zone.
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Kazuno Antler Roadside Station
A roadside station in Kazuno, displaying the floats of the Hanawa Bayashi festival.
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Tazawako Sauna
A sauna on the shore of Lake Tazawa. After the heat, you go into the lake.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Namahage Sedo Matsuri
A February rite at Shinzan Shrine in Oga, joining a Shinto ceremony with the folk rite of the Namahage.
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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.
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Omagari Fireworks Autumn Chapter
An autumn fireworks display in Daisen, held by season separately from the summer competition.
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Inukko Matsuri
A winter folk rite in Yuzawa. Dogs modelled in rice flour are set at the doorway in a prayer against theft.