• Multiple Areas

Go snowshoe trekking at a leisurely pace. Guides certified by the Akita Shirakami Guide …

• Aomori

The Hachinohe Enburi Festival is a traditional event heralding the coming of spring with…

• Aomori

Visitors can experience the charms of Tsugaru in its entirety through exhibitions of Hir…

• Iwate

Kitakami City in Iwate Prefecture has many folk entertainment groups and abounds with ac…

• Miyagi

Since its opening in 1796, Sakunami Hot Spring has been visited by many people, includin…

• Fukushima

Located in Nishida-cho, Koriyama City, Takashiba Deco-Yashiki is the birthplace of Mihar…

• Akita

The ice trees of Mt. Moriyoshi, counted among Japan's three great ice trees alongsid…

• Aomori

・What is SnowHike?　・SnowHike is a combination of the best features of skis and snowsh…

• Yamagata

The wide sky and verdant forest. The Iide Dondendaira Lily Garden, the largest lily gard…

• Fukushima

The Fukushima Waraji (Straw Sandals) Festival takes place in early August each year and …

• Aomori

For more information, please visit the VISIT Hachinohe website.The Hachinohe Sansha Tais…

• Niigata

The Wara Art Festival is held every year from summer through autumn. Young people from t…

• Yamagata

This mini tour takes you to the terraced rice paddies of Shikamura, one of the top 100 t…

• Iwate

In this highly unusual festival held during the intense cold of February, men who are co…

• Miyagi

The Michinoku Yosakoi Festival is a yosakoi dance event in which participants hold naruk…

• Niigata

The cherry blossoms of Takada Castle Site Park are considered as one of the three great …

• Miyagi

Yakurai Garden is a vast garden with 400 varieties of cultivated plants and flowers bloo…

• Yamagata

The Yonezawa Uesugi Festival is a period picture scroll that unfolds on a grand scale wi…

• Fukushima

Adding colour to Iwaki in summer, the Iwaki Fireworks Festival is a rarity in Japan beca…

• Iwate

The Fujiwara Festival is held every spring and autumn in the World Heritage town of Hira…

• Iwate

With sights resembling that of a splendid large picture scroll, the Hidaka Hibuse Festiv…

• Miyagi

The 6-hectare “Sunflower Hill” is covered with 420,000 sunflowers, and the &…

• Miyagi

The Shiogama Minato Festival is counted as one of Japan’s top three boat festivals…

• Fukushima

The Taimatsu Akashi is one of Japan’s three major fire festivals that has been con…

• Yamagata

The Tsuruoka Tenjin Festival is a ritual taking place annually on 25 May at Tsuruoka Ten…

• Niigata

The Naked Man Pushing Festival is held each year in snow that is usually more than 2m in…

• Niigata

For farming the terraced rice paddies hewn out of the sloping mountainsides it was once …

• Miyagi

The Hatsu-uma Festival is a ritual taking place in Kami-machi in northern Miyagi prefect…

• Yamagata

The Shinjo Festival of Shinjo in Yamagata Prefecture has a history of more than 260 year…

• Akita

This wintery festival has been continued for over 400 years. It is held annually on the …

• Iwate

Gokusui no En recreates a Heian period poetry game, and involves poets dressed in Heian …

• Aomori

■Highlights／Points✔While listening to the musical performances of the groups participat…

• Iwate

Tono City in Iwate Prefecture is known as the “city of folklore.” The Tono D…

• Iwate

This festival has over 420 years of history and is held in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefectu…

• Miyagi

Since 2013, Shibata Town has been hosting this flower event from summer to autumn every …

• Iwate

The Sansa Odori is a dance that has been handed down since the feudal era and is said to…

• Akita

Yuzawa city in Akita prefecture was the hometown of the ancient poet Ono no Komachi, ren…

• Miyagi

The Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Festival was started as a festival to give thanks to Kawamura …

• Iwate

When you enter Tono Furusato Village, you will be surrounded by the retro scenery of a J…

• Fukushima