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青森県 · Shrines & temples

Saruka Jinja

平川市津軽

It drew the faith of the farmers of Tsugaru. A broad lotus pond spreads before it.

青森県 · Shrines & temples

Namioka

青森市東青

The site of Namioka Castle, which carries the medieval history of Tsugaru.

青森県 · Shrines & temples

Enkakuji (Fukaura)

深浦町津軽

Sailors of the kitamaebune cut off their topknots and dedicated them here. Votive ship paintings line the hall.

青森県 · Shrines & temples

Uranaiba

十和田市南部

A slip of paper is thrown into the lake; if it sinks, the wish is said to be granted.

青森県 · Shrines & temples

Kasuganai

五所川原市津軽

It carries the Kannon devotion of the Tsugaru region.

青森県 · Shrines & temples

Yachigashira

三沢市南部

A place that holds the memory of the hardy horses and of the settlers.

青森県 · Tourism

Tachineputa

五所川原市津軽

Tachineputa floats over twenty metres tall parade past. One form of the wider neputa culture.

青森県 · Tourism

Iwakiyama Jinja Romon

弘前市津軽

An Important Cultural Property. It was originally built as the gate of a temple.

青森県 · Tourism

Inakadate Inari

田舎館村津軽

A village where Yayoi-period paddy fields were excavated. The shrine marks how old rice growing is here.

青森県 · Tourism

Oirase

十和田市南部

Small shrines are dotted along the stream, where the water itself is what is revered.

青森県 · Tourism

Hirosaki-jo

弘前市津軽

The only Edo-period castle keep still standing in northern Japan. Famous for its 2,600 cherry trees.

青森県 · Tourism

Aomori Nebuta

青森市東青

Figure lanterns five metres high move through the streets to shouts of "rassera".

青森県 · Tourism

Sannai Maruyama

青森市東青

A settlement that lasted 1,700 years. The large six-pillared building has been reconstructed.

青森県 · Tourism

Shirakami

西目屋村津軽

Untouched primeval beech forest. One of the first two sites in Japan inscribed as World Natural Heritage.

青森県 · Tourism

Fujita Garden

弘前市津軽

A garden on two levels: a height that borrows Mount Iwaki as scenery, and low ground fed by springs.

青森県 · Tourism

Tachineputa

五所川原市津軽

Twenty-three metres tall. It was revived by burying the town's power lines.

青森県 · Tourism

Hakkoda

青森市東青

Snow clings to Maries' fir until the slope becomes a field of white towers.

青森県 · Tourism

Lake Towada

十和田市南部

A double caldera lake. Takamura Kotaro's Maiden Statue stands on the shore.

青森県 · Tourism

Tsugaru Shamisen

弘前市ほか津軽

It grew out of door-to-door street performance. The striking, percussive stroke of the plectrum is its mark.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Museum of Art

青森市東青

Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Contemporary Art Centre

青森市東青

A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.

青森県 · Art & museums

Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art

青森市東青

For the printmaker Shiko Munakata, who called his medium 'board painting'; the museum closed in 2024 and its works passed to the prefectural museum.

青森県 · Art & museums

Sannai-Maruyama Site

青森市東青

A Jomon settlement occupied for 1,700 years; its clay figures and lacquered combs are the oldest layer of design in Japan.

青森県 · Art & museums

Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse

青森市東青

Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.