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Location, Akita, Culture, Events & Festivals, News & Updates, Seasonal Travel, Tohoku, Travel Tips, Weather & Seasons

Akita Kantō Festival 2026: Japan’s Lantern-Pole Spectacle

Several tall kanto poles strung with glowing paper lanterns rise above a large nighttime crowd on Kanto Odori during the Akita Kanto Festival, with performers in happi coats balancing the poles in Akita City.

The Akita Kanto Festival (3-6 August 2026): around 280 bamboo poles strung with ~10,000 lanterns, balanced on palms and foreheads on Kanto Odori.

Nobu
June 22, 2026

Akita, Location, Nature, Seasonal Travel, Tohoku

Lake Shusenko’s Submerged Forest: Akita’s Cobalt-Blue Spring Spectacle (2026)

The submerged forest of Lake Shusenko in Kitaakita, Akita: fresh green trees standing in vivid turquoise reservoir water in late spring, with green forested hills behind under a blue sky

Each spring, snowmelt floods Akita's Lake Shusenko until the shoreline trees stand in cobalt-blue water — a submerged forest at its best in early-to-mid May, and possibly on borrowed time.

Nobu
June 8, 2026

Location, Aomori, Miyagi, Tohoku, Travel Tips, Yamagata

Tokyo to Tohoku 5-Day Itinerary 2026: Sendai, Yamadera, Ginzan Onsen & Hirosaki Castle

Snow falling on Ginzan Onsen at night, gas lamps illuminating Taisho-era ryokan in Yamagata

A 5-day Tohoku itinerary from Tokyo: Sendai gyutan, Matsushima Bay cruise, Yamaderas 1,015 steps, Ginzan Onsen ryokan, Hirosaki Castle cherry blossoms, and Aomori Nebuta — with 2026 JR EAST PASS pricing.

Nobu
April 26, 2026

Fukushima, Location

Ouchi-juku: A Perfectly Preserved Edo-Period Post Town

Traditional Japanese post town Ouchi-juku covered in snow

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 —…

Nobu
December 15, 2025