Culture Kakunodate Cherry Blossom Festival 2024 Bonson Lam The sakura or cherry blossom festival celebrates the arrival of spring and the cherry blossoms in the Samurai town of Kakunod...
Activities Kitakami River Rubber Boat Race 2024 Malcome Larcens An annual rubber race down the Kitakami River in Morioka. You can enter as a competitor or simply as a slow cruise down the r...
Culture Yamagata Snow Festival 2025 Mandy Bartok Yamagata hosts a winter festival on the first weekend of February 2017.
Culture Paper Balloon Festival in Senboku 2025 Malcome Larcens The Paper Balloon festival is a very colourful festival in the middle of the Akita winter
Culture Yuzawa Inukko Dog Festival 2025 Malcome Larcens The Inukko dog festival is held on the second weekend in February in Yuzawa City in Akita
Culture Namahage Sedo Festival 2025 Malcome Larcens The Namahage Festival is held each year on the second Friday, Saturday and Sunday of February, around the time of the old or ...
Culture Kitakami Michinoku Geino Festival 2024 Malcome Larcens The Kitakami Michinoku Geino Festival is held each year on the first weekend of August
Activities The Giant Tug of War of Kariwano 2025 Malcome Larcens Each winter on February 10th the people of Kariwano district in Daisen City, Akita gather together for a giant tug of war tha...
Culture Yokote Kamakura Festival 2025 Japan Travel Every February, Akita's Yokote transforms into a fairytale landscape dotted with igloo-like structures in a festival dating b...