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  • Tsugaruhan Neputa Mura
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    4.0
    218 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Kamenokoumachi 61
    This is an experience-based tourist facility in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, themed on local culture including the Hirosaki Neputa festival and the Tsugaru region. The permanent exhibition features displays on Hirosaki Neputa and accompanying musical demonstrations. One can learn about local craftwork and have a production experience, and in the Tsugaru shamisen corner one can not only listen to a live performance but also try playing the shamisen under the guidance of a professional. There is also a free to enter shopping area offering locally-produced vegetables, apples and handicrafts.

    We visited as part of a visit to Hirosaki Castle (see my other review). Unfortunately the English presentation we were supposed to have, for some reason didnt happen. The explanations on the...

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  • Hirosaki Castle Tower
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    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Shimoshiroganechou 1
    Hirosaki castle was completed in 1611. In 1627 the castle was struck by lightning and burnt from the fifth level of the keep to the ground. The castle stood without a tower for the following 200 years, but in 1810, the ninth lord of the Tsugaru Clan Yasuchika rebuilt a three-layered keep in the southwest corner of the grounds. It is called “Gosankai Yagura” and is the castle you can see today. It is now used as historical center exhibiting historical materials of the feudal era.
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  • Aomori Bank Memorial Hall (Former main branch of the 59th National Bank)
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    4.0
    138 Reviews
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    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Motonagamachi 26
    Located southeast of Hirosaki Castle, the Aomori Bank Memorial Hall is a designated National Important Cultural Property which was originally built in 1904 as the 59th National Bank. A Renaissance-esque Western-style building, with decorative tower at the top, called the “White Palace,” also serves as an observatory. The interior is decorated with old-fashioned gold patterned Japanese leather paper, very few examples of which survive today in Japan, and the windows incorporate features from Japanese earthen warehouse architecture as both an anti-burglary and fireproofing measure. The hall still retains vestiges of the mixture of Japanese and Western styles with which it was designed in the Meiji period.

    The building was formerly a bank and now used as a memorial museum. The architecture is European in style. Quite elegant. Displays focus on the development of Japanese coins/money from the samurai...

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  • Catholic Hirosaki Church
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    4.0
    66 Reviews
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    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Hyakkokumachikouji 20
    Located around five minutes’ walk to the east of Hirosaki Park, Catholic Hirosaki Church was built in 1910. It was constructed in the Romanesque style, with a spire, and with prominent pillars at the left and right corners of the front face. The oak-wood altar that faces the door at the far end of the interior was a gift from the Church of St. Thomas in Amsterdam; the altar was made in 1866, and won an award for its design at an exhibition held in Antwerp, Belgium.

    ミサのない時は、いつでも教会内に入り、見学やお祈りが出来ます。 弘前公園の近くにあるので、行きやすいですし、外見を見るだけでも、行く価値はあります。

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  • Hirosaki Church, United Church of Christ in Japan
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    4.0
    65 Reviews
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    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Mototeramachi 48
    A church built by the Hirosaki Methodist Church in 1906. Located close to Hirosaki Castle Botanical Garden, the wooden building’s gothic style architecture with two towers is an extremely rare example constructed during the Meiji period. A variety of traditional crafts were used in the decorate of the church as well. The pulpit and communion table are painted Tsugaru-nuri lacquer, and the donation baskets are traditional woven vine work. Visitors are permitted, but not when staff are not present or during church events.

    I had seen the 1/10th scale building and bumped into it in the middle of my walk-about. I did not enter for it isnt my faith and i was heading somewhere else. It is is large enough to see.

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  • Hirosaki City Museum
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    3.5
    30 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Shimoshiroganechou 1-6 In Hirosaki Park
    A museum located in a corner of the outermost region of the grounds of Hirosaki Castle. The solemn museum building was designed by architect Kunio Maekawa. The museum displays historical materials relating to Hirosaki Domain as well as arts and crafts. The museum's popular mascot, Inocchi, was modeled after an earthen figurine of a wild boar in the Museum's collection dating back to the Jomon period.

    戦国大名津軽家の歴史を中心に貴重な資料を拝見させていただきました。今では青森市が県の中心でしたが、当時は弘前が中心ということが分かりました。

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  • Iwakiyama-jinja Shrine
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    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Hyakuzawa Terasawa
    With a history of approximately 1,200 years since it was built and believed to enshrine the guardian deity of agricultural and fishing industries, Iwakiyama-jinja Shrine is also called by its other names of “O-Iwaki-sama” and “O-yama.” The long path leading from the torii gate to the honden (main shrine) is flanked on either side by sugi (Japanese cryptomeria trees). The premises feature a honden, haiden (hall of worship), okumon (inner gate), and romon (two-storied gate) all arranged in a line, and these beautiful structures have been designated as Important Cultural Properties.
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  • Hirosaki Municipal Local Museum of Literature
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Shimoshiroganecho 2-1
    This facility introduces writers with deep connections to Hirosaki. There is a permanent exhibition of the works of nine literary persons from Tsugaru, such as Katsunan Kuga, Kouroku Sato, Zenzo Kasai and Osamu Dazai. In addition, there are special exhibitions which are figured out to deepen our understanding of the local literature. In addition, each literary person's literature monument is guided, and they are useful for visiting the places of connection and memory.

    多くの文学者を輩出した津軽です。お恥ずかしいのですが文学の世界には全く疎い私なので評価し難いです。弘前城南側の多くの文化施設が集合しているエリアに有ります。

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  • Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
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    4.5
    5 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Yoshinocho 2-1

    弘南鉄道中央弘前駅の近くにある美術館です。かつての酒造会社の倉庫を再利用した、レンガ造りの外観が目を引きます。

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  • Daienji Temple
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
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    Aomori Minamitsugaru-gun Owanimachi Kuradate Muraoka 12
    "This Buddhist temple has garnered worshipers due to it being known as ""Owani no Dainichi"" in Tsugaru. During the Nara period (710-794), with the construction of Emperor Shomu's provincial temple, Dainichi Nyorai was enshrined at Daiankoku Temple. In 1191, it was transferred to Kohaku Temple, and during the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism in 1871, it was moved from Hirosaki City to Daienji Temple. The ""Amitabha statue"" called ""Dainichi"" as the object of worship has been designated an important cultural property. It is thought that a Buddhist sculptor from the capital who visited Hiraizumi used Hiba sypress and sculpted it in Owani."

    大鰐温泉の温泉街にある高野山真言宗のブッダ・テンプルです。本尊は大日如来で、国指定重要文化財（登録は木造阿弥陀如来坐像として）になっています。津軽地方固有の一代様信仰では、未年と申年の守り本尊になっています。御朱印あります。

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  • Tsugaru Kokeshi Doll Museum
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
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    Aomori Pref. Kuroishishi Fukuro Tomiyama 72-1
    Tsugaru Kokeshi Doll Museum, opened in 1988, displays a collection of 5,000 traditional Kokeshi dolls accumulated over a period of 20 years, a “Kokeshi Art Collection” and pure gold kokeshi wooden doll. The museum also holds events and has a hands-on corner, and with a reservation visitors can also experience painting a doll. The Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum is attracting attention not only as a kokeshi memorial hall but also as a place to hand down the history of the activities of the local residents. It is approximately ten minutes by car from Kuroishi Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway.

    黒石駅からバスで行きました。 本数が少ないのであらかじめ調べておきましょう。(帰りの分もです) 紅葉の名所、中野もみじ山にある神社です。 ２階は有料で貴重なこけしを見学できます。 １階は販売中心です。大きなこけしも展示っsれており、こけし好きにはたまらない施設です。

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  • Shirakami Sanchi Visitor Center
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    Aomori Pref. Nakatsugarugunnishimeyamura Tashiro Kanda 61-1
    This visitor center is at the entrance to the World Heritage Site “Shirakami Sanchi” mountain range and offers information about beeches and other aspects of the ecosystem. The video experience hall provides awe-inspiring footage of the mountain range in various seasons that will make you feel like you’re there. The exhibition hall explores the beeches’ lifespans, habitat, the ecology of the mountain range, people’s lifestyles, and more. There’s also information on trekking courses and other activities.
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  • Seiganji Temple
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Aramachi 247
    It is said that the town was established in 1596, when the first feudal lord of Hirosaki, Tsugaru Tamenobu, held a funeral for his mother and invited Yutei Shonin to open a temple. It is a fine and rare representation of Edo's mid-era Zen Buddhism Sanmon architecture and was designated national important cultural property in 1938. Inside the temple, there are many gravestones of late feudal lords of Tsugaru such as Numata Sukemitsu.

    弘前城の観光後に訪問しました。私は全国数々の寺社を観て廻りましたが過去に見た事のない形をした三門でした。建築年代は不詳で江戸中期と推測され、京都誓願寺のものを模して建てられそうです。懸魚を鶴と亀の形に作り、極めて珍しい様式で「鶴亀門」と呼ばれています。山門の破風は、鶴亀門として全国に名高く、国の重要文化財に指定されています...

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  • Takahashi-ke Jutaku
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Pref. Kuroishishi Nakamachi 38 Komi street
    This is the house of the Takahashi Family who were the official rice merchants of the Kuroishi Clan in the Edo feudal period. It is a historical building boasting more than 200 years of history since it was built between 1751 and 1763 and is designated as an Important Cultural Property. There is a coffee shop on site, and coffee and tea using water drawn from a well, as well as handmade sweets (anmitsu) are popular.

    ２月末の、吹雪が舞う平日。ひとりで弘前から弘南鉄道で黒石に行ってみました。 まず、高橋家住宅で温かいコーヒーでも、と思って行きましたら、冬は「冬眠中」だとか......。残念です。 古い家屋や町並みに、とても興味があるので楽しみにしていたのですが。次回は、暖かい季節に訪れて、雪辱を果たします＾＾

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  • Saisho-in Temple Five-Storied Pagoda
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Doyamachi 63
    "A three-minute walk from the ""Hirosakikoko-mae"" Konan Bus stop. The Saisho-in Temple significantly influenced the shrines and temples of Tsugaru; established in 1667, the temple possesses numerous National Important Cultural Properties. The interior of the pagoda is richly decorated with gold and silver leaf as well as ultramarine, and enshrines a statue of Vairocana, the temple's principal object of worship; and, to its sides, statues of an infant Prince Shotoku and the ten rulers of the afterlife. One of the highlights of the temple grounds are its beautiful scenery created by the contrast of seasonal plants such as weeping cherry tree blossoms and fresh verdure in spring. Built to memorialize all those who fell in the battles to unify Tsugaru, the temple's five-storied pagoda and other structures exude an atmosphere of rich history."
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  • Takateru Shrine
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi
    This shrine began as the mausoleum enshrining the fourth clan lord Nobumasa. It has a unique shrine structure based on Yoshikawa Shinto, which has rarely been seen elsewhere in Japan, and is highly valued as an indication of the development of early modern shrine architecture. Heiden (hall of offerings), Zuijin-Mon (shrine gate), the public grave of Nobumasa Tsugaru, Byosho-Haiden (hall of worship in mausoleum), and Byosho-Mon (gate in mausoleum) are designated as important cultural properties.
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  • Hirosaki Anglican Ascension Church
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Yamamichicho 7
    This church was built in 1921 by an American, J. M. Gardiner. It was made mostly of bricks piled up in the British style and hiba timber produced in Aomori Prefecture, and there is a bell tower at the very top. In addition, the organ is still famous even after 120 years have passed. It is designated as an important cultural property of the prefecture as a precious Western-style building.
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  • Former Iwata Family Residence
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Wakadocho 31
    This is a building that is thought to have been built between the end of the Kansei period (1789-1801) and the Bunka period (around 1800). The primary structure component and roofs remain almost in the same condition as when it was built. Now it is restored to what it was at the time of the first modification based on a survey. It is a precious relic for knowing the life at that time in a residence of a middle-class samurai near the Hirosaki castle.
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  • Former Umeda Family Residence
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Wakadocho 80
    This is one of the samurai residences in the Nakamachi area (nationally-designated important traditional architecture preservation district) that is open to the public. This is a section of town districts for samurai in order to protect pursuers on the north side of Hirosaki Castle, and it reminds us of the simple yet powerful life of a middle-class samurai in the late Edo period.
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  • Apple Museum
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    Aomori Kuroishi-shi
    This museum operates out of a structure built in 1931 which was modeled after the architecture of the East Malling Research Station in England. The facility serves as a space for culture, sightseeing, and learning. Visitors can learn about the results of local fruit cultivation experiments as well as the history of apples in Aomori. In addition to exhibits, there's an apple activity zone where visitors can take a quiz on a PC, and a theater where you can observe what involved in the cultivation of apples over a one year period.
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Centuries-old stories of samurai at Kakunodate and the remains of millennia-old archaeological sites including the likes of Isedotai invite history buffs to delve into Aomori’s fascinating history. As the most northern prefecture on the Japanese mainland, Aomori enjoys a cooler climate, which makes it a welcome escape from the southern cities for combining castles, art galleries, and summer festivals with the great outdoors.

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