Akita · Place · candidate to visit
Akita Castle Ruins
The site of the administrative base of Dewa Province, overlapping with the cult of Koshio Jinja.
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Akita travel guide
Chokaisan Omonoimi Jinja, whose inner shrine sits on the Akita-Yamagata border, and Shinzan Jinja, known for its fire-walking rite. Akitakomachi rice and sake, kiritanpo, the namahage, Kakunodate, and kaba-zaiku worked from cherry bark. Akita, set out category by category.
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Kazuno · Place · candidate to visit
Goshogake Onsen
A hot-spring healing retreat remaining in Hachimantai. Its name comes from a legend of a person who prayed for peace in the next life.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityOga · Place · candidate to visit
Sedo Matsuri
The rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.
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Around Nikaho · Place · candidate to visit
Chokaisan Omonoimi Jinja
Its inner shrine stands on the summit of Mount Chokai, and which prefecture the peak belongs to, Akita or Yamagata, was disputed for a very long time. A place of worship takes shape by a logic of its own, not by administrative lines.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityOga · Place · candidate to visit
Shinzan Jinja
The stage for the new year Saito festival and the namahage rite. At the Saito festival, large rice cakes roasted over the sacred fire are offered to the mountain deity. Mountain worship in northern Japan keeps forms that are proved with the body.
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Koshio Jinja
An old shrine tied to legends of the subjugation of the Emishi. It preserves an early stratum of belief in Akita.
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Akita · Crafts & industry entry
Akita Industrial Technology Center
A public testing and research institute of the prefecture. It supports electronic components and the wood processing of magewappa.
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Akita Prefectural Government Manufacturing Exhibition Hall
An exhibition hall in the prefectural government building. It displays products of Akita's manufacturing industry.
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Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing
The prefecture's food research institute. It deals with fermentation technology and supports the brewing of sake and miso.
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Akita · Place · candidate to visit
Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
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Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
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Akita Red Brick Museum
A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facility100 Regional Revitalization Picks
100 local highlights chosen by each prefecture. Find candidates in nature, food and experiences.
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Akita · Place · candidate to visit
Odate Kosaka Railway Rail Bike
Ride a pedal-powered vehicle along the tracks of the former Kosaka railway.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityAkita · Place · candidate to visit
Akita Nairiku Jūkan Tetsudō
A 94.2-kilometre local line crossing the inland prefecture, running through rice country and mountain valleys.
Reference scenery of the region · not a photo of this facilityOmagari - Kakunodate - Lake Tazawa · Place · candidate to visit
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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