Yamagata Prefecture is situated in the northeast of Japan's island of Honshu.
Yamagata is bordered by the Sea of Japan and by Akita, Miyagi, Fukushima, and Niigata prefectures.
Yamagata Prefecture is also known for its local dialect Yamagata-ben, sometimes thought of as backward sounding and the butt of jokes in other parts of Japan.
A veritable hot-spring paradise, Yamagata Prefecture stretches from the Shonai plain on the coast of the Japan Sea in the west to the Zao mountain range in the east; from the mighty Mount Chokai in the north to the Yonezawa basin in the south.
Yamagata’s authentic dish, imoni, is cooked using taro potatoes, beef, konnyaku cakes and green leeks with soy sauce in a giant pot, six meters in diameter and served to approximately 30,000 people.
Yamagata is special as it combines the traditional with innovative new ideas, spa therapies with spiritual thought and steaming hot spring water with a gourmet paradise.
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