AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
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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AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
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.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
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.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Former Hirosaki City Library
A three-storey timber library with octagonal towers at both corners - a provincial master carpenter's reading of Western architecture.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Aomori Bank Memorial Hall
A former bank, Western outside and finished in Tsugaru lacquer and plaster within - the mixture is the point.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Ascension Church
An Anglican church whose brick spire stands out sharply among the town's timber Western buildings.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Catholic Church
A timber Gothic church holding a 19th-century altar given to it by a church in Amsterdam.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
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.
AomoriMuseumsHirosaki
Hirosaki City Museum
A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Hachinohe Art Museum
A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Korekawa Jomon Museum
Holds the National Treasure clay figure with its hands pressed together, and lacquer work showing how far Jomon craft had gone.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Kushihiki Hachimangu Treasure Hall
Two 13th-century suits of armour, both National Treasures; the red-laced one is among the most ornamented to survive anywhere.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
AomoriContemporary ArtHachinohe
Hachinohe Portal Museum Hacchi
Built as a gateway to the city in a former department store, showing its food stalls and back alleys through people rather than displays.
AomoriArt & CraftsTowada
Towada Art Center
Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.
AomoriContemporary ArtTowada
Towada Art Square
A public square opposite the museum, with no fence and no ticket, where children walk to school between the sculptures.
AomoriMuseumsMisawa
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.
AomoriArt & CraftsShichinohe
Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.
AomoriMuseumsGoshogawara
Tsugaru Kanayama Ware
Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.
AomoriMuseumsTsugaru
Kamegaoka Site
Where the goggle-eyed clay figure was found; the domain prized pots turned up here as early as the 1600s.
Tsugaru
Tsugaru Jomon Museum Calco
Finds from the Kamegaoka site shown locally, and evidence of how elaborate late Jomon vessels had become.
AomoriArchitectureKuroishi
Nakamachi Komise Street
Wooden arcades built out over the street against snow, surviving as they were in the Edo period.