Each year, a pair of the Aomori Prefecture town's fields are used to create amazing rice paddy art (or "tambo art," as it's called in Japanese).

With summer here, this year’s designs have reached their best viewing season, and the project’s organizers and visitors have been sharing photos online, enticing visitors to make the tip up to the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main island of Honshu.

This year, the project tips its hat to two beloved stories from the 1950s. In Field #2, Atom/Astro Boy, the iconic robot hero created by “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka, strikes his signature pose as part of a salute to the extended pantheon of Tezuka characters.