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秋田県 · Shrines & temples

Akagami Gosha-do

男鹿市中央

The 999 steps are said to have been piled up by ogres in one night. Five halls stand in a row above.

秋田県 · Shrines & temples

Karamatsu Jinja

大仙市県南

An unusual arrangement, with the hall set lower than the approach path.

秋田県 · Shrines & temples

Kujukushima

にかほ市由利

Once islands afloat in the sea. An earthquake lifted the land, and they now stand among the rice fields.

秋田県 · Tourism

Akitajo

秋田市中央

The site of the administrative base of Dewa Province, overlapping with the cult of Koshio Jinja.

秋田県 · Tourism

Hachimantai Toji

鹿角市県北

At Goshogake and elsewhere, the bathing places themselves became places of worship.

秋田県 · Tourism

Sedo Matsuri

男鹿市中央

The rite held to be the source of the namahage tradition. Fires are lit on a winter night.

秋田県 · Tourism

Hachiman Akita Jinja

秋田市中央

It stands on the site of Kubota Castle and enshrines the Satake clan.

秋田県 · Tourism

Yokote Kamakura

横手市県南

A water deity is enshrined inside a snow hut. Belief embedded in daily life became a festival as it was.

秋田県 · Tourism

Inukko

湯沢市県南

Dog figures are placed in shrines made of snow, in a folk rite that prays for protection against theft.

秋田県 · Tourism

Kakunodate

仙北市県南

Black plank walls and weeping cherries. The little Kyoto of the north.

秋田県 · Tourism

Kanto Matsuri

秋田市中央

A pole hung with 46 lanterns is balanced on the forehead or the hip. It weighs fifty kilograms.

秋田県 · Tourism

Lake Tazawa

仙北市県南

The deepest lake in Japan. At 423 metres, its bed lies below sea level.

秋田県 · Tourism

Nyuto Onsen

仙北市県南

Seven hot springs scattered through the valley. Tsuru-no-yu keeps its thatched Edo-period lodging.

秋田県 · Tourism

Namahage

男鹿市中央

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage as a "visiting deity" tradition. They call at every house on New Year's Eve.

秋田県 · Tourism

Isedotai

北秋田市県北

Four stone circles stand together, held to be a ritual site.

秋田県 · Tourism

Yokote Kamakura

横手市県南

A water deity is enshrined in a snow hut, and sweet amazake is served inside.

秋田県 · Tourism

Hinai Jidori

大館市県北

One of the three great native chicken breeds of Japan. It makes the broth for kiritanpo hotpot.

秋田県 · Tourism

GAO

男鹿市中央

Tanks that reach out over the Japan Sea. It keeps polar bears.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Museum of Art

秋田市中央

Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Senshu Museum of Art

秋田市中央

Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Red Brick Museum

秋田市中央

A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Museum of Modern Art

横手市県南

On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Prefectural Museum

秋田市中央

Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Former Nara Family Residence

秋田市中央

A wealthy farmer's house in the two-gate style unique to Akita; an Important Cultural Property.