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青森県 · Regional selections

Oishi Shin Pyramid

南部

Megaliths in the mountains of Shingo. Large stones stand at the summit and around it, long held to be sacred ground.

青森県 · Regional selections

Japan's Tallest Statue of Liberty

南部

A statue in Icho Park, Oirase, long familiar as a symbol of the town.

青森県 · Regional selections

Mutsu Minato Ekimae Asaichi

南部

A morning market in front of Hachinohe's Mutsu-Minato Station, running since the postwar years. Buy fish and build your own rice bowl.

青森県 · Regional selections

Odaiba Auto Village

津軽

Cottages and a campsite in Tsugaru. Close to the sea, it serves as a summer base.

青森県 · Regional selections

Shiriyazaki Lighthouse

下北

A brick lighthouse first lit in 1876 — the tallest brick lighthouse in Japan.

青森県 · Regional selections

Tappizaki Seaside Park

津軽

Bungalows and a campsite at Cape Tappi, on high ground overlooking the Tsugaru Strait.

青森県 · Regional selections

Hachinohe Yatai Mura Miraku Yokocho

南部

One of Hachinohe's eight alley districts. Small stalls stand in a row, and you drink your way from one to the next.

青森県 · Regional selections

Nakamachi Komise-dori

津軽

Wooden arcades that Kuroishi's merchant houses extend over the street, a snow-country passage kept since the Edo period.

青森県 · Regional selections

Auga Shinsen Ichiba

津軽

A market inside a building by Aomori Station, used by local people for everyday shopping.

青森県 · Regional selections

弘前れんが倉庫美術館

津軽

A museum converted from a Meiji and Taisho sake factory, keeping the brick walls and steel frame as they were.

青森県 · Regional selections

善知鳥神社

津軽

A shrine held to be the birthplace of Aomori City, carrying the name of Utou village, from which the city takes its own.

青森県 · Regional selections

Kuroishi Tsuyu Yakisoba

津軽

A noodle dish born in Kuroishi in the late 1950s: fried noodles eaten with a Japanese-style broth poured over.

青森県 · Regional selections

Hakkoda-san Secchu Kogun Sounan Shiryokan

津軽

A museum on the 1902 Hakkoda march disaster. Of 210 soldiers, 11 came back alive.

青森県 · Regional selections

Nakano Momiji-yama

津軽

Kuroishi's best-known place for autumn colour, with maples over a century old standing along a stream.

青森県 · Regional selections

Roadside Station Fukaura "Kasose Ikayaki-mura"

津軽

A roadside station on the coast at Fukaura, known for squid split and hung to dry, and for squid grilled fresh.

青森県 · Regional selections

Asamushi Onsen Yusa Asamushi Roadside Station

津軽

A roadside station near Asamushi Onsen Station, with a top-floor bath looking out over Mutsu Bay.

青森県 · Regional selections

国際芸術センター青森

津軽

An arts centre at the foot of Hakkoda, with residency studios and exhibition halls set among the trees.

青森県 · Regional selections

Hirota Shrine

津軽

A shrine said to date from 996, its grounds planted with the flowers of Tsugaru.

青森県 · Regional selections

Oiiwa

津軽

A huge rock jutting into the sea at Fukaura. A path and a cave lead up to the top of it.

青森県 · Regional selections

盛美園

津軽

An Oishi-Bugaku-style garden in Hirakawa, with a building that stacks a Western upper floor on a Japanese lower one facing the garden.

青森県 · Regional selections

Yajiro Ana

南部

A cave along a river in Sannohe, where mossy rock and the sound of water go on together.

青森県 · Regional selections

三沢市寺山修司記念館

南部

A museum of the writer Shuji Terayama's belongings and papers, known for exhibits you open desk drawers to see.

青森県 · Regional selections

Sky Plaza Misawa

南部

A mixed-use building in Misawa. The feel of a town beside a US air base shows inside as well.

青森県 · Regional selections

Aomori Ale (Be Easy Brewing / Galley's Hideout)

津軽

A taproom attached to a Hirosaki brewery, serving beer at the place it is made.