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Kahoku Children's Zoo
The only zoo in the prefecture, in Kahoku. Small, but it keeps unusual birds.
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Paragliding Experience / Nanyo Sky Park
A launch site on Mount Jubuichi in Nanyo. You can drive to the top, and a sea of clouds forms on autumn mornings.
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Omoshiroyama Kogen
Uplands east of Yamadera on the Miyagi border, reached on foot from an unstaffed station.
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Namegawa Otaki Falls
A waterfall in Yonezawa with a drop of about 80 metres, chosen among Japan's hundred finest falls.
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Yudonosan Shrine
The shrine that honours the sacred body of Mount Yudono. The custom of not speaking of what one sees there is still kept.
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Tengendai Kogen
Uplands at 1,300 metres in Yonezawa. Ride up by cable and look out over the ranges around.
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Mount Chokai
A 2,236-metre mountain across Yamagata and Akita, rising in one sweep from sea level.
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Nagai Dam / Nagai Hyakushu Lake
A dam completed in 2011 and its lake, where boats leave for the Mibuchi gorge.
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Shiraito Falls
A waterfall in the Mogami gorge at Tozawa, one of Japan's hundred finest, seen from the river boat.
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Shinjo Station
Shinjo's station, where the Yamagata Shinkansen and three local lines meet — the gateway to the Mogami district.
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Sakuranbo-Higashine Station
Higashine's station. The Yamagata Shinkansen stops here, the gateway to cherry-growing country.
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Shogi Mura Tendo Tower
A shop for shogi pieces and a viewing tower in Tendo, marked by a giant king piece.
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Sagae Dam (commonly known as Gassan Lake) and Gassan Lake Great Fountain
A reservoir made by damming the Sagae River, with what is held to be Japan's tallest fountain rising from the water.
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Sagae Cherry Land Roadside Station
A roadside station along the Sagae River, dealing in cherries and other prefectural goods.
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Momiji Park
A park in Yamagata City. Once the garden of a Shingon temple, it was laid out and opened by the city.
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Yamagata Zao Roadside Station
A roadside station in Yamagata City, with a plaza for eating imoni stew and bays for sleeping in your car.
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Yamagata Sogo Bunka Geijutsukan
A cultural centre at the west exit of Yamagata Station, with one of the larger halls in Tohoku.
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Fukushima City Photography Museum (Hana-no-Shashinkan)
A museum in a building raised in 1922 as the Ministry of Communications' Electrical Testing Laboratory, Fukushima Testing Station. It has shown photography since 2003.
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Horikawa Dam
A multipurpose dam in Nishigo, completed in fiscal 2000, with the Nasu range reflected on the water.
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Iyashi-no-Mori
A path from oak woods into cedar. Partway along, a clearing holds the great fallen beech of Kokkai.
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Sakurazato-no-Kikurakuen
A flower garden in Nakata, Koriyama: 3,000 zaru-giku chrysanthemums over about 30 ares.
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Aizu Yakushi Temple
A temple in Yugawa with more than 250 maples in its grounds, colouring in autumn.
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Manogawa Gorge
The upper gorge of the Mano River, which flows from Iitate to Minamisoma, with autumn colour along the water.