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秋田県 · Art & museums

Isedotai Site

北秋田市県北

Four stone circles on one plateau, a configuration found nowhere else in Japan.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Ani Matagi Museum

北秋田市県北

The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Odate Bentwood Ware

大館市県北

Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Cedar Cooperage

大館市県北

Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Odate Central Library

大館市県北

The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Former Ryotei Kaneyu

能代市県北

A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum

にかほ市由利

Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Kanmanji

にかほ市由利

Once a lagoon rivalling Matsushima; an earthquake raised it, leaving islets stranded in rice fields.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Honjo Local Museum

由利本荘市由利

Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Naraoka Ware

大仙市県南

Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Omagari Fireworks

大仙市県南

The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Hanawa Bayashi

鹿角市県北

Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Osarizawa Mine

鹿角市県北

A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Inukko Festival

湯沢市県南

Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Castle Ruins

秋田市中央

An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Hachirogata Reclaimed Land

大潟村中央

A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Ogata Reclamation Museum

大潟村中央

The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi

秋田市中央

A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Ranga

秋田市中央

A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Furusato Mura

横手市県南

Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.

秋田県 · Regional selections

Kakunodate Samurai Residences

大曲・角館・田沢湖／自然・景観／歴史・文化

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 no…

秋田県 · Regional selections

Akita Inu Station

秋田／体験・見学

A centre near Akita Station. The days you can meet the Akita dogs are set week by week.

秋田県 · Regional selections

Namahage Museum and Oga Shinzan Folklore Museum

白神・能代・男鹿／歴史・文化／体験・見学

A centre in Oga with over 150 Namahage masks, and a neighbouring farmhouse where the New Year's Eve rite is performed.

秋田県 · Regional selections

Shūsen-ko

大曲・角館・田沢湖／自然・景観

A dam lake along National Route 341. The mountains show on the water in new green and in autumn colour.