<Samurai horsemen running up to command-in-chief place> Continued to previous Soma Nomaoi(野馬追) festival article introduced armor horse racing, we introduce Shinki Sodatsusen, samurai horsemen competing for shrine flags. Below is the official website and this year is commerce on July 28th- 3</samurai>…

<Kacchu Keiba, armor horse racing 1> The festive event called Soma Nomaoi(野馬追) has been held over 1000 year-old history in Soma District of Fukushima. It originate in 10th Century when samurai warriors of this region secretly conducted the military exercises related with </kacchu>…

<Kamanuma Pond 1> Last article, we introduced the Issaikyo peak (一切経山) acend route attraction. This time we introduce decend route attraction such as Kamanuma Pond. Not only ascend highlight to the Issaikyo peak, but also decend side trail is highly re</kamanuma>…

<Goshikinuma on cloudy day> Issaikyo peak (一切経山) elevated 1949 meters in Fukushima can be reached 80-min. hike from the Jododaira (浄土平) Marshland, where the parking place is located and several hiking trails starting point. <Entrance to the mountain area> <Unmelted snow trail> </unmelted></entrance></goshikinuma>

<Wood deck with Skunk cabbage> Continued to previous article of Oze National Park, we introduce this area. www.tohoku-guide.com Oze National Park consists of three parts, Oze area, Ozegahara Marsh, and Lake Ozenuma & famous mountain such as Mt Shibutsu, Mt Hiuchigatake</wood>…

<Lookout Mt Hiuchigatake> We visited Oze National park and introduce some of their attractiveness. Oze is a national park spanning the four prefecture of Gunma, Fukushima, Niigata and Tochigi. And it is a nice hiking destination where has several surrounding mount</lookout>…

<Look over mountain range from the top> As earlier introduced, we climbed up to Mount Adatara on the opening of a mountain to climbers of May 20th(Sun). And introduced the scenery of ascend route previous article. www.tohoku-guide.com This time, we introduce decend route that i</look>…

<Opening event near top of the mountain> We climbed up to Mount Adatara on the opening of a mountain to climbers last month. From May 20th(Sun), it is beginning the mountaineering season this year. We introduce the latest Mount Adatara scenery using photos in the right order. Fo</opening>…

<Mountain Stream with bustling autumn leaf 1> Continued from last article, introducing the attractiveness of Mount Adatara in Autumn. Below photos are took during autumn leaf season. www.tohoku-guide.com <Waterfall spot along mountain stream> <Bridge across the stream 1> <Bridge across the stream 2>…</bridge></bridge></waterfall></mountain>

<Mount Adatara summit 1> Mount Adatara (安達太良山) is a stratovolcano in Fukushima and also one of Japan's 100 famous mountains. The mountain is multiple volcanoes forming a broad, forested mountain range. The active peak crater is surrounded by hot springs and </mount>…

<Look over walking & cycling paths> Nicchu Line is the name of the train line that used to run around Kitakata city in Fukushima. It is 3km distance from existing JR Kitakata station. The train tracks have been shutdown in 1984 and changed to 3km walking & cycling paths wit</look>…

<From the main entrance view> Tsurugajo castle(鶴ヶ城) was built in 1384 and changed the loards many times between the different rulers of the Aizu area in Fukushima. <Zoom-in angle> Below is the previous article introduced Tsurugajo castle. www.tohoku-guide.com This year from mid-A</zoom-in></from>…

We introduced the information and photo of Tohoku' attractive spots this blog. In addition to that we regulary posted the photos in Instagram . Today we introduced the ranking of "like" acquired photo (>10) in +Google for your reference. <Ranked 5th> </ranked>…

<Entrance flower garden> Hanamiyama (花見山) is a park on the slopes surrounding farmland in Fukushma. <Walking course in the park> The park was started by local farmers planted ornamental flower trees on the slopes land andopened to the public in 1959. Every year, thousands of visitors com</walking></entrance>…

<From the left front angle> We introduced latest cherry blossom situation in Miharu Takizakura (三春滝桜). Miharu Takizakura is one of the three great cherry trees of Japan. Attached photo is taken on April 8th morning and now is in last minutes of full bloom. Below</from>…

<From the left front angle> Miharu Takizakura (三春滝桜) is though to be 1000-years-old cherry tree with vivid crimson color in Fukushima. Below is the previous article introduced Miharu Takizakura. www.tohoku-guide.com <From the right front angle> This year from April begin, its cherry blosso</from></from>…

We introduced the information and photo of Tohoku' attractive spots this blog. In addition to that we regulary posted the summery of each article and photo in +Google. Today we introduced the ranking of "+1" acquired photo (>10) in +Google…

<Main street> Ouchijuku (大内宿) is a former post town along the Aizu-Nishi trade route. We previously introduce the scenery in autumn season. www.tohoku-guide.com This time, we update the photo in winter season, <thached roof house with snow> <Dog walking on the snow> <Overview of the town> </overview></dog></thached></main>

<Takine Goten> We introduce bukuma limetone cave (あぶくま洞) in the previou article. <Outside of the cave> This time we update the picture took last year. <Limestone > <One of the Limestone highlight> <One of the Limestone highlight> (Access) It takes from JR Koriyama station to Kanmata station by JR Ba…</one></one></limestone></outside></takine>

<Limestone> Abukuma cave (あぶくま洞) is the limestone discovered in 1969, 3,300 meters of caves naturally were formed about 80 million years ago in Fukushima. 600m of the cave is open to visitor as tour route and additional 120m is exploring route w</limestone>…

For Bandai Grandeco resort in Fukushima, we update latest actioncam movie shot at one of the finest powder snow this March. ・Previous Grandeco resort article www.tohoku-guide.com ・Official Grandeco resort site Aizu Ski Resort | GRANDECO …

<Entrance to the ski resort> For Bandai area in Fukushima, there are several nice ski resort such as Altz Bandai, Nekoma resort as we introduced before. In addition to that, one of the amazing ski resort is Grandeco snow resort. <Grandeko Snow resort> Aizu Ski Resort | GRANDECO RESORT HOT</grandeko></entrance>…

<Looking over Bandai mountain> Yesterday we introduced Urabandai (裏磐梯) scenery in autumn and early-winter seasonwith photo. www.tohoku-guide.com Today we update late-winter scenery of Urabandai which is more calm and silent atmosphere visitor can enjoy compared with</looking>…

<Autumn leaves near boat ride place> Yesterday we posted about Urabandai (裏磐梯) for summer season. This time, we introduce the autumn and early winter season scenery with photo. www.tohoku-guide.com (Autumn) <Green colored lake> <Lake view with autumn leaves> (Early winter) </lake></green></autumn>

<Blue colored lake view> As we previously posted about the Bandai (磐梯) below. It is an attractive outdoor destination offering hiking chance from spring to autumn and skiing near there in winter. www.tohoku-guide.com This time we explain more about hiking area </blue>…

Wakasagi, Japanese pond smelt fishing is one of the traditional Japanese winter acitivity. It is held on frozen lakes in some areas in Japan. This time we introduce, Lake Hibara in Fukushima where the fishing is available from the mid-Jan.…

For Bandai Nekoma resort in Fukushima, we update latest course movie shot at one of the finest powder snow on natural-terrain in Nekoma resort this year. Previous article is below. tohoku-guide.hatenablog.com www.tohoku-guide.com www.nekom…

For Alts Bandai Ski resort in Fukushima, we update latest image movie shot at Alts Bandai resort this year. Previous article is below. The resort offer 29 slopes await with deep powder snow for all level of skier & snowboarder. tohoku-guid…

Miharu Takizakura (三春滝桜) is said to be 1000 years old, Miharu Takizakura is a cherry tree with vivid crimson color. Takizakura literally means waterfall cherry tree. The town’s name, Miharu means three springs, it become flowering disp…

Takayu Onsen (高湯温泉), is a small hot spring town in the middle of Mount Azuma in Fukushima in Tohoku. It was developed about 400 years ago, and there are dozen ryokans and hotels located near the entrance to the Bandai Azuma Skyline. Th…