Goshogawara
Tachineputa Museum
Tachineputa floats over twenty metres tall are displayed here, and head out from here during the festival. One form of the wider neputa culture.
Museums in Aomori22 entries
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Inakadate
Inakadate Village Archaeological Center
A village where Yayoi-period paddy fields, the Tareyanagi Site, were excavated. An exhibition facility that shows how old rice growing is here.
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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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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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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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Korekawa Jomon Museum
Holds the National Treasure clay figure with its hands pressed together, and lacquer work showing how far Jomon craft had gone.
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Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
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Terayama Shuji Memorial Museum
For the theatre and film provocateur Shuji Terayama; documents emerge from giant desks and drawers, so the museum is itself a staging.
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Kamegaoka Site
Where the goggle-eyed clay figure was found; the domain prized pots turned up here as early as the 1600s.
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Tsugaru Jomon Museum Calco
Finds from the Kamegaoka site shown locally, and evidence of how elaborate late Jomon vessels had become.
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Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum
Four thousand kokeshi from across Japan; only by lining them up does it become clear how differently each lineage draws a face.
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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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Misawa History Museum
In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.
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Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center, Apple Research Institute
A research institute that breeds apple varieties. It belongs to the lineage that was involved in developing the Fuji apple.
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Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center, Vegetable Research Institute
A public testing and research institute of the prefecture. It studies the varieties and cultivation of garlic, Chinese yam and other vegetables that are mainstays of Aomori.
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Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center, Forestry Research Institute
It studies forests and timber. It deals with the use of Aomori hiba.
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Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center, Inland Water Fisheries Research Institute
It studies inland-water aquaculture. It deals with shijimi clams and wakasagi smelt.
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Aomori Prefectural Quantum Science Center
A prefectural facility for research on quantum science and radiation. Located in Rokkasho Village, it is responsible for nuclear-related research and human resource development.