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- Aizu Buke Yashiki 38 rooms, 328 tatami: the minister's house, rebuilt from drawings found in the post-war years.
- Aquamarine Fukushima It lost 90% of its fish in 2011 and reopened within four months: today it tells visitors the story.
- Azuma-Kofuji and Jōdo-daira In spring a snow rabbit appears on the volcano: it is the signal to sow rice.
- Byakkotai Graves, Iimori-yama At sixteen or seventeen they killed themselves believing the castle had fallen: it had not yet fallen.
- Goshiki-numa (the lakes of the five colours) Thirty lakes born from the 1888 collapse: each colour comes from the minerals dissolved in the water.
- Haguro Shrine, Shinobuyama A 12-metre waraji for the Niō's foot: half in winter, half in August since 1970.
- Hanami-yama Park A farmer opened it free of charge in 1959: seventy years on, picnics are still banned.
- J-Village (Jヴィレッジ) Japan's first national football training centre, straddling the municipalities of Naraha and Hirono. After the 2011 disaster the facility…
- Lake Hibara Formed in 1888 by the volcano's landslide: the largest barrier lake in Japan.
- Miharu Takizakura A thousand years old, with no fence: one of Japan's three most famous cherry trees, a monument since 1922.
- Mount Bandai In 1888 it killed 477 people: since then ‘Bandai-type eruption’ has been a term used worldwide.
- Odazuki Storehouse District A 1972 exhibition and a 1975 NHK documentary made it ‘the town of storehouses’.
- Ōuchi-juku Not sold, not rented, not demolished: the pact that has protected the thatch since 1981.
- Oze National Park — Hinoemata side A raised bog across four prefectures: Hiuchigatake, 2,356 m, is the roof of Tōhoku.
- Ryokan Ōkawasō (会津芦ノ牧温泉 大川荘) A historic ryokan opened in 1953, the first at the Aizu Ashinomaki onsen, with open-air baths overlooking the river gorge. Address…
- Sabako-yu, Iizaka Onsen Bashō slept here on 2 May 1689, with fleas and a leaking roof: he wrote about it himself.
- Sazae-dō (Entsū Sansō-dō) The way up and the way down never cross: double-spiral ramps from 1796, rare anywhere in the world.
- Shirakawa Komine Castle Timber from Inariyama, where fighting took place in 1868: bullets remain in the tower's beams.
- Spa Resort Hawaiians Founded in 1966 to give work to coal miners: their story is the film Hula Girls.
- Tenkyokaku (天鏡閣) Western-style villa from 1908, a national Important Cultural Property, on Lake Inawashiro.
- Tsuruga Castle (Aizuwakamatsu-jō) Rebuilt in concrete in 1965: in 2011 the roof went back to red, as in the nineteenth century.