Kuroishi
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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AomoriMuseumsKuroishi
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.
AomoriArchitectureHirakawa
Hirakawa Neputa Festival
An August festival in Hirakawa. Among Tsugaru's Neputa, this one fields the large fan-shaped floats.
AomoriArt & CraftsFukaura
Engakuji Treasure Hall
Ship votive paintings hung beside framed topknots cut off in thanks for surviving the sea - folk art produced by maritime faith.
AomoriContemporary ArtInakadate
Inakadate Rice Paddy Art
Rice of different colours planted as seedlings to draw a picture in one paddy; the practice began in this village and spread nationwide.
AomoriArchitectureAomori
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.
AomoriArchitectureAomori
Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Tanesashi Coast
The coast where Kaii Higashiyama found the subject of his best-known painting - rock, turf and sea in bands.
Hachinohe
Nanbu Hishizashi
The counterpart to Tsugaru kogin: counted on even threads, so its diamonds are built on a different geometry.
AomoriArchitectureHirosaki
Hirosaki Gakuin Missionary Residence
A timber Western house built by local carpenters for an American woman missionary; an Important Cultural Property.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru Lacquerware
Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
AomoriArt & CraftsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
Hirosaki
Osanai Family Residence
A relocated Tsugaru farmhouse, its balance of boarded floor and earthen floor set by the length of the winter.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Namioka Castle Ruins
A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Komakino Site
A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.
AomoriArchitectureMisawa
Misawa History Museum
In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.
AomoriFood & MarketsAomori
Kanesa Bonju Plant No. 1
A miso factory in Aomori City. It uses soybeans and rice from the prefecture and carries out the long fermentation of a cold region.
Aomori
Hokuyo Glass and Tsugaru Vidro
A workshop that blows Tsugaru Vidro glass. Techniques originally used to make glass floats for fishing moved into craft.
Aomori
BUNACO Nishimeya Factory
Thin beech boards are rolled up to make vessels. It uses beech from Aomori Prefecture and has its factory in Nishimeya.
Aomori
Takasago Foods
A noodle company in Hirakawa. It makes dried noodles and fresh noodles, and accepts factory tours.