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What to do and see in Minamisoma, Tohoku: The Best Things to do
Minamisōma is a city located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2017, the city had an estimated population of 55,880 in 26,093 households, and a population density of 140 persons per km².
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1. Real Fukushima
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5.0 based on 24 reviews
Come and see today's Fukushima and about nuclear accident. Our standard tour takes you into the current exclusion zone in Futaba and Okuma towns with an official permission, which is a special offer from Real Fukushima, as well as the surrounding areas in Odaka, Namie and Tomioka towns where the evacuation orders have been lifted recently and people are gradually coming back to their home town. The total amount of the radiation exposure through the tour is around 3-5 micro Sievert. You may also encounter and talk to local people who have returned to this area after the 5-6 year evacuation. Our English guide will help you to discover this area, by showing the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and the evacuation by the explosions of Fukushima Daichi Power Plant in 2011 as well as the ongoing projects and positive movements and hopes to this area for the restoration and recreation. Feel the atmosphere and have first hand experience in this triple disaster area with your own eyes!
2. Emmyoin Temple
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
3. Soma Nomaoi
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4.5 based on 19 reviews
This horseback event goes back over 1,000 years and has been designated an important intangible folk culture asset. Three "units" are formed from the regions respectively associated with each of the Sanmyoken shrines (Somanaka Mura Shrine, Soma Ota Shrine, and Soma Odaka Shrine). Then, on the first day, the night festival sees a traditional parade from the horseriders and a race. On the second day, a 3km retinue parades around, and there are armored battles on horseback. In the main festival event, the pennants thrust into the sky loom large as each team tries to capture the others' flags. For the third day, horseriders lead bare horses into a bamboo enclosure in the shrine grounds, and a small jockey dressed in white performs a feat of capturing running horses with his bare hands. The horses are considered a "gift" to the shrine, and these various events are believed to be the origin of votive pictures donated at shrines, as those plaques originally bore images of horses.
4. Meijokan
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4.0 based on 5 reviews
5. Minamisoma City Museum
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4.0 based on 9 reviews
It's City Museum located in Soma area, Fukushima prefecture. Nature, History, Anthropology and Folklore... but the major subject is "Soma-Nomaoi". (Very traditional event with horse!)
6. Michi no Eki Minamisoma
7. Sedette Kashima
8. Minamisoma Kashima Service Area Inbound and Outbound
9. Touhoku Access
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3.0 based on 1 reviews
10. Soma Odaka Shrine
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