Music Shinjo Matsuri 2024 Late Aug Shinjo, in Yamagata, hosts this annual festival in which giant floats are paraded through the city.
Culture Hanagasa Matsuri 2024 Early Aug Hanagasa Matsuri is a dance festival which originiated in Obanazawa but is now celebrated across Yamagata every summer.
Museums Sankyo Rice Warehouses Alena Eckelmann The heritage of Sakata City in Yamagata Prefecture tells the stories of rich rice merchants and of poor day laborers in rice warehouses.
10 Arts & Crafts Shogi Time at Tendo Town Alena Eckelmann Tendo Town in Yamagata Prefecture is the home of Shogi (Japanese chess)... Stay for a night at Tendo Central Hotel or at Hotel Pearl City Tendo before
Culture Yamadera: The Temple in the Mountain Alena Eckelmann bug, his Wanderlust took him north and deep into the Tohoku region in Yamagata... his 5-month arduous journey he also ventured through the Province of Yamagata
Festivals Fireworks Festival in Tsuruoka Rashaad Jorden Every year in August, the city welcomes more than 25,000 people to the... First held in 1991, the Akagawa Hanabi attracts visitors from all over Yamagata
Culture Tendo Tower Hannah Warren Enough appeal, in fact, to justify a stop in the small city in Yamagata... that I was very happy with; a wonderful handmade souvenir of my time in Yamagata
14 Culture Yamadera in Winter Alena Eckelmann This "Mountain Temple" is one of Yamagata Prefecture's most... In recent years Yamagata has become known as a mecca for Shugendo and this