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.
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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.
Kuroishi
Takahashi Family Residence
A rice merchant's house of 1763, its roof kept low throughout to shed the weight of snow.
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.