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Hotels in Yamagata |
Few tourists make it to
YAMAGATA
, a large, workaday city ringed by high mountains, and those that do are usually just passing through. Apart from a couple of engaging museums, Yamagata's prime attraction is as a base for the atmospheric temples of
Yamadera
and
Zao Onsen
. Zao-san provides excellent summer hiking, while winter transforms these mountains into one of Japan's top three ski resorts, known for its deep snow and beguiling "snow monsters" - fir trees engulfed in wind-sculpted ice and snow.
The City
Central Yamagata occupies a grid of streets lying northeast of the train station. Its southern boundary is Ekimae-dori, a broad avenue leading straight from the station as far as the
Hotel Castle
, from where the main shopping street,...
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