Spots in Akita

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No photo yetAkita, AkitaAkita City Folk Performing Arts Hall "Neburi Nagashi Kan"A city museum of Akita's festivals where anyone can try balancing a real Kanto festival lantern pole, with live Kanto performances on weekends from April to October.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetOdate, AkitaAkita Dog Visitor Center, OdateIn front of Odate Station: see real Akita dogs through glass, plus a small Akita dog museum and a souvenir shop. The building is modelled on the old Shibuya Station of Hachiko's time.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetAkita, AkitaAkita Museum of ArtA Tadao Ando-designed museum near Akita Station, home to Tsuguharu Foujita's huge mural "Events in Akita".Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetAkita, AkitaAkita Shimin Ichiba MarketAkita's kitchen, 3 min on foot from JR Akita Station: fresh fish, salted salmon roe and cod roe, vegetables, sake and souvenirs, with a market-run sushi bar.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: 掬茶 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Oga, AkitaCape Nyudozaki and Nyudozaki LighthouseA grassy headland at the northwestern tip of the Oga Peninsula on latitude 40° N, with one of Japan's 16 lighthouses you can climb.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: 掬茶 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Semboku, AkitaDakigaeri GorgeA 10 km gorge on the Tama River known for fresh green and autumn leaves, with a red suspension bridge and the Mikaeri Falls.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetDaisen, AkitaFormer Ikeda Family GardenThe garden of the Ikeda family, once among the three greatest landowners in Tohoku; in 2004 it became the first garden in Akita designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetSemboku, AkitaKakunodate Kabazaiku DenshokanA city craft museum in Kakunodate with live demonstrations of kabazaiku cherry-bark craft, displays of bark and maple-strip crafts, and armour of the Satake-Kita family.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACSemboku, AkitaKakunodate Samurai DistrictA preserved Edo-period samurai quarter known as the "Little Kyoto of Tohoku"; several houses are open inside.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetSemboku, AkitaKuroyu Onsen, Nyuto Onsen VillageThe innermost inn of Nyuto Onsen Village, with the spring bubbling up beside the thatched bath huts; open for day bathing from mid-April to early November.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: 掬茶 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Semboku, AkitaLake TazawaJapan's deepest lake (423.4 m), a round lake about 20 km around with deep blue water.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetOga, AkitaNamahage Museum and Oga Shinzan Folklore MuseumMore than 150 Namahage masks on display, and next door a live Namahage ritual in a traditional farmhouse (UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage).Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: KQuhen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Oga, AkitaOga Aquarium GAOAn aquarium on the Sea of Japan coast of the Oga Peninsula with polar bears, penguins and seals, and Akita's prefectural fish, the sandfish (hatahata), on show all year.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetKazuno, AkitaOyu Stone CirclesTwo large Jomon-period stone circles (about 2000-1500 BC), part of the World Heritage "Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan".Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Raita Futo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized)Semboku, AkitaTamagawa OnsenA mountain hot-spring retreat known for Japan's most acidic spring water (pH 1.2, 98°C), with a 9,000-litre-a-minute source; day bathing 10:00-15:00, closed in winter.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetSemboku, AkitaTsurunoyu Onsen, Nyuto Onsen VillageThe oldest of the eight inns in Nyuto Onsen Village, with a thatched-roof main building and four different springs on one site.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
No photo yetYokote, AkitaYokote Masuda Manga MuseumJapan's first museum dedicated to manga, holding original drawings by over 100 artists; the permanent exhibition is free.Official check: 25 Sept 2026