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青森県 · Art & museums

Kamegaoka Site

つがる市津軽

Where the goggle-eyed clay figure was found; the domain prized pots turned up here as early as the 1600s.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tsugaru Jomon Museum Calco

つがる市津軽

Finds from the Kamegaoka site shown locally, and evidence of how elaborate late Jomon vessels had become.

青森県 · Art & museums

Nakamachi Komise Street

黒石市津軽

Wooden arcades built out over the street against snow, surviving as they were in the Edo period.

青森県 · Art & museums

Takahashi Family Residence

黒石市津軽

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

青森県 · Art & museums

Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum

黒石市津軽

Four thousand kokeshi from across Japan; only by lining them up does it become clear how differently each lineage draws a face.

青森県 · Art & museums

Seibien

平川市津軽

A building Japanese below and Western above, beside a garden made in a school of design unique to Tsugaru.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirakawa Neputa Festival

平川市津軽

A twelve-metre fan-shaped lantern paraded through the town - a festival in which the painters of the warrior scenes are the principals.

青森県 · Art & museums

Engakuji Treasure Hall

深浦町津軽

Ship votive paintings hung beside framed topknots cut off in thanks for surviving the sea - folk art produced by maritime faith.

青森県 · Art & museums

Inakadate Rice Paddy Art

田舎館村津軽

Rice of different colours planted as seedlings to draw a picture in one paddy; the practice began in this village and spread nationwide.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hakkoda-maru Memorial Ship

青森市東青

A ferry from the eighty-year Aomori-Hakodate route, kept at its berth as a museum you can enter down to the engine room.

青森県 · Art & museums

ASPAM

青森市東青

A triangular tower on the harbour front, shaped as the letter A, and visible as a marker from anywhere in the city.

青森県 · Art & museums

Yu-sa Asamushi

青森市東青

A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tanesashi Coast

八戸市南部

The coast where Kaii Higashiyama found the subject of his best-known painting - rock, turf and sea in bands.

青森県 · Art & museums

Nanbu Hishizashi

八戸市南部

The counterpart to Tsugaru kogin: counted on even threads, so its diamonds are built on a different geometry.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Gakuin Missionary Residence

弘前市津軽

A timber Western house built by local carpenters for an American woman missionary; an Important Cultural Property.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tsugaru Lacquerware

弘前市津軽

Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.

青森県 · Art & museums

Hirosaki Neputa Festival

弘前市津軽

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.

青森県 · Art & museums

Aomori Nebuta Festival

青森市東青

Three-dimensional warrior figures of wire and paper, made from nothing each year by professional makers, and used once.

青森県 · Art & museums

Tachineputa Workshop

五所川原市津軽

Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.

青森県 · Art & museums

Osanai Family Residence

弘前市津軽

A relocated Tsugaru farmhouse, its balance of boarded floor and earthen floor set by the length of the winter.

青森県 · Art & museums

Namioka Castle Ruins

青森市東青

A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.

青森県 · Art & museums

Komakino Site

青森市東青

A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.

青森県 · Art & museums

Sukayu

青森市東青

A vast timber bathhouse built without a single pillar, and the first hot spring designated a national health resort.

青森県 · Art & museums

Misawa History Museum

三沢市南部

In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.