Museums Watarai Honten Sake Brewery Alena Eckelmann Dewa no yuki-one of the best sake brews in Dewa Sanzan and the favorite of Japan's Prime Ministers
Culture The Mummy of Dainichibo Temple Alena Eckelmann The Dewa Sanzan area is a mystical land of mountain ascentics and of "living Buddhas"- monks who mummified themselves in order to achieve enlightenment
Festivals Kurokawa Noh Alena Eckelmann Kurokawa, a small village near the mountains of Dewa Sanzan in Yamagata Prefecture, is preserving a 500-year-old tradition of Noh theater
9 Arts & Crafts Chikeiken's Hidden Treasures Alena Eckelmann are farmers in a so-called "fruit village" at the foot of the Dewa... Sanzan mountains.
14 Culture Yamadera in Winter Alena Eckelmann mecca for Shugendo and this spiritual tradition is well alive around the Dewa... Sanzan mountains, yet here in Yamadera there don't seem to be anymore
Culture Wara Craft Master Saito-san Alena Eckelmann Naruse-san from the Haguro Tourism Office, who is also a Dewa Sanzan yamabushi... children and interested groups of people as well as to visitors to the Dewa
Historical Kaikoji Temple Justin Velgus Not far from the sacred mountains of Dewa Sanzan and Dainichichobo in Yamagata
Historical Exploring Yamagata the Basho Way Alena Eckelmann climbed Mount Haguro, Mount Gassan and Mount Yudono, the Three Mountains of Dewa