• Yamagata

Uesugi Jinja Shrine was built on the grounds of the former Yonezawa Castle to enshrine K…

• Miyagi

Fires occurred in various stricken areas caused by damage to propane gas cylinders and a…

• Niigata

Tsubame City is famous as a city of manufacturing that is home to highly advanced and di…

• Niigata

This grand house was built in 1918 as a family villa by Kijuro Saito IV, a scion of the …

• Aomori

Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto is known for its thousand torii gates, but Tohoku has its …

• Aomori

The Korekawa Jomon Kan promotes Hachinohe's Jomon culture through the display of art…

• Miyagi

The Kanezaki Sohonten Sasakamakan is a hands-on facility where visitors can enjoy not on…

• Miyagi

Together with the Heijo-kyo city ruins in Nara Prefecture and the remains of Dazaifu for…

• Yamagata

There are six sokushinbutsu (monks who practice austerity to the point of death and mumm…

• Yamagata

Matsugasaki Park is located on the grounds of the former Yonezawa Castle. The water-fill…

• Fukushima

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima experienced a combined disaster unpreceden…

• Miyagi

This museum (also known as the Ishinomaki Mangattan Museum) is dedicated to the manga ar…

• Akita

Yokote Castle is said to have been built around 1570 by the warlord Onodera Terumichi. A…

• Akita

The priest will explain the relationship between the Kakunodate samurai and Zen, and the…

• Akita

Since 1910 (Meiji 43), Oomagari's fireworks has more than 110 years of history. Omag…

• Miyagi

The only national park in the Tohoku region, located on the lakeside of the Kamabusa Dam…

• Iwate

• Niigata

The Kikusui Brewery has opened the Kikusui Sake Culture Institute to the public, which h…

• Yamagata

Kaminoyama Castle (also known as Tsukioka Castle) is said to have been built by Takei (E…

• Miyagi

The Sendai Castle VR Go Experience is a 360-degree VR experience using a head-mounted di…

• Akita

Noshiro City once had a history of being called “the best wooden city in the East,…

• Fukushima

Maki-e is a unique Japanese craft technique in which lacquerware surfaces are painted wi…

• Aomori

The Shuji Terayama Museum was built over a period of about three years to preserve and d…

• Akita

The local museum, which utilizes the head office of the former Akita Bank, was construct…

• Niigata

The Watanabe Residence is the former house of one of Niigata’s wealthy merchants a…

• Niigata

This is the temple where Sengoku period warlord Kenshin Uesugi spent his childhood years…

• Miyagi

Date Masamune, who relocated his castle from Yamagata Prefecture on the orders of Toyoto…

• Miyagi

The former Onagawa Police Box is a two-story reinforced-concrete building whose foundati…

• Fukushima

To-no-hetsuri is the largest scenic spot in Okawa Hatori Prefectural Park. It was design…

• Akita

Matagi refers to the people living deep in the mountains, hunting bears and other animal…

• Niigata

Nishikigoi, or vari-coloured carp are known as “swimming jewels,” with their…

• Akita

“Namahage” is a folk ritual performed throughout the Oga Peninsula and surro…

• Yamagata

The Honma family was the wealthiest merchant family in Japan between the 17th and mid-20…

• Iwate

• Aomori

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

• Yamagata

Kaikoji Temple is dedicated to two of the six sokushinbutsu (monks who practice austerit…

• Yamagata

Kumano Taisha Shrine is also referred to as the Ise of Tohoku. It is considered one of t…

• Fukushima

Oyaku-en is located 15 minutes on foot to the east of Tsuruga Castle. It is a Japanese g…

• Aomori

Hirosaki, the base of civilization and enlightenment in the north, is home to many retro…

• Iwate

Across 20 hectares, the Esashi Fujiwara Heritage Park is lined with around 120 Heian-sty…