AKITA Welcome to Kazuno Transportation Village of healing forest and water By train By highway bus KAZUNO Tokyo Akita Aomori Morioka Sendai Ikebukuro Towada Hachimantai National Park Tohoku Shinkansen Ohu Line Ohu Line Asunaro Michinoku Night bus Towada Hachimantai National Park 2 hrs 11 mins 1 hrs 33 mins 1 hrs 10 mins 1 hrs 31 mins 1 hrs 20 mins 3 hrs 45 mins “Jupiter” 8 hrs 30 mins Morioka Odate Kosaka KAZUNO Hanawa Hanawa Line Hanawa Line 1 hrs 13 mins 2 hrs 1 hrs 56 mins 56 mins 2 hrs 15 mins Kazuno Hanawa Aomori Odate Noshiro By air Nagoya Tokyo Sapporo Tokyo (Centrair) Osaka Seoul Sapporo Osaka (Itami) ANA JAL/ANA JAL JAL JAL KAL ANA JAL 65 mins 50 mins 75 mins 80 mins 90 mins 140 mins 55 mins 90 mins Odate Noshiro Aomori Iwate Hanamaki By car By car By car 60 mins 60 mins 80 mins Kazuno *Certain flights might not be available on certain days. Hachimantai Lake Towada Tanpo (Towada Hachimantai National Park) Komachi Hanawa Bayashi (Towada Hachimantai National Park) Akita Prefecture Hachimantai is a natural museum that allows visitors Kazuno This 327 meter deep lake was formed from a volcanic to feel the changing of the seasons. Enjoy the ever eruption. You can enjoy great views of the cobalt changing landscape through the volcanic activity, blue beauty of the lake from a sightseeing boat. Goshogawara alpine plants, marshlands and hot springs. Shin-Aomori Aomori Aoimori Railwa Aomori Airport y 7 Mt. Hakkoda Shirakami Line Gono Line Hirosaki 102 103 (Resort Shirakami) 101 Owani Hirosaki Apple Road Interchange Aomori Hachinohe Shirakami Mountains 454 Kosaka Junction Odate Kita 101 282 Kosaka Interchange Interchange Lake Towada Odate ay Jukai Line 103 essw Ohu Line 103 Towada Interchange Noshiro Minami 7 Nida Interchange Manaka Hanawa Line Kazuno Hachimantai Interchange Interchange Hachinohe Expr Futatsui Odate Minami Interchange Oga Shirakami 341 Interchange Kazuno Hanawa Station 285 Odatenoshiro Airport Matsuo Hachimantai Hachimantai Interchange 105 Hachimantai Akita Aspite Line Lake Tazawako Morioka 7 46 Iwate 13 Kakunodate ita Shinkansen Ak Omagari Kitakami Junction Iwate Hanamaki Airport Akita Hiraizumi Maesawa Interchange Hiraizumi Ichinoseki hinkansen Tohoku Expressway ohoku S Miyagi T Sendai Lake Towada Contact Kazuno City Hall (Head of Tourism) 4-1 Arata Hanawa, Kazuno, Akita 018-5292 Japan Phone: 0186-30-0248 Fax: 0186-30-1515 URL http://www.city.kazuno.akita.jp E-mail [email protected] Kazuno Kanko Bussan Kosha Hachimantai 11-4 Shindenmachi Hanawa, Kazuno, Akita 018-5201 Japan Phone: 0186-22-0555 Fax: 0186-22-0222 URL http://www.ink.or.jp/~antler/index.php E-mail [email protected] Hachimantai Hot Springs Village There are various types of hot springs that visitors can enjoy Hot spring in these volcanic highland hot springs. Festivals Rest and heal in a hot spring History and traditions that are passed on down Fukenoyu Hot Spring Oyu Hot Springs Village This famous hot spring is the oldest in Kazuno, founded 800 years ago. Hanawa Bayashi The Hanawa Bayashi has been designated as a national important intangible folk cultural asset, and is said to be the best Festival music in Japan. Competing musical accompaniments on 10 gorgeous festival carts walk through town. Yuze Hot Springs Village Glow with natural beauty from the steaming waters of this hot springs in the mountains. Yuze Hotel Ryokan Ryumontei-Chiba Dainichido-Bugaku Kemanai (UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage) Bon Odori This traditional performance art has roughly This Bon Odori is a nationally designated Tracing the course of history a 1300 year history. Performers wearing golden important intangible folk cultural asset. masks dance the “Godaisonmai” and other In this exciting dance, participants with Bugaku in this performance of a nationally their heads wrapped in towels dance in History designated intangible folk cultural asset. circles around fires set up on the road. Famous delicacies Old Sekizen Liquor Store F This three-layer interlocking wooden building with a lofted ceiling built in 1905 is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. ood Oyu Stone Circle Hall Oyu Stone Circle This is an exhibition facility dedicated to the mys- tery of the stone circles. In addition to exhibits of (National exclusive historic site) Jomon Period pottery, there is an experiential This is a large-scale late Jomon period ruins featuring learning facility that allows visitors to try recreat- two rings of stone, Nonakado and Manza. ing pottery and earthenware. e of thplac he bir o. o is t ritanp Kazun ous ki ’s fam Akita Historic Osarizawa Mine Osarizawa Mine boasts 1300 years of history. Now, visitors can see, learn, and experience this site. Aogaki no Mon Gate Visitors can see 9 million year old crustal faults and Experience panning for gold dust reproductions of miners from the Keicho period. At the Historic Osarizawa Mine, visitors can pan “Antler” Roadside Station Kiritanpo (Modernization industrial heritage) for gold dust and then attach the gold dust they This facility features many interactive areas letting you experience Kazuno Kazuno offal find to a card and bring it home. Kazuno is the birthplace of Akita’s famous kiritanpo. fully. This includes the “Festival Exhibition Hall” displays Hanawabayashi “Kiritanpo nabe” is a local dish with chicken and The local style is grilled like Mongolian mutton carts and the “Tezukuri Experience Hall” where visitors can make their own vegetables boiled together. If you’re hungry, we barbecue. Once the secret sauce is added, you’ll Kiritanpo-making experience kiritanpo. There are also plenty of souvenirs for sale. recommend “Misozuke tanpo” with sweet miso fall in love at first bite. roasted over coals. Winter Enjoy the winter here! A winter wonderland of outdoor activities The great expanse of Aomori fir trees Snow shoe trekking Akita Hachimantai Ski Area Hanawa Ski Resort Suishozan Ski Resort spanning from Gentamori to the peak Put on western-style snow shoes and take This ski resort is on the Hachimantai An excellent array of facilities including a These ski resort has many runs perfect Hachimantai Pork Kazuno Beef Kazuno Peaches of the Far North Kazuno Apples of Hachimantai is said to be one of the a walk around Hachimantai in the winter. Aspite Line at an altitude of 1000 meters. jump platform and a cross country course for beginners and those with intermedi- These brand name pigs are raised in an ideal natural Raising these cows on an organic diet has made this These peaches are harvested later than others, and The extreme difference between the warm and “three great forests of Japan.” that can be used during the summer as well. ate skill, an idea place for families. environment, given carefully selected feed, and meat both healthy and extremely delicious. are on the market in mid-September. In order to cold seasons in Kazuno give the apples a high sugar under careful health supervision. maintain a consistent quality, each one is treated content, and fill your mouth with their sweet juices with care. when you bite into them..