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Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura
An Edo town rebuilt at full scale; the accuracy of the carpentry makes it a place to check period stage design on foot.
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Motomachi Catholic Church
A Gothic church whose altar was a gift from Pope Benedict XV, on a slope where Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic churches stand together.
Matsumae
Matsumae Han Yashiki
Hokkaido's only castle town rebuilt fourteen of its buildings to show the port as it was - the northern limit of Kyoto-derived culture.
Esashi
Former Nakamura Family Residence
A shipping agent's house built into a slope, with the hoist that lifted cargo straight from the water still in place.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
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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Sannai-Maruyama Site
A Jomon settlement occupied for 1,700 years; its clay figures and lacquered combs are the oldest layer of design in Japan.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
AomoriMuseumsHirosaki
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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Hirosaki Castle
The only surviving castle keep in Tohoku - and one that was jacked up and moved bodily so its stone base could be repaired.
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.
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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.
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.
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