• Miyagi

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

• Fukushima

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

• Niigata

Tokamachi Snow Festival was born from the ideas of local people to “befriend the s…

• Miyagi

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

• Iwate

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

• Miyagi

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

• Fukushima

• Niigata

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

• Miyagi

Hadaka-mairi (an event in which pilgrims parade through the streets of Sendai to visit a…

• Miyagi

• Fukushima

The unusual festival known as Nanokado Hadaka Mairi is held annually on the night of 7 J…

• Yamagata

Sakata Festival is held from May 19 to 21 every year. It is a traditional festival that …

• Miyagi

Rice has been cultivated in the Tagajo environs since ancient times. In a return to thes…

• Iwate

Located in the upper reaches of the Kakkonda River, which is part of Towada-Hachimantai …

• Iwate

• Multiple Areas

It is said that Taira no Kojiro Masakado, the founder of the Soma clan, thought of using…

• Fukushima

Izumi no Mori Tanabata Prayer Festival -Light -up and cool wind chimes-

• Fukushima

• Multiple Areas

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

• Niigata

This summer festival takes place over the course of three days in early August in the ce…

• Fukushima

• Akita

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

• Fukushima

• Aomori

The Tachineputa held from 4 to 8 August every year in Goshogawara City is regarded as on…

• Iwate

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

• Miyagi

• Akita

• Niigata

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

• Akita

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

• Iwate

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

• Fukushima

The shrine boasts a history of more than 2,000 years as the general guardian of Iwashiro…

• Iwate

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

• Aomori

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

• Fukushima

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

• Yamagata

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

• Iwate

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

• Fukushima

• Yamagata

• Akita

• Iwate