Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari is mix between a first person adventure game and a hanafuda game that tells the story of a young photographer that travels around the northeast part of Japan playing hanafuda games and taking pictures of the places that he visit.
During his journeys he will meet different girls and to take pictures of them he will have to defeat them in the hanafuda games.
Hanafuda are playing cards of Japanese origin (karuta cards), used to play a number of games. The name literally translates as 'flower cards'.