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Akita · Japan
In the destination Kakunodate and Lake Tazawa.
In the photo: Cherry trees and wooden fences in Kakunodate’s neighborhood, in Semboku.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Semboku is the inland municipality of Akita that includes Kakunodate, the castle town with its samurai district and weeping cherry trees, Lake Tazawa—the deepest lake in Japan—and Nyuto Onsen, a group of hot-spring inns in the forest of Mount Komagatake. The center is in Kakunodate, next to the Shinkansen station.
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The local experience
Wide streets with black wooden fences, gates and samurai houses from the Edo period, shaded by weeping cherry trees and centennial trees, with several residences open to visitors.
Bank of the Hinokinai River in Kakunodate with about 2 km of cherry trees planted in 1934, forming a tunnel of flowers between late April and early May and a green avenue the rest of the year.
Round crater lake, 423 meters deep, the deepest in Japan, with dark blue water that does not freeze, featuring the golden statue of Tatsuko and a red torii at the water’s edge.
A group of seven secluded hot-spring inns in the forest of Mount Komagatake, each with its own source, including Tsurunoyu, with thatched-roof buildings and an outdoor bath of milky white water.
Beyond the guide
