Fukushima travel guides: Aizu’s samurai heritage, highland lakes, and hot springs on Tohoku’s southern edge.
Beat the 40°C summer at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima: a giant all-weather dome where the pools are real hot-spring water, plus Japan's longest body slide, a live hula show born from a coal town, and easy access from Tokyo.
Ouchi-juku is a preserved Edo-period post town in Shimogo, Fukushima, where a single unpaved street is lined with thatched-roof (kayabuki) houses left from its days as a waystation on the Aizu-Nishi Kaidō route. It is best known for negi-soba —…
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