Hirosaki City, Japan's first city to be incorporated during the Meiji Restoration, has a population of 300,000 and is a castle town known as one of Japan's leading apple-producing regions. The city is beautifully colored throughout the four seasons, and in spring, the vast fields are covered in bloom...
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Yamagata Prefecture, the leading "wine kingdom" in the Tohoku region, is home to a variety of wineries throughout the prefecture. This time, we'll be sharing trivia about Yamagata's wines, as well as offering tours of breweries, winemaking experiences, and tastings...
Aomori City, a port city at the very back of the vast Mutsu Bay and the prefectural capital with a population of approximately 270,000, will be revitalized with the return of its long-awaited Nebuta Festival in early August 2023, after being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There is a soy sauce that has been loved for generations in Yonezawa City, in southern Yamagata Prefecture. It's called "Umai-tare." Every Yonezawa resident knows it, and I've heard that every household keeps a bottle of it on hand.
The castle town of Nihonmatsu is home to Mount Adatara, known for the poem "The Real Sky" that appears in Kotaro Takamura's poetry collection "Chieko Sho," as well as Dake Hot Springs. The Abukuma River flows through the center of the city, and the city is surrounded by a rich natural landscape.
Tsuruoka City has long been known for its traditional cuisine, which makes use of seasonal ingredients, including mountain delicacies such as wild vegetables and mushrooms, rural produce such as rice, edamame, turnips, and bamboo shoots, and seafood such as cod and flounder.
I had always thought that beekeeping was done in remote areas. In fact, I didn't have a very good feeling about bees, so I never expected to find it right next to a residential area, not too far away...
Grapes are often associated with autumn, but did you know that there are delicious grapes that reach their peak around the Obon festival in August? In the Okitama region, where grape cultivation is thriving, high-quality grapes are grown...
Nezumigaseki, where Matsuo Basho is said to have passed, is located in the southwest of Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, on the border with Niigata Prefecture. When Yamagata Prefecture was called Oshu (Mutsu Province, Dewa Province), it was one of the three Oshu checkpoints, known as the Shirakawa Checkpoint.
Minamigaoka Ranch in Bandai Kogen is an open-air ranch with a panoramic view of Mount Bandai. It is popular for its various dairy products made with milk from Guernsey cows, a rare breed in Japan. This time, we will be introducing Minamigaoka Ranch, which has a fantastic location...
