It is fun to invite many swans and wild birds to Tome City.

Izunuma and Uchinuma were designated as important wetlands at The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Many geese and wild birds as well as swans migrate here for the winter from far away as Siberia.

Local residents and visitors feed them rice or snacks to welcome them. There is an abundance of wildlife in the area including trees and other plants. There is no pollution here. Izunuma and Uchinuma are the paradise for the birds .

The best season to visit the area and see the wild birds are fall and winter.

In fall and winter, Izunuma and Uchinuma are packed with swans, wild birds and tourists.

This is an amusing event. Local men from each area in Yonekawa don straw hats and coats to parade through the streets with small wooden buckets. Their faces are painted with soot from old-fashioned kitchen ranges.

Those people throw water on the houses hoping to protect them from fire.

Residents bring New Year's decorations to burn them at a nearby temple or shrine, and wish for their health, a good crop, and good business. Shrines and temples are visited by many guests from neighborhood cities.

In Hasama, Tsushima Jinja (shrine) is the main place of Dontosai.

• From December 1 to January 31 / Fuyu no Hotaru Dori (streets in downtown area are illuminated) (Toyosato)
• From December 1 to January 2 / Ishinomori Shotaro Furusato Memorial Pageant of Light(Nakada)
  Trees and the hedges are illuminated by strings of lights.
• From mid-December to the beginning of January / Mokumoku Land Light Up (Tsuyama)
  Trees are illuminated by many strings of lights.

• January 14 / Sanuma Dontosai (Hasama)
• January 14 / Kagano Taishido Dontosai & Nabekko Kaburi (Nakada)
• January 14 / Toyosato Dontosai (Toyosato)
• January 14 / Toyoma Dontosai (Toyoma)
• January 14 / Ishikoshi Dontosai & Fireworks Festival (Ishikoshi)
• January 14 / Wakakusa Jinja Dontosai (Towa)
• Mid January / Mochigiri (Yoneyama)

• February 3 / Mamemaki (a bean-throwing ceremony) (Senshoji Temple in Toyoma)
• February 3 / Miyagi Kitakami Renpo Kite Festival (Toyoma)
• February 12 (the first horse day each year) / Yonekawa Mizukaburi

• The first Sunday / Chacha World opens to the public. (Ishikoshi)