Yokote/Yuzawa in Sightseeing tour/Guided tour

• Age 7～Age 100
• 2～3 hours

This plan includes admission to the Star Exploration Center SPACIA, where you can enjoy impressive images, and a meal at Ajidokoro Minori. Enjoy meals like Nishimonai soba and special Akita beef hayashi rice. Ajidokoro Minori is open from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Meal tickets cannot be exchanged for cash or given as change. Please present the screen of your purchased ticket at the general information desk at the main entrance. Available hours: 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM every day (last admission at 2:00 PM on the day of the event). Star Exploration Center SPACIA screening schedule: The screening schedule may change depending on the season, so please check the Akita Furusato Village website in advance. Closed: Tuesday, January 20th to Thursday, January 29th, 2026

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 100
• 2～3 hours

This plan allows you to enjoy the entire day at Wonder Castle, where you can enjoy trick art and a large ball pool, while watching images of the starry sky on a spectacular screen. Please present your purchased ticket screen at the main entrance, general information desk, or at the entrance of each facility. For Starry Sky Museum Spacia, please specify the program you would like to watch. <Available Hours> Daily 9:30-16:00 (last admission Sundays 14:50) Starry Sky Exploration Museum Spacia 10:30-16:00 (last admission 14:55) Akita Furusato Village Wonder Castle Business Hours Weekdays = 9:30-16:00 (last admission 15:30) Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and New Year's holidays = 9:30-16:40 (last admission 16:10) Closed = January 20th (Tue) - 29th (Thu), 2026

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 7～Age 100
• 2～3 hours

Enjoy an extraordinary world with the thrilling VR (Virtual Reality) experience. We offer three programs: "Dinosaur Caricatures," "Ultra Reverse Bungee Jumping," and "Horrifying! Dragging Punishment." You can also enjoy "Doraemon," "Earth Symphony," and "The Birth of the Planetarium" at the Starry Sky Museum Spacia, one of the largest planetariums in the Tohoku region! You can choose the program you want to watch at the attraction and Starry Sky Exploration Museum Spacia. Please select the program you want to watch at the general information desk at the main entrance and present the screen of your purchased ticket. VR Attraction Hours: Weekdays: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Last admission: 3:30 PM); Weekends, Holidays, and New Year's Holidays: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Last admission: 4:30 PM); Closed: January 20th (Tue) - 29th (Thu), 2026; Starry Sky Exploration Museum Spacia: 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Last admission: 2:55 PM)

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 90
• 3～4 hours

A great deal at Inagawa Ski Resort that includes a night lift ticket (from 5:30 PM to 9 PM) and a full rental set (skis, poles, and boots)! Popular with beginners and intermediate skiers! If you're looking to enjoy winter sports in Yuzawa City, this is the place to go! Inagawa Ski Resort, located in Yuzawa City, Akita Prefecture, is a popular ski resort for beginners and intermediate skiers with its beautifully groomed slopes. On weekdays, it is used for school ski lessons, and on weekends, it is bustling with ski lessons from local ski clubs. The resort is open for night skiing, and is popular with skiers and snowboarders on their way home from work, and is also used by local junior racing teams for pole setting practice sessions.

• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 99
• 2～3 hours
• 10:30 / 14:15

Take a tour with your guide through the quaint street lined with Japanese old houses! Masuda Town has prospered as a merchant town since the Edo period. Because this town has been the transportation hub, a variety of agricultural products gathered here. Merchants amassed wealth in their fields and created mansion towns. Inside these mansions, "Kura'' or a storehouse was built by wealthy merchants to store documents and household furniture. This storehouse is still inhabited and rare even in Japan. Feel the elegance in the detailed decorations such as white plaster, polished black plaster and lacquered interior. The townscape is home to many historic buildings of this area. Masuda town was designated as a National Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 2013. Find the storehouses of each mansion with its unique structure and decoration. In this guided tour, you will be able to visit two to three mansions with storehouse while receiving an explanation. English speaking guide accompanies you.

• For Rainy Days
• For Family

• Age 20～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 16:00 / 17:00 / 18:00

This plan includes a tour of an apple liquor and hard cider brewery and a tasting experience. This is a valuable experience that can only be found in Yokote! ■Experience time (approximately 30 minutes): 16:00-/17:00-/18:00-■Fee: 1,000 yen/person

• For Rainy Days

• Age 2～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00

Experience the traditional techniques that have been passed down for 300 years of Inaniwa Udon! "Manufacturing and Cooking Experience Course (60 minutes) - Learn how to hand-spin and boil delicious udon noodles." After registering at the Sato Yosuke Main Store, you will experience the experience at the nearest workshop. After the experience, you can enjoy a meal, shopping, and a factory tour at the Sato Yosuke Main Store. *The factory tour course is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and the New Year holidays.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 2～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00

Experience the traditional techniques that have been passed down for 300 years of Inaniwa Udon! "Hand-weaving Experience Course (30 minutes)" After registering at the Sato Yosuke Main Store, you will experience the experience at the nearest workshop. After the experience, you can enjoy a meal, shopping, and a factory tour at the Sato Yosuke Main Store. *The factory tour course is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and the New Year holidays.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 1～Age 99
• 4～5 hours
• 14:00 / 18:00

Admire Nishimonai Bon dance, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, in both street seat and box seat with view from above.August 16th during the Bon Festival is the day to bid farewell to ancestral spirits. As the sun sets over the Dewa mountains, the music of the yose-daiko drum resounds in Nishimonai, Ugo Town. Soon after, well-dressed children perform the Ondo dance on Honmachi Street where bonfires are lit, and the three-day Bon Odori begins.Skillful dancers who cover their faces with braided hats and hikosa hoods join in, and indigo-dyed costumes with gorgeous embroidery stand out against the bonfires. The dance has a fascinating curved beauty of interwoven graceful hand gestures and foot movements. The participants dance wholeheartedly in unison with their ancestral spirits, wishing for an abundant harvest. 100,000 viewers are intoxicated by the dreamy world of the musicians, dancers, and bonfires.The tour starts 18:00. If you interested in Nishimonai bon dance more, we can offer optional tour for free. You can learn how to dance Nishimonai Bon dance, and history. The optional tour starts 14:00 at meeting place.

• Age 0～Age 99
• 4～5 hours
• 16:00

Enjoy boat-ramming of the Okuribon Festival. The boats off square in pairs and are rammed against each other at the nose. Participants smash together, shouting and waving as fireworks go off overhead.The Boat-Ramming (Butsuke-ai)Ceremony: Each of the yakatabune that take part in the ceremony is prepared by the residents and shopkeepers of a different neighborhood of Yokote. While the boat are reused from previous festivals, every year the residents must fashion frames new straw hulls and fittings, a process that takes up to a month. Each of the participating neighborhoods builds a yakatabune, which must be carried from its home neighborhood to the dry riverbed of the Yokote River. On August 15, the boats are lined up during the bon odori so that visitors can see them up close. On August 16, the boats are pulled down to the river for the sending-off ceremony. This is followed by the “boat-ramming” (butsuke-ai) ceremony, which has become the highlight of the Okuribon Festival. The boats are brought back to the bridge, where they square off in pairs and are rammed against each other at the nose. Representatives from each neighborhood remain aboard the boats as they smash together, shouting and waving as fireworks go off overhead.

• For Family

• Age 17～Age 99
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00

Since you have come all the way to an unfamiliar town, why not take a leisurely walk with a guide? Let's learn about the history of life hidden in the ordinary townscape as we walk together. We will guide you through the streets of Yokote, which have developed around Yokote Station. During the walk, we will give you information on restaurants such as Yokote Yakisoba and other specialty shops, so please make use of it. After about an hour of walking around the town, it's teatime. Take a break at a cafe and reflect on your walk around the town. We will give you information on Yokote's specialties, so please use it to purchase souvenirs. ~Experience flow (morning session)~10:00 Meet at Yokote Station or Cafeteria Hirajo. Cafeteria Hirajo is a 5-minute walk from the east exit of JR Yokote Station. 10:05 Departure From Yokote Station, you will have an hour-long walk around the city while listening to the guide's stories and visiting various historical sites. 11:00 Arrive at Cafeteria Hirajo. The finish line of the Yokote walk is Cafeteria Hirajo. Refresh your tired body with a hot drink. Lunch is also available.

• For Rainy Days

• Age 7～Age 99
• 4～5 hours
• 16:00

This tour is held on 1st Feb.You will visit 2 local festivals.First, ``Gather round, everyone! Winter Festival".Thousands of mini Kamakura or igloo are made in the venue.Each of mini igloos are lit up and make fantastic mood in winter night.Leave the venue and after 1 hour ride, we will visit "Giant Icicles Festival".The giant icicles that form in the Oyasu Gorge are lit up during the festival, attracting many photographers to take pictures.The venue is lit up, creating a fantastical space that is popular with couples, and the winter fireworks that are set off in time with the music at the finale are a must-see.

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• Age 20～Age 100
• 4～5 hours

Why not try a new sake brewing experience at Oonagawa, a popular sake brewery in Omorimachi, Yokote City, in Kamimai Village? This special experience allows you to fully experience the "sake kingdom of Akita," nurtured by the unique climate and culture of a snowy country, through a brewing experience using abundant, pure meltwater and sake rice cultivated in-house, a tour of a sake brewery that continues tradition, and a tasting session where you can compare popular sakes. If you wish, we can recommend accommodations for the night before, so even those from outside the prefecture can participate with peace of mind. == ...

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• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity

• Age 20～Age 80
• Over 6 hours on the day /1 Day or more

Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, boasts one of Japan's highest hop harvests. This special experience, exclusive to participants, includes hop flower and field farming experiences, a tour of a brewery, and craft beer tastings—things you rarely get to experience in your everyday life. There'll also be a social gathering with producers in the evening, so you can talk to your heart's content about your love of beer and craft. Transportation within the city is also provided safely and securely, with free transportation. Experience Yokote's craft to your heart's content without having to worry about bus or train times. *If you wish, we can introduce you to a wonderful, recently renovated inn. Please let us know when you apply. (Accommodation fees are not included. Guests are responsible for paying any costs.) == ... Akita Furusato Village (free time for Akita gourmet food, souvenirs, etc.) ----- 12:00 Lunch: A perfect lunch with craft beer 13:15 Gelateria Sita: Looks like milk? Tastes like Yokote's signature pickles?! Enjoy a post-meal gelato dessert 14:00 JR Yokote Station End of tour

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• Age 10～Age 80
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00

A sightseeing tour around Yokote city on an electrically assisted bicycle with a cyclist (bicycle enthusiast) who knows the city inside and out. You can enjoy the seasonal winds, seasonal scenery, and the leisurely flow of time that only a bicycle can provide. Because it is electrically assisted, even those who are not confident in their physical strength can participate with peace of mind. The guide will take you on a reasonable route to make your day fun and memorable. 9:00 / Meet ~ City Tour ~ 12:00 / End