Yamagata is home to many traditional sweets, including Okitsunehan, Sakedane Anpan, and Kirizansho. This time, we'll be introducing three of the most popular sweets, perfect for souvenirs.
The Mt. Chokai Wooden Toy Museum opened in Yurihonjo City in July 2018. It is the entire wooden school building of the former Ayukawa Elementary School, a nationally registered tangible cultural property.
Miyagi Prefecture is known as the kingdom of ingredients, and is famous for a variety of foods, including beef tongue, rice, zunda (soybean paste), sasakama (rice crackers), and seafood. However, the prefecture is also well-known for its crafts, such as kokeshi dolls.
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The most famous festival in Aomori is, of course, the Nebuta festival. In the summer, various shouts liven up the towns at night all over the prefecture. But take a closer look at the Nebuta Festival map...
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Akiu is one of Sendai's leading hot spring resorts. Sendai's first winery has opened in Akiu! Sendai is the center of Miyagi Prefecture, the kingdom of ingredients. Akiu's climate is ideal for grape production, so until now, wineries have been...
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Yonezawa City in Yamagata Prefecture is a home of handicrafts. A variety of traditional crafts, including safflower dyeing and woodworking, have been produced here for a long time. Yonezawa Tsumugi, which we previously introduced on NEFT, is one such example.
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When you hear the word "dagashi" (cheap sweets), what kind of snacks come to mind? "Umaibo," "fries," "Moroccan yogurt"... The snacks that come to mind are different for each person, but they are all...
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Kogin embroidery is a traditional embroidery technique handed down in Aomori Prefecture. It is a traditional technique passed down by farming women since the Edo period. Did you know that this Japanese embroidery technique is secretly becoming a hot topic right now?.
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Kokeshi dolls are a traditional craft beloved by the common people of Miyagi Prefecture. But what about traditional crafts beloved by the samurai class? During the Edo period, Sendai, a city of one million people, was known as the Sendai Domain, and was a regional center of the Tohoku region.
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The Oga Shinzan Folklore Museum presents the legend of Namahage through skits. Namahage, a visiting deity, is a representative folk legend of Oga City, Akita Prefecture, and is designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property of Japan.
