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Utou Jinja
Held to be the birthplace of the city of Aomori. This area was once called Utou village.
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Hakkoda Jinja
A small shrine deep in the Hakkoda mountains, spoken of alongside the memory of the 1902 march through the snow.
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Hirota Jinja (Aomori)
It claims to be the only shrine in Japan devoted to warding off illness and misfortune.
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Aomori Nebuta
Figure lanterns five metres high move through the streets to shouts of "rassera".
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Sannai Maruyama
A settlement that lasted 1,700 years. The large six-pillared building has been reconstructed.
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Aomori Museum of Art
Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.
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Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.
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Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art
For the printmaker Shiko Munakata, who called his medium 'board painting'; the museum closed in 2024 and its works passed to the prefectural museum.
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Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse
Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.
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Aomori Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.
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Hakkoda-maru Memorial Ship
A ferry from the eighty-year Aomori-Hakodate route, kept at its berth as a museum you can enter down to the engine room.
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Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
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Namioka Castle Ruins
A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.
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Komakino Site
A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.
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