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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.
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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.
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Akita City Folk Performing Arts Heritage Center (Neburi Nagashi-kan)
A centre in Akita City where you can try lifting a full-size kanto pole.
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Akita Dog Museum (Akita Dog Preservation Society)
The Akita dog preservation society's building in Odate. A museum on the third floor holds the breed's history.
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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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Senshū Kōen
A park on the site of Kubota Castle, with about 700 cherry trees, followed by azaleas and wisteria in early summer.
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Akita Dog Interaction Experience (Noshiro Kojuso)
A kennel in Noshiro where you can meet Akita dogs, known for the bloodline of dogs presented to athletes abroad.
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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.
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Akagami Shrine Goshado
Five shrine halls in the mountains of Oga, at the top of 999 stone steps said to have been laid by demons in a single night.
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Masuda Tourist and Local Products Center "Kura-no-Eki"
A centre among the storehouse streets of Masuda in Yokote, opening a building that was once an ironmonger's.
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Akita Museum of Art
An art museum in Akita City, with Tsuguharu Foujita's great mural on permanent display.
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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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Kakunodate Cherry Bark Craft Center
A crafts hall in Kakunodate, with demonstrations of kabazaiku, work made from wild cherry bark.
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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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Wappa Building (magewappa-making experience)
A magewappa shop in Odate. Try the process of bending cedar into shape.
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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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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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Inukko Matsuri
A winter folk rite in Yuzawa. Dogs modelled in rice flour are set at the doorway in a prayer against theft.