• Premiere Half-Day Tour of Akita.
• In this tour, you can see how samurais(warriors) lived in samurai residences.
• At one Samurai house, the head of the family or a staff member will tell us about the residence, where it is still used for living. You can witness samurai swords, armor, kimonos, etc. You can take a nice photo wearing a samurai helmet.
• There are cute shops in the street of Samurai residences, such as a miso and soy sauce shop, a local craft shop, a Japanese sake shop, and a traditional snack shop.
• At Japanese Sake shop, you can try tasting of a couple of Japanese sake for free.
• If you have time, you can visit Kabazaiku museum where a craft man is demonstrating to make local handy craft beautiful "Kabazaiku."
• In addition, you can choose cute kabazaiku products from lots of varieties in the shop.
• On the way back to the Akita city, we can drop in a roadside station for a restroom break and shopping.
• I promise you can enjoy this half day tour totally.

We will visit two samurai houses still remain from feudal era. The time include transportation from the port to Kakunodate Town and lunch. To have a Lunch or not is depends on you. From Akita city to Kakunodate town, it takes about 1 hour and half one way. So you have approximately 2 hours at Kakunodate samurai town In this 2 hours, you can visit Ishiguro Samurai house first. You can hear about Ishiguro house from a staff member. There is a museum to see on the backside. After 1 hour stay in Ishiguro house, we move to another Samurai house "Aoyagi Samurai House." Aoyagi house has large area which consists of a main buildinge and other several old Japanese buildings. You can see lots of samurai armors, matchlock guns, Japanese swords and kimonos. You can also try samurai helmets on and take pictures. If you are redey to eat lunch, there is an udon restaurant serving local Inaniwa Udon. Enjoy your time in Kakunodate Samurai town.