Kakunodate | The hometown of Japanese samurai is also a famous place for cherry blossom and maple viewing.

Kakunodate, located in Akita Prefecture in the northeast of Japan, is known as "Mutsu's Little Kyoto". This is the hometown of samurai with a long history in Japan, and the samurai mansion with black wall panels in the Edo period is still maintained. Although after more than 380 years The baptism of time, but the street architecture here really hasn't changed much. 🌈Recommendation reason: Today, many place names of Kyoto can still be seen in this small town. Kakunodate, surrounded by mountains on three sides, gradually developed into a village inhabited by samurai due to its excellent terrain for building a castle town during the Edo period ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. The status of the samurai in the Edo period was very high, and most of the samurai living in Kakunodate were middle and upper-level samurai. The houses are naturally not humble, and they are all elegant. ✨Kakunodate is a beautiful place with pink cherry blossoms in spring, green bamboo in summer, red leaves in autumn, and white snow in winter. Especially when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom every year, it is the most beautiful time here. ✨More than 400 weeping cherry trees were planted along the Samurai Mansion Avenue. Presumably coming here in spring, the landscape is more spectacular than autumn! ✨The black board walls and the maple leaves that are about to climb out of the wall make this hometown of samurai in late autumn seem to have returned to the Edo period. ♥️How to shop: ✨Kakunokan is not big, you can finish shopping in half a day. Get out of Kakunodate Station and go straight along the avenue, then follow the signs for ten minutes to the most famous samurai house. ✨Famous attractions include Ishiguro House, Aoyagi House, Nishinomiya House, etc. 🚇Transportation: How to get there: Take the Akita Shinkansen directly from Tokyo and get off at Kakunodate Station, about a three-hour drive.