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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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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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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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Nakamachi Komise Street
Wooden arcades built out over the street against snow, surviving as they were in the Edo period.
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Takahashi Family Residence
A rice merchant's house of 1763, its roof kept low throughout to shed the weight of snow.
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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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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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Osanai Family Residence
A relocated Tsugaru farmhouse, its balance of boarded floor and earthen floor set by the length of the winter.
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