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Saruka Jinja
It drew the faith of the farmers of Tsugaru. A broad lotus pond spreads before it.
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AomoriShrines & TemplesFukaura
Enkakuji (Fukaura)
Sailors of the kitamaebune cut off their topknots and dedicated them here. Votive ship paintings line the hall.
Misawa
Yachigashira
A place that holds the memory of Hirosawa Yasuto's Western-style ranch and of the Tonami clan settlers.
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.
Hirosaki
Iwakiyama Jinja Romon
An Important Cultural Property. It was originally built as the gate of a temple.
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.
Towada
Oirase Stream
A stream about 14 kilometres long flowing out of Lake Towada. Autumn foliage is the best season.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki-jo
The only Edo-period castle keep still standing in northern Japan. Famous for its 2,600 cherry trees.
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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.
AomoriNature & Scenery
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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.
AomoriFestivalsGoshogawara
Tachineputa
Twenty-three metres tall. It was revived by burying the town's power lines.
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AomoriNature & SceneryTowada
Lake Towada
A double caldera lake. Takamura Kotaro's Maiden Statue stands on the shore.
AomoriFestivalsAround Hirosaki
Tsugaru Shamisen
It grew out of door-to-door street performance. The striking, percussive stroke of the plectrum is its mark.
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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.