AomoriShrines & TemplesHirosaki
Iwakiyama Jinja
Mount Iwaki itself is the deity, with an inner shrine at the summit. The annual Oyama-sankei pilgrimage is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
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Iwakiyama Okumiya
At the 1,625-metre summit. Pilgrims climb here on the first day of the eighth lunar month for Oyama-sankei.
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Hirosaki Hachimangu
The tutelary shrine of the Hirosaki domain. The main hall and the karamon gate are Important Cultural Properties.
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Hirosaki Toshogu
A Toshogu built by the Tsugaru domain. The main hall is an Important Cultural Property.
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Saishoin Gojunoto
Called the northernmost five-storey pagoda in Japan, and the most beautiful.
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Iwakiyama Jinja Romon
An Important Cultural Property. It was originally built as the gate of a temple.
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Hirosaki-jo
The only Edo-period castle keep still standing in northern Japan. Famous for its 2,600 cherry trees.
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Fujita Garden
A garden on two levels: a height that borrows Mount Iwaki as scenery, and low ground fed by springs.
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Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.
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Maekawa Kunio Buildings in Hirosaki
Kunio Maekawa, central to Japanese modernism, left eight buildings in his mother's home town - his first and last work within one walk.
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Hirosaki Kogin Institute
Kogin stitching filled scarce hemp cloth with cotton thread; the workshop still does it by hand, inside Maekawa's very first building.
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Former Hirosaki City Library
A three-storey timber library with octagonal towers at both corners - a provincial master carpenter's reading of Western architecture.
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Aomori Bank Memorial Hall
A former bank, Western outside and finished in Tsugaru lacquer and plaster within - the mixture is the point.
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Hirosaki Ascension Church
An Anglican church whose brick spire stands out sharply among the town's timber Western buildings.
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Hirosaki Catholic Church
A timber Gothic church holding a 19th-century altar given to it by a church in Amsterdam.
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Fujita Memorial Garden
A businessman's villa using the drop of a cliff to hold two different gardens, with Mt Iwaki borrowed as the backdrop.
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Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
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Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
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Hirosaki Gakuin Missionary Residence
A timber Western house built by local carpenters for an American woman missionary; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tsugaru Lacquerware
Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.
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Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.