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Sedo Matsuri
The rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.
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Yokote Kamakura
A water deity is enshrined inside a snow hut. Belief embedded in daily life became a festival as it was.
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Akita Kanto Festival
Akita City's summer festival, about 270 years old. Bamboo poles hung with lanterns are balanced on forehead and hip as bearers move through the streets.
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Yokote Kamakura
A water deity is enshrined in a snow hut, and sweet amazake is served inside.
AkitaNature & SceneryOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
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.
Omagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
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.
AkitaCulture & HistoryAkita
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.
Omagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
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.
AkitaNature & SceneryOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa
Fireworks Traditional Culture Museum Hanabi-AMU
A museum in Daisen on the history of the Omagari fireworks and how fireworks are made.