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People's shouts and the sound of Japanese drums resound. The sound of firecrackers and the smell of gunpowder hangs in t...

Fireworks festivals are one of the summer traditions in Japan. Every summer, fireworks festivals are held all over the ...

The Sea of Japan in the raging winter. Overcast skies. Winter thunder, which is rare in the world. Rice fields in Shonai...

Covers rice fields covered with golden ears of rice. Locusts are flying around, and cosmos called "autumn cherry blossom...

Rice-plants in a lush green field. They are tall and you can't see the water surface. Summer in Shonai has many sunny da...

The plum blossom blooms noblely with a faint sweet scent. It heralds the arrival of spring before the cherry blossoms. A...

Legendary Shonai rice, "Kamenoo" - turtle tail. A variety of rice that became the roots of delicious rice made in variou...

Tiny reddish-brown beech bud scales scattered on the white snow. The spring scenery of Mt. Gassan, which is said to be "...

2446 stone steps. A mysterious row of cedar that is over 300 years old. Mt. Haguro in the Shonai region. A long time ago...

An active volcano of 2,236m above sea level to extend over the prefectural border with Yamagata and Akita, Mt. Chokai, t...