Best Hotels Near Yokote Station | Kamakura Snow Huts & Yakisoba
Snow huts glowing with candlelight, a legendary yakisoba scene, and a world-class manga archive — Yokote is winter…
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Best Hotels Near Ugo-Honjo Station | Gateway to Mt. Chokai
The castle-town base for Mt. Chokai — a charming rural railway, koi-filled moats and the quiet Sea of…
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Best Hotels Near Tsuchizaki Station | Akita’s Port Quarter & Festival Floats
Akita's salty port quarter — UNESCO festival floats in July, free tower views over the Sea of Japan,…
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Best Hotels Near Akita Station | The Kanto Festival & Namahage
Akita Shinkansen Guide · Akita Station Best Hotels Near Akita Station: The Kanto Festival, Namahage &the Rice-and-Sake Capital…
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Best Hotels Near Omagari Station | Japan’s Great Fireworks Competition
Akita Shinkansen Guide · Omagari Station Best Hotels Near Omagari Station: Japan’s Great Fireworks Competition —The Night the…
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Best Hotels Near Kakunodate Station | The Samurai Cherry Town
Akita Shinkansen Guide · Kakunodate Station Best Hotels Near Kakunodate Station: The Samurai Cherry Town —“Little Kyoto” of…
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Best Hotels Near Tazawako Station | Japan’s Deepest Lake & Nyuto Onsen
Akita Shinkansen Guide · Tazawako Station Best Hotels Near Tazawako Station: Japan’s Deepest Lake &the Secret Baths of…
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Akita Shinkansen Guide: The Komachi to Lake Tazawa & Akita
Shinkansen Line Guide · Akita Shinkansen Akita Shinkansen Guide: The Komachi to Akita —A Deep Blue Lake, Samurai…
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Kakunodate: The Samurai Town of Akita — Cherry Blossoms & Preserved Streetscapes
In most of Japan, the physical fabric of the samurai era has been lost — to the deliberate…
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Akita Namahage Festival: The Demon-Faced Ritual That Still Terrifies Children
On New Year's Eve (大晦日 / Ōmisoka) in the villages of the Oga Peninsula (男鹿半島) in Akita Prefecture,…
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