Nikaho

Nikaho straddles the coastal plain between the Sea of Japan and Mount Chōkai in Akita Prefecture, a position that joins the shoreline to the mountain’s lower slopes. Its Kisakata district records a dramatic shift in the terrain: the 1804 Kisakata earthquake raised a lagoon, leaving its former islands standing among rice fields. When the poet Matsuo Bashō visited in 1689, Kisakata was still a waterscape, later immortalised in his travel classic The Narrow Road to the Deep North. See how Nikaho fits into Akita’s coast and the Mount Chōkai area by browsing webcams nearby.

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