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About 45 minutes west of Morioka via the Shinkansen (Bullet Train), Kakunodate is an old samurai town that actually still has some of its samurai district intact. As you will see from the following pictures, many of the characteristics that we saw in the samurai houses (tatami mats, color schemes, etc) were very similar to the ryokans that we stayed at.
Kakunodate
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The entrance (main gate) to Aoyagi Samurai Manor is called Yakui Mon, and sports a roof with magnificent decorations, overwhelming other samurai manor gates in town (in feudal Japan, gates symbolized the social prestige of their owners). The Aoyagi Family built the gate in 1860, after the feudal lord of Kakunodate gave special permission as a reward for their contribution to the domain
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