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Fukushima Travel Guide

Everything for your trip to Fukushima in one place: anime pilgrimage, attractions, cherry blossoms, autumn leaves, winter scenery, onsen. Open any page for access, highlights and typical dates.

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Anime pilgrimage

🎬 Anime pilgrimage

🎬 6 places

Hakuoki Shinkai

Hokkaido・Tohoku・Tokyo & Around・Kansai ・ Goryokaku-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido・Otemachi, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima・Hino-honmachi, Hino, Tokyo

A romance adventure game for a female audience that portrays the Shinsengumi of the late Edo period, adding fictional elements such as demons. Four places linked to the Shinsengumi are selected for the 88 Anime Spots: Hakodate (Hokkaido), Aizuwakamatsu (Fukushima), Hino (Tokyo) and Kyoto.

🎬 13 places

Zatsu Tabi: That's Journey

Tohoku・Tokyo & Around・Chubu & Hokuriku・Kansai・Chugoku & Shikoku ・ Aomori City, Aomori・Morioka City, Iwate・Awashimaura Village, Niigata

A university student who dreams of becoming a manga artist hits a creative wall and sets off on easygoing trips around Japan, choosing each destination by social media poll. The 88 Anime Spots selection includes all 13 prefectures the story visits: Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Tochigi, Tokyo, Niigata, Toyama, Mie, Wakayama, Shimane, Hiroshima and Kagawa.

Attractions

🎡 Attractions

Aquarium

Aquamarine Fukushima

Tohoku ・ Iwaki, Fukushima

An environmental aquarium at Onahama Port in Iwaki. It showcases a wide range of waterside nature and wildlife, from the rivers and sea of Fukushima to the Shiome no Umi, where the Kuroshio and Oyashio currents meet, as well as northern seas and coral reefs. It's open year-round, and a visit typically takes 1.5 to 3 hours.

Experience

Spa Resort Hawaiians

Tohoku ・ Iwaki, Fukushima

A hot spring and pool leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. A single admission ticket gives access to the Water Park's pools and water slides, the Spring Park hot spring area, the open-air bath Edo Jowa Yoichi, and more. Polynesian shows run from midday into the night, so you can enjoy it on a day trip or an overnight stay.

Cherry blossoms

🌸 Cherry blossoms

Famous single tree

Miharu Takizakura

Tohoku ・ Miharu, Fukushima

🌸 Typical peak: Mid Apr – Late Apr

✦ Night sakura
Autumn leaves

🍁 Autumn leaves

Winter scenery

❄️ Winter scenery

Snowy village

Ouchi-juku in Snow

Tohoku ・ Aizu-Wakamatsu & Ouchi-juku

❄ Best season: Early Jan – Late Feb

Onsen

♨️ Onsen

♨ Onsen

Aizu Higashiyama Onsen

Tohoku ・ Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima

♨ Day use Adults: weekdays ¥1,000, weekends and holidays ¥1,100, peak days ¥1,650; elementary school students ¥500–¥700 (as of October 2026)

Private baths
Travel passes

🎫 Travel passes

🚄 JR

JR EAST PASS

Tohoku ・ 5 or 10 consecutive days from the first day of use

From ¥35,000

Weather

☁️ Fukushima weather & what to wear

Monthly temperatures, rain and what to wear are in our weather guide.

Itineraries, intercity routes and travel passes that cover several prefectures are listed under each of them.

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