Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata

The celebrated five-story pagoda, the oldest in the Tōhoku region, at Mount Haguro. (© Pixta)

Yamagata is famed for its cherries. (© Pixta)

Kitekero-kun, the Yamagata prefectural mascot, has a name that means “Please come on up!” in the local dialect of Japanese. Kitekero-kun has a face shaped like Yamagata and wears a hat decorated with the prefecture’s famed cherries. (© Yamagata Prefecture)