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福島県 · Shrines & temples

Shiramizu Amidado

いわき市浜通り

The only National Treasure building in Fukushima, standing within a Pure Land garden.

福島県 · Shrines & temples

Suzumigaoka Hachiman

相馬市浜通り

Its group of shrine buildings is an Important Cultural Property.

福島県 · Shrines & temples

Tsurugajo Inari

会津若松市会津

It stood here before Tsuruga Castle was built. It burned with the castle and was rebuilt.

福島県 · Shrines & temples

Nihonmatsu Jinja

二本松市中通り

The lantern festival of Nihonmatsu is one of the three great lantern festivals of Japan.

福島県 · Shrines & temples

Hange Matsuri

下郷町会津

A procession moving through a post town of thatched houses.

福島県 · Shrines & temples

Nagatoko

喜多方市会津

An open worship hall where forty-four thick pillars stand in rows. A great ginkgo turns gold before it.

福島県 · Tourism

Miharu Takizakura

三春町中通り

A weeping cherry said to be more than a thousand years old. One of the three great cherry trees of Japan, and the tree itself has long been revered.

福島県 · Tourism

Nakoso no Seki

いわき市浜通り

One of the three barriers of the north. A frontier place written into poetry for centuries.

福島県 · Tourism

Nisshinkan

会津若松市会津

The site of the Aizu domain school. The Ju no Okite was the code for the sons of samurai.

福島県 · Tourism

Tsuruga-jo

会津若松市会津

It withstood a month-long siege in the Boshin War. A keep with red tiles.

福島県 · Tourism

Ouchi-juku

下郷町会津

Thatched houses line both sides of the road. A post town on the Aizu Nishi Kaido.

福島県 · Tourism

Goshikinuma

北塩原村会津

A group of ponds formed by the eruption of Mount Bandai. Each holds water of a different colour.

福島県 · Tourism

Lake Inawashiro

猪苗代町会津

The fourth largest lake in Japan. Called the mirror of heaven, it reflects Mount Bandai.

福島県 · Tourism

Miharu Takizakura

三春町中通り

A weeping cherry more than a thousand years old, one of the three great cherry trees of Japan.

福島県 · Tourism

Hanamiyama

福島市中通り

A flower farmer opened his own hillside to the public without charge. A paradise, in Fukushima.

福島県 · Tourism

Nanukamachi

会津若松市会津

Western-style buildings and storehouses from the Taisho era. The street runs on from Aizu-Wakamatsu station.

福島県 · Tourism

Oyakuen

会津若松市会津

A daimyo garden where medicinal herbs were grown, laid out around a heart-shaped pond.

福島県 · Tourism

Soma Nomaoi

南相馬市ほか浜通り

Five hundred mounted warriors in full armour. It is said to have run for a thousand years.

福島県 · Tourism

Tsuchiyu Kokeshi

福島市中通り

One of the three birthplaces of the kokeshi doll. The patterns are drawn on the lathe.

福島県 · Tourism

Abukumado

田村市中通り

A limestone cave found during quarrying. It runs 600 metres.

福島県 · Tourism

Hawaiians

いわき市浜通り

It was created by turning the hot water and the workforce of a closed coal mine to another use.

福島県 · Art & museums

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

福島市中通り

Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.

福島県 · Art & museums

Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

北塩原村会津

One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.

福島県 · Art & museums

Fukushima Museum

会津若松市会津

Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.