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Kamakura Snow Festival：
Yokote City is located in the mountainous area in the south of Akita, which is a heavy snow area and where the heavier it snows the more cultures are remained. Especially, Kamakura Festival is a traditional winter event in the snowy area of Tohoku and Niigata.
Access and Getting Around
By train
55 minutes from Akita Station to Yokote Station via the Ou Line, 1 hour 15 minutes from Morioka Station(via the Akita Shinkansen, transfer at Omagari Station) to Yokote Station.
By bus
7 hours 50 minutes from Tokyo to Yokote by night bus, 1 hour 30 minutes from Akita Station with 4 bus services per day, 2 hours 50 minutes from Sendai to Yokote, 2 bus services per day.
By car
50 minutes from Akita Station, 1 hour 30 minutes from Morioka Station.
Features
-Seasonal Attractions -Festivals
Kamakura Snow Festival is a traditional winter event in the snowy area of Tohoku and Niigata.Kamakura is a custom that people set up an altar in the "house"(snow cave) made of snow and worship the God of water,and the Kamakura of Yokote is the representative one among them which has continued for 400 years.Children are in the snow cave where candles are lighted and entertain visitors with liquors ...
-Culture
It is a facility with a gallery where visitors can sense the traditional event "Kamakura" of Yokote throughout the year.Even if it is impossible to go there in winter, experience of Kamakura is possible here.In addition, four seasons of Yokote are introduced by video here....
Accommodation around Yokote
