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青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Prefectural Museum

青森市東青

The prefecture's general museum, in a 1931 bank; closed since 2021 and awaiting the end of its refurbishment.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art

弘前市津軽

A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.

青森県 · Art & museums

Maekawa Kunio Buildings in Hirosaki

弘前市津軽

Kunio Maekawa, central to Japanese modernism, left eight buildings in his mother's home town - his first and last work within one walk.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Kogin Institute

弘前市津軽

Kogin stitching filled scarce hemp cloth with cotton thread; the workshop still does it by hand, inside Maekawa's very first building.

青森県 · Art & museums

Former Hirosaki City Library

弘前市津軽

A three-storey timber library with octagonal towers at both corners - a provincial master carpenter's reading of Western architecture.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Bank Memorial Hall

弘前市津軽

A former bank, Western outside and finished in Tsugaru lacquer and plaster within - the mixture is the point.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Ascension Church

弘前市津軽

An Anglican church whose brick spire stands out sharply among the town's timber Western buildings.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Catholic Church

弘前市津軽

A timber Gothic church holding a 19th-century altar given to it by a church in Amsterdam.

青森県 · Art & museums

Fujita Memorial Garden

弘前市津軽

A businessman's villa using the drop of a cliff to hold two different gardens, with Mt Iwaki borrowed as the backdrop.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki City Museum

弘前市津軽

A Maekawa building inside the castle park, holding the domain's armour and the lacquerware the domain itself fostered.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Castle

弘前市津軽

The only surviving castle keep in Tohoku - and one that was jacked up and moved bodily so its stone base could be repaired.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tsugaru-han Neputa Village

弘前市津軽

Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hachinohe Art Museum

八戸市南部

A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.

青森県 · Art & museums

Korekawa Jomon Museum

八戸市南部

Holds the National Treasure clay figure with its hands pressed together, and lacquer work showing how far Jomon craft had gone.

青森県 · Art & museums

Kushihiki Hachimangu Treasure Hall

八戸市南部

Two 13th-century suits of armour, both National Treasures; the red-laced one is among the most ornamented to survive anywhere.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hachinohe City Museum

八戸市南部

On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hachinohe Portal Museum Hacchi

八戸市南部

Built as a gateway to the city in a former department store, showing its food stalls and back alleys through people rather than displays.

青森県 · Art & museums

Towada Art Center

十和田市南部

Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.

青森県 · Art & museums

Towada Art Square

十和田市南部

A public square opposite the museum, with no fence and no ticket, where children walk to school between the sculptures.

青森県 · Art & museums

Terayama Shuji Memorial Museum

三沢市南部

For the theatre and film provocateur Shuji Terayama; documents emerge from giant desks and drawers, so the museum is itself a staging.

青森県 · Art & museums

Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art

七戸町南部

A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.

青森県 · Art & museums

Shayokan

五所川原市津軽

The novelist Dazai's birthplace: a landlord's cypress mansion with its own rice store, the shape Meiji wealth took in Tsugaru.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tachineputa Museum

五所川原市津軽

Lantern figures as tall as a seven-storey building, on view all year - and rebuilt from scratch in the same hall each season.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tsugaru Kanayama Ware

五所川原市津軽

Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.