Every Place in the Catalogue
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Aizu Sauce Katsudon
Little knownA katsudon almost everywhere in Japan means pork cutlet simmered with onion and egg. In Aizu it does not. Here the cutle…
Soma Nomaoi
Little knownSoma Nomaoi is a thousand-year-old military exercise that never stopped being one. Several hundred riders in genuine fam…
Yonomori Cherry Tunnel
Little knownYonomori in Tomioka has an avenue of about 420 cherry trees running for 2.2 kilometres, planted from the Meiji period on…
Iwaki 3.11 Memorial and Revitalization Museum
Little knownUsuiso, on the Iwaki coast, lost most of its houses and a large number of its residents to the tsunami in March 2011. Th…
Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum
Little knownFutaba is the town the Fukushima Daiichi plant stands in. It was evacuated entirely in March 2011 and remained closed fo…
Shirakawa Komine Castle
Little knownShirakawa was the gate to the north — the barrier on the old road where the Japanese state ended and the frontier began,…
Tora Shokudo
Little knownShirakawa ramen is a soy-based bowl on a stock of chicken bone, pork bone and vegetables, with flat hand-cut noodles tha…
Kasumigajo Park
Little knownNihonmatsu Castle was the seat of the Niwa clan and is one of Japan's hundred fine castles, listed alongside Tsuruga and…
Kurozuka
Little knownAdachigahara is the setting of one of the oldest and darkest stories in Japanese folklore: an old woman living alone in…
Takashiba Dekoyashiki
Little knownDeko is an old word for a doll, and Takashiba is the hamlet the dolls come from. Four workshops still stand here, famili…
Yunokami Onsen Station
Little knownYunokami Onsen is the only station in Japan with a thatched roof. It was rebuilt in that form in 1987 to echo the post-t…
Tokusa Onsen Iwaburo
Little knownTokusa is called one of Aizu's hidden springs and the bath is exactly that: a rock pool under a simple roof, built into…
Hinoemata Kabuki
Little knownHinoemata is a village of a few hundred people in the mountains at the far south-west corner of Fukushima, on the approa…
Attaka-yu
Little knownTakayu sits at around 750 metres on the road up to the Bandai-Azuma Skyline and its water is white sulphur — properly cl…
Sabako-yu
Little knownIizaka is one of the three famous hot springs of the old Oshu road and Sabako-yu is its oldest bath. Basho is recorded a…
Manpuku
Little knownAfter the war a great many people repatriated from Manchuria settled in Fukushima City, and some of them opened shops ma…
Jododaira
Little knownThe Bandai-Azuma Skyline climbs from Fukushima City into the Azuma volcanic range and tops out at Jododaira, 1,600 metre…
Babahera Ice
Little knownFrom March to November, on roadsides and at events across Akita, women sit under pink and yellow parasols beside metal d…
Sato Yoske Head Shop
Little knownInaniwa udon is flat, thin, translucent and unusually smooth, and it is made by hand in a process that takes four days:…
Gono Line and Resort Shirakami
Little knownThe Gono Line runs 147 kilometres from Higashi-Noshiro in Akita to Kawabe in Aomori, and for about eighty of them it is…
Akita Folk Performing Arts Hall
Little knownAkita has an unusual concentration of surviving folk performance — the Kanto pole-balancing of the city, the Tsuchizaki…
Ogata Village Polder Museum
Little knownLake Hachirogata was the second-largest lake in Japan. Between 1957 and 1977 it was drained — a national project using D…
Kanpuzan Rotating Observatory
Little knownKanpuzan is a lava dome at the neck of the Oga peninsula, 355 metres high and covered entirely in grass — no trees, just…
Nyudozaki
Little knownThe northern tip of the Oga peninsula, where a treeless grass headland runs out to low cliffs and stops. There are no tr…
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