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宮城県 · Tourism

Matsushima

松島町三陸沿岸

One of the three great views of Japan: more than 260 islands afloat in the bay. Basho is said to have found no verse for it.

宮城県 · Tourism

Sendai Tanabata

仙台市仙台

Three thousand streamers fill the arcades. Date Masamune encouraged the festival.

宮城県 · Tourism

Sendai-jo

仙台市仙台

Built on the cliffs of Mount Aoba. No keep was ever raised.

宮城県 · Tourism

Okama

蔵王町県南

A crater lake. Its surface changes colour with the angle of the light, which is why it is called the five-coloured pond.

宮城県 · Tourism

Naruko Onsen

大崎市県北

Nine of Japan's eleven spring types rise here. Kokeshi doll country.

宮城県 · Tourism

Akiu Onsen

仙台市仙台

A bathing place of the Date family, counted among the three imperial hot springs of Japan.

宮城県 · Tourism

Tashirojima

石巻市三陸沿岸

An island with more cats than people. Fishermen long valued cats for catching rats.

宮城県 · Tourism

Kyogamine

仙台市仙台

Zuihoden, Kansenden and Zenoden stand together in a stand of cedars.

宮城県 · Tourism

Shiogama Market

塩竈市三陸沿岸

Sashimi bought here can be made into a rice bowl on the spot. Tuna landings are among the largest in Japan.

宮城県 · Tourism

Sendai Mediatheque

仙台市仙台

Thirteen tubes pierce the floors. Designed by Ito Toyo.

宮城県 · Tourism

Onagawa

女川町三陸沿岸

After the tsunami, the town was rebuilt around an axis running down to the sea.

宮城県 · Tourism

Entsuin Garden

松島町三陸沿岸

A garden that reads Matsushima Bay as the islands of the seven gods of fortune.

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.