Akita city

 It is located in the Akita Prefecture and is the prefectural city. The population is about 300 000 inhabitants, Akita being the biggest coastal city in the Tohoku region. Although it is a very quiet town, in front of the station stands a big mall that is convenient to enjoy a lunch and buy souvenirs. Before that the kanto matsuri festival starts, you could enjoy a free time visit of the Kubota castle’s ruins and the Senshukoen park. Another interesting site is the fine arts museum of Akita exposing the works of a famous painter : Tsuguharu Foujita.

【The Senshukoen park 】

The Senshukoen park is the old domain of the Kubota castle which formerly belonged to the Satake clan whose generation followed during 267 years from Keicho 7 era (1602) to the Meiji period (1869), the end of the feudalism in Japan. The first generation of the lords who lived in the castle was Satake Yoshinobu, who decided to build the castle on a hill during the Keicho 8 era, so this kind of construction is called in japanese Hirayama. The park has been made during Meiji period in 1869 by the master of modern parks designers that time, Nagaoka Yasuhei. Few years after, Ryouchi Kano, graduated of a synology school in Akita decided to name the park “senshu”. Actually, Senshu is written 千 which means 1000 and shu 秋 which means autumn and could be also read as aki.

 

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【Akita prefectural fine art museum】

The museum is well-known for exposing the works of a famous japanese painter, Tsugouharu Foujita. The museum opened since 1967 with the intention to exhibit national and international art collections of the Masakichi Hirano foundation (1895 -1989). Hirano was a close friend of Foujita. Here are exposed his greatest works as “Akita's event” 秋田の行事. 50 years after it opened, in 2013, the museum was designed by the very famous architect Tadao Ando. The museum still exhibits a very wide range of different themes.

 

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