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An ancient Engishiki-listed shrine in Daisen City preserving the Rokusho tradition of venerating six heavenly and earthly deities

A branch of the Haguro faith of the sacred Dewa Sanzan mountains, brought to the Akita inland as a shrine of farming and mountain deities

Museum dedicated to the tradition of the Omagari Fireworks Contest, Japan's premier competition dating to its inaugural event in 1913

Ruins of a 9th-century imperial fortress enclosing 3.6 km — one of the best-preserved ancient stockades in the Tohoku region

A Hachimangu shrine guarding the historic Kowakubi hot-spring village on the Omono River, near a Registered Cultural Property inn

A Hie Shrine serving as Omagari's guardian deity, drawing large crowds during the celebrated Omagari Fireworks Competition

A Hachimangu shrine on the Kakumagawa river that has long guarded the waterway trade and farming of this Akita inland district

Shrine to the Mononobe clan deity Amenohiwashi, home of the Karamatsu-odori dance designated a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

A ritual site of the ancient Koshio faith — the northern guardian deity venerated alongside Akita Castle from the Nara period

The guardian shrine of Omagari, hosting the All-Japan Fireworks Competition since 1910 — over a century of pyrotechnic tradition