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Akita (秋田) is the capital of Akita prefecture in the northern Tohoku region of Japan's Honshu island.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By plane

Akita has an airport, with domestic flights coming in from such places as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Sapporo. Buses connect the airport with Akita station (40 minutes, ¥890).

[edit] By train

The Akita Shinkansen provides hourly service from Tokyo station to Akita station. Trains are all-reserved and are known as Komachi (こまち) trains. The trains only stop at Ueno, Omiya, Sendai and Morioka before slowing down to travel to Akita over conventional rail lines. Trains also reverse direction once at Omagari, the stop before Akita.

Komachi trains from Tokyo reach Akita in four hours and cost ¥16810 each way, so it might be wise to get a rail pass of some kind before making the journey. Beware that the Komachi trains are coupled to Hachinohe-bound Hayate trains, which split at Morioka, but as all seats are reserved the chance of getting in the wrong car is minimal at best.

The Akebono overnight sleeper train from Tokyo's Ueno station, and the Nihonkai # 1 and # 3 from Osaka and Kyoto, stop in Akita before terminating in Aomori.

[edit] By bus

Odakyu Bus runs an overnight bus service, the "Flora", from Shinjuku to Akita. Two departures each night (8-9 hours, ¥9450 one-way).

[edit] Get around

[edit][add listing] See

Senshu Park is a beautiful place to take a walk, especially during the spring season when the cherry blossoms are blooming.

[edit][add listing] Do

[edit][add listing] Eat

There are a lot of foods in this prefecture. One of the popular local foods is "kiritannpo". This region produces good rice. So this food is made of rice. How to cook kiritannpo is very simple. Local people eat it as “kiritannponabe” and often eat it in the winter. It is very delicious!

[edit][add listing] Drink

As one of Japan's most famous rice-growing regions, Akita has some of the best local sake in all of Japan. A great place to find many different bottles for sale (and usually free samples) is in the Prefectural Goods Shop in the basement of the Atorion Concert Hall.

[edit] Get out

Kakunodate, one of Japan's last true historical towns and filled with old samurai houses open to the public, is only about an hour away by shinkansen.

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