• 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…

• Fukushima

Fukushima City is dotted with many famous flower spots that charm visitors, including Ha…

• Miyagi

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

• Iwate

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

• Miyagi

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

• Iwate

The Kokuseki-ji Temple Somin-sai Festival is a so-called “hadaka matsuri” (n…

• Miyagi

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

• Fukushima

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

• Niigata

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

• Niigata

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

• Akita

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

• Miyagi

The Sendai Aoba Festival is one of Sendai’s three major festivals that adds colour…

• Fukushima

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

• Iwate

It is the largest morning market in Japan as a cooperative format, and if you turn down …

• Iwate

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

• Akita

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

• Yamagata

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

• Iwate

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

• Aomori

The Aomori Nebuta Festival is one of Japan's representative fire festivals. The fest…

• Fukushima

the 12th to 18th centuries. On its premises, guests can enjoy afternoon tea in authentic…

• Aomori

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

• Niigata

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

• Yamagata

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

• Yamagata

The Murayama Tokunai Festival takes place in Murayama city in Yamagata prefecture over t…

• Niigata

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

• Iwate

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

• Iwate

This is a traditional event that has been held for more than 200 years, originating from…

• Iwate

Hanamaki is the hometown of famed children's writer Kenji Miyazawa. The Miyazawa Ken…

• Fukushima

The festival is held every February. Visitors are entertained by traditional performing …

• Akita

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

• Fukushima

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

• Akita

This lively festival is lauded for its festival music, which is said to be the best in J…

• Fukushima

Along with the Gion Festival in Kyoto and the Gion Yamagasa in Hakata, the Aizu Tajima G…

• Miyagi

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

• Iwate

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

• Aomori

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

• Fukushima

• Miyagi

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

• Yamagata

From late April to late November, locals operate a morning market in the hot spring reso…