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266  JAP AN REGION B Y REGION Oma
SHIMOKITA
Hokkaido PENINSULA Mutsu
Exploring Northern Honshu
Minmaya Wakinosawa
Northern Honshu is much more rural than Central and
Western Honshu. Snow-covered mountains, thick forests, Hiranai Rokkasho
and rice paddies characterize most of the region, with Goshogawara AOMORI Noheji
towns and ski resorts fairly evenly scattered. North of the
major city of Sendai, tiny pine-covered islands lie in calm Fukaura Iwaki-san AOMORI Misawa
bays facing the Pacific Ocean, forming some of the most 1,625 m
HIROSAKI
beautiful coastal scenery in Japan. The six northeastern Hachinohe
prefectures of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi, and Taneichi
Fukushima make up the area known as Tohoku. This Hachimori Takanosu Odate Ninohe
chapter also includes parts of Niigata, Tochigi, Gunma, Noshiro NATIONAL PARK Kuji
and Ibaraki prefectures.
OGA AKITA Kuzumaki
PENINSULA Fudai
Gojome
Oga Moriyoshi-yama
1,454 m Iwate-san Iwaizumi
2,041 m
TOWADA-HACHIMANTAI
Akita MORIOKA
KAKUNODATE Miyako
Todoga-saki
Omagari IWATE Yamada
Honjo HANAMAKI
Yokote Ou-sanmyaku TONO
Kisakata Kitakami Kamaishi
Tobi-shima Mizusawa
Chokai-san Ogachi Ofunato
2,237 m
HIRAIZUMI Rikuzen-Takata
Sakata Kaneyama Ichinoseki Kesennuma
DEWA SANZAN
TSURUOKA
Shinjo TOBOKU EXPRESSWAY
Shizugawa
Obanazawa
A kabuto-zukuri-style farmhouse in the grounds of Chido Museum, Tsuruoka Atsumi YAMAGATA TOBOKU SHINKANSEN MIYAGI
Sanpoku
Awa-shima Tendo Ishinomaki
Hajiki-zaki MATSUSHIMA
Murakami Yamagata SENDAI
Sights at a Glance Aikawa Ryotsu Arakawa BANDAI-ASAHI NATIONAL PARK Natori
1 Nikko pp268–75 Nanyo Iwanuma
2 Nikko National Park Niigata Shibata Yonezawa
3 Mashiko Ogi SADO Iide-san Soma
4 Aizu Wakamatsu ISLAND Niitsu 2105 m
5 Kitakata Shirone KITAKATA Fukushima Haramachi
6 Bandai-Asahi BANETSU EXPRESSWAY Nihonmatsu
National Park NIIGATA
7 Sado Island Nagaoka Koriyama Namie
8 Tsuruoka Kashiwazaki AIZU WAKAMATSU Otakine-yama
1193 m
9 Dewa Sanzan Ojiya FUKUSHIMA Sukagawa Tomioka
0 Sendai Itoigawa Koide Tajima Ishikawa
JOETSU SHINKAUSEN
q Matsushima Joetsu
w Hiraizumi Muika NIKKO TOBOKU EXPRESSWAY Shirakawa
e Hanamaki Hiuchiga-take NATIONAL Kuroiso Iwaki
r Tono 2346 m PARK
t Morioka Mikuni-toge Shirane-san Yaita Daigo Kitaibaraki
1244 m
y Kakunodate 2578 m NIKKO
u Oga Peninsula TOCHIGI Takahagi
i Towada-Hachimantai Maebashi Utsunomiya MASHIKO
National Park 0 kilometers 50 Tokyo Katsuta
o Hirosaki 0 miles 30 Oyama Kasama
p Aomori Shimodate Mito
a Shimokita Peninsula
IBARAKI
For hotels and restaurants see p307 and pp337–8
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