• Yamagata

• Iwate

The legend of water sprites, known as kappa, showing themselves to humans can be found i…

• Aomori

• Fukushima

• Iwate

Just a one-minute walk from Kamaishi Station, Sun Fish Kamaishi is a market offering the…

• Akita

• Miyagi

This all glass-sided modern building is a masterpiece of the well-known architect Toyo I…

• Aomori

• Niigata

The Fossa Magna Museum is a museum that tells the story of Japan’s minerals, rocks…

• Niigata

For anyone who likes Japanese sake, this is the place to come if you are visiting Niigat…

• Miyagi

Mooland Motoyoshi is a lushly green farm that extends out to the hills over 52 hectares …

• Iwate

Morioka is the city where famous poet Takuboku Ishikawa and children’s story write…

• Iwate

• Fukushima

• Miyagi

A hot spring resort dotted with five inns with a spring at the bottom of the valley at t…

• Iwate

Iwate Prefectural Museum is a general museum opened in 1980 to commemorate the centenary…

• Aomori

Mt. Iwaki is located in the southwestern part of Tsugaru Plain. It is the highest mounta…

• Iwate

Miyako City Fish Market, known as the “Kitchen of Miyako” was reopened in Ma…

• Aomori

The 59th National Bank was established in 1879. The building was relocated and made the …

• Miyagi

Ogama Hanzo and Oreishi Rocks are scenic spots of Sanriku Fukko National Park in the mid…

• Fukushima

Rice field art involves depicting pictures by treating a rice field as a single canvas w…

• Akita

• Yamagata

• Iwate

Kindaichi Onsen, located in Ninohe in northern Iwate, is said to have been discovered in…

• Niigata

As you walk along a path by the side of pond surrounded by beautiful green forest, field…

• Iwate

• Fukushima

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

• Fukushima

Takashiba Deco-Yashiki is the birthplace of the traditional folk toys of Miharu-goma (wo…

• Yamagata

• Niigata

The Ichishima Sake Brewery was founded by the Ichishima family, which were one of the la…

• Aomori

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

• Yamagata

• Akita

In this village of lush greenery, with an area four times the size of Tokyo Dome, you ca…

• Aomori

Arts Towada is a project based on the concept of developing the outside space along Kanc…

• Fukushima

Located in the Bandai Asahi National Park, the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art exhibits w…

• Niigata

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

• Fukushima

• Miyagi

Matsushima Onsen is a new hot spring that opened in 2008 in Matsushima, one of the Three…

• Iwate

• Yamagata