
"Immediate Body Buddha" in Yamagata Prefecture and "Reincarnation Faith" in Yudonoyama
Sokushinbutsu. Even if life ends, they remain forever and watch over people. At the end of their training, monks voluntarily eat only nuts and wild vegetables...
Sokushinbutsu. Even if life ends, they remain forever and watch over people. At the end of their training, monks voluntarily eat only nuts and wild vegetables...
At Kasuga Shrine in Kurokawa, Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, at the foot of Mt. Gassan, it was passed down as a ritual by parishioners (peasants) for 500 years and was designated as an important intangible folk cultural property in the country...
The Uesugi Festival, held in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, is a big event held over four days. On the final day, it was recreated on the riverbed of the Mogami River that flows through the city...
Kitamaebune transported many supplies from the mid-Edo period to the 1930s, travelled through the Sea of Japan between Osaka, Tohoku and Hokkaido. east...
Japan Heritage "Silk related to the Samurai - Go to Tsuruoka, the town where you can encounter the original scenery of Japan's modernization" Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, is home to Mt. Gassan, Ha...
Hanamiyama in Fukushima City is a famous flower spot that the late Shotaro Akiyama, one of Japan's leading photographers, visited every year, saying, ``Fukushima has a paradise.'' Plums, cherry blossoms, forengi...
Nezugaseki (Nenjugaseki/Nezugaseki) was located in the Tohoku region (Ezo...
Noheji Town, Aomori Prefecture, is a port town located at the end of Mutsu Bay, at the base of the Shimokita Peninsula, between the Tsugaru Peninsula and the Shimokita Peninsula. “Noheji” is an Ainu word...
Fukushima Prefecture is home to seven of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, including Mt. Bandai, and although it is the largest of the six prefectures in Tohoku, it is also home to the Ou Mountains, Echigo Mountains, Abukuma Taka...
There is an agricultural canal running from Lake Inawashiro to Koriyama City. A tunnel was dug in the mountain between Lake Inawashiro and Koriyama City to supply Koriyama City...