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Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Aomori, AomoriA-FACTORY AomoriA food market by the bay about 1 minute on foot from Aomori Station, under six triangular roofs, with a cider works you can watch through glass and a tasting bar upstairs.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACAomori, AomoriAomori Gyosai Center (Furukawa Market)A market a short walk from Aomori Station, known locally as "Furukawa Market", with scallops from Mutsu Bay and seafood landed that morning. Its speciality is "nokke-don", where you top a bowl of rice with whatever you like: buy meal tickets at the information desk, exchange them for rice at shops with a red sign (1 ticket for a regular bowl, 2 for a large), then exchange tickets for sashimi, side dishes or meat at about 30 shops, and eat in the rest area. Bowls cannot be taken away because they contain raw food, but fish shops will pack sashimi to take home.Official check: 28 Sept 2026- Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Aomori, AomoriAomori Museum of ArtA white museum inspired by the neighbouring Sannai-Maruyama dig, home to Yoshitomo Nara's 8.5 m "Aomori-ken" dog and Chagall's huge "Aleko" backdrops.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Kuroishi, AomoriAoni Onsen, the Lamp-lit InnA single inn by the Aoni Gorge lit only by oil lamps at night, with 4 baths all fed straight from the spring; day bathing 10:00-15:00.Official check: 25 Sept 2026- Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Oma, AomoriCape OmaThe northernmost point of Honshu, only 17.5 km across the Tsugaru Strait from Hokkaido, with a monument modelled on a 440 kg tuna caught by an Oma fisherman.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Sotogahama, AomoriCape TappiThe windswept northern tip of the Tsugaru Peninsula, with a lighthouse chosen among Japan's 50 best and a 362-step national highway that no car can drive.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Goshogawara, AomoriDazai Osamu Memorial Museum "Shayokan"The birthplace of the writer Dazai Osamu, a mansion built in 1907 of Aomori hiba cypress, with about 300 items including his cloak and handwritten manuscripts; 7 minutes on foot from Kanagi Station.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: あおもりくま (Aomorikuma) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Aomori, AomoriHakkoda RopewayA 10-minute ride up Mt. Tamoyachi in the Hakkoda range for autumn leaves, alpine wetlands and, in winter, snow monsters (rime-covered trees).Official check: 25 Sept 2026- Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Hachinohe, AomoriHasshoku CenterHachinohe's big food market: about 70 shops along 170 m, and "Shichirin-mura" where you grill what you buy over charcoal.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Hirosaki, AomoriHirosaki Museum of Contemporary ArtA contemporary art museum in a Meiji-Taisho era brick warehouse built as a sake brewery, renovated under the concept of "inheriting memory"; entering the building and the library is free.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Feri88 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 (resized)Hirosaki, AomoriHirosaki Park and Hirosaki CastleA castle park famous for cherry blossoms; the castle keep is one of Japan's original surviving keeps.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: SQZ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (resized)Sai, AomoriHotokegaura CoastPale green rock pinnacles lining 2 km of the Shimokita coast, best seen from the sightseeing boats that run from Sai port from April to October.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Inakadate, AomoriInakadate Rice Paddy ArtThe original rice paddy art, pictures drawn with 7 colours of rice plants; see them from the village office's 4th-floor viewing deck or the Yayoi-no-sato lookout, June to mid-October (300 yen).Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Hirosaki, AomoriIwakiyama ShrineA shrine at the foot of Mt. Iwaki, founded according to its history in 780 on the summit and moved to its present site in 1091; its gate, main hall and other buildings are Important Cultural Properties.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACAomori, AomoriJigoku-numa PondAbout 5 minutes on foot from Sukayu Onsen, this pond formed where hot spring water gathered near an old explosion crater. There are several fumaroles from volcanic activity nearby, venting sulphurous gas and hot water. The pond is so acidic that no fish can live in it, with water at 90 degrees welling up, and you cannot enter it. Steam and the smell of sulphur hang over a bare landscape. The views of Mt. Hakkoda change with the seasons, and in autumn the colourful trees contrast with the greenish pond.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACAomori, AomoriJogakura BridgeA deck arch bridge in Towada-Hachimantai National Park, 360 m long with a 255 m arch span, one of the longest of its kind in Japan. From the bridge you can see the Hakkoda mountains, Aomori city and Mt. Iwaki, with the Jogakura stream far below; in the autumn-leaf season many people come to photograph the red and yellow mountains.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: MaedaAkihiko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Fukaura, AomoriJuniko Lakes and Aoike PondA group of 33 lakes and ponds in the beech forests on the western edge of the Shirakami Mountains, famous for the cobalt-blue Aoike pond; open to walkers from April to November.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: panina.anna / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Hachinohe, AomoriKabushima Island, Black-tailed Gull ColonyA former island, now joined to the shore, where tens of thousands of black-tailed gulls nest from spring to summer — a national Natural Monument you can watch up close, with Kabushima Shrine on the island.Official check: 25 Sept 2026- Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Fukaura, AomoriKoganezaki Furofushi OnsenAn inn on the Sea of Japan with an open-air bath right at the water's edge, its iron-rich water a deep reddish brown; day visitors can use the seaside bath until 16:00.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Soica2001 / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (PD-self) (resized)Towada, AomoriLake TowadaA caldera lake straddling Aomori and Akita, 327 m deep at its deepest point (third deepest in Japan) and the source of the Oirase Stream.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Mutsu, AomoriMt. Osore / Osorezan Bodaiji TempleA volcanic sacred site on the Shimokita Peninsula where Buddhist belief about the afterlife meets sulphur vents, a lake and a white-sand shore; open only from May to October.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Kuroishi, AomoriNakamachi Komise StreetA street of komise, wooden arcades built to keep off snow and rain, surviving from the Edo-era domain days and chosen as one of Japan's 100 best roads; about 10 minutes on foot from Kuroishi Station.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACSotogahama, AomoriNational Route 339 StairwayNational Route 339, which passes Cape Tappi at the northern tip of the Tsugaru Peninsula, includes Japan's only "stairway national road", which cars and motorbikes cannot use. There are several theories about why it became a national road; one is that it was designated with plans to improve it, but the 70 m height difference and dense houses meant the stairs were never rebuilt. From Tappi fishing port below the cape to Tappizaki Lighthouse there are 362 steps, 388.2 m long with a rise of about 70 m. The climb is fairly hard, but there are benches on the way, and the views over the Tsugaru Strait are good.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Aomori, AomoriNebuta Museum WA RASSERight next to Aomori Station: full-size Nebuta floats that actually paraded in the festival, on display all year, with a short drum-and-dance session.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 (resized)Towada, AomoriOirase StreamA 14 km stream flowing out of Lake Towada from Nenokuchi to Yakeyama, with waterfalls and walking paths along the road.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Aomori, AomoriSannai-Maruyama SiteOne of Japan's largest Jomon settlement sites, with reconstructed pit houses and a huge post building; part of the World Heritage "Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan" (2021).Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACFukaura, AomoriSenjojiki Coast (Fukaura)A vast rock shelf where a lord is said to have once spread a thousand tatami mats for a banquet, with strange rocks named Ebisu-iwa and Kabuto-iwa lining the coast. It is a famous sunset spot, chosen as one of the "100 Best Sunsets in Japan", and one of the "55 best swimming beaches", with sea bathing in summer. From January to February a huge "ice curtain" forms on the cliff by Senjojiki Station as water seeping from the rock freezes in the cold wind from the Sea of Japan. The unstaffed station on the Gono Line, served by the "Resort Shirakami" rapid, is just across the road, and some trains stop for about 15 minutes so passengers can walk around.Official check: 28 Sept 2026- Photo: Photo ACKazamaura, AomoriShimofuro OnsenA hot spring village in Kazamaura on the Shimokita Peninsula at the northern tip of Honshu, facing the Tsugaru Strait with Hokkaido across the water, with milky sulphur springs used since the Muromachi period. You can bathe watching the sunset over the sea, or the fishing-boat lights at night, and enjoy fresh seafood from the strait. Three different springs rise within 100 m, which is rare in Japan, all flowing straight from the source; "Shimofuro Onsen Kaikyo no Yu" has two types of water, "Oyu" and "Shinyu". The "phantom Oma railway", abandoned under construction in 1943, is now a walking path over an arch bridge with a foot bath (closed in winter).Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Aomori, AomoriSukayu Onsen, day bathingA mountain onsen at about 900 m in Hakkoda, famous for the "Hiba Sennin-buro", a 160-tatami mixed bath built entirely of hiba wood.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Goshogawara, AomoriTachineputa MuseumA Tachineputa festival float as tall as the 4-storey atrium, viewed from walkways that circle it at different heights (the floats in the Goshogawara festival are about 23 m tall).Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: D-Chillz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Tsugaru, AomoriTakayama Inari ShrineAn Inari shrine in Aomori with countless vermilion torii gates, each about 2 m high, lined up in a row; cherry blossoms in spring, fresh green in summer and white snow in winter set off the torii, and the high ground beyond them looks over the whole scene. Many stone foxes also stand in the grounds. It is said to date from the Kamakura to Muromachi periods.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACHachinohe, AomoriTanesashi CoastA national Place of Scenic Beauty inside Sanriku Fukko National Park, where over 650 kinds of plants grow. Walking the seaside path you see flowers, natural lawns, strange rocks, 100-year-old pines and black-tailed gulls. The long coast has four areas: Kabushima in the north, where many gulls come to breed from March to August each year; the Ashigezaki Observatory and Osuka Coast area, with Samekado Lighthouse, flowers on the Nakasuka rocks from mid-June to mid-July, and the "singing sand" of Osuka beach; the Tanesashi natural lawn area, where grass runs right down to the waves; and Okuki, with a thatched fishermen's hut and Itsukushima Shrine. The one-coin "Umineko" bus runs along the coast.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: re-kuma / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 (resized)Towada, AomoriTowada Art CenterA contemporary art museum whose works, including pieces by Yayoi Kusama and Ron Mueck, spill out into the street.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Hirosaki, AomoriTsugaruhan Neputa VillageNext to Hirosaki Park: a full-size Neputa festival float, live Tsugaru shamisen without microphones, craft workshops and Tsugaru home cooking.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACTsuruta, AomoriTsuru-no-Mai BridgeA 300 m triple-arched bridge made of Aomori hiba over Tsugaru Fujimi Lake, said to be the longest of its kind in Japan, with Mt. Iwaki reflected in the water.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Towada, AomoriTsuta-numa PondA pond in the beech forest 10 minutes on foot from Tsuta Onsen, on a 2.9 km loop past six ponds; in the autumn leaf season, early-morning entry to the viewing deck needs a reservation.Official check: 25 Sept 2026
Photo: Photo ACAomori, AomoriUto ShrineSaid to be the birthplace of Aomori City. When the area was called Uto village, its ruler Uto Chunagon Yasukata is said to have founded it, enshrining the three Munakata goddesses. It was rebuilt in 807 by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro and became the chief shrine of Aomori. In the grounds is a pond left from what was once a large marsh, and the spring water "Ryujinsui" behind the worship hall. It is linked to the woodblock artist Shiko Munakata, whose works it holds, and has many historic monuments, including a stone marking the end of the Oshu Kaido road and a haiku stone of Matsuo Basho.Official check: 28 Sept 2026
Photo: Amazing AOMORI (Aomori Prefecture)Mutsu, AomoriYagen GorgeA clear mountain stream on the Tohoku Nature Trail with a 6 km loop path through hiba and beech forest, near the Yagen and Okuyagen hot springs.Official check: 25 Sept 2026- No photo yetHachinohe, AomoriMutsu-Minato Station Morning MarketHachinohe's kitchen, a morning market that starts at 3 a.m. in front of Mutsu-Minato Station, Monday to Saturday; you can eat what you buy inside the city fish market.Official check: 25 Sept 2026