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Hachinohe / Shimokita Peninsula

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Osorezan Bodaiji Temple

4.5

110 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Aomori Pref. Mutsushi Tanabu Ugo Toshiyama 3-2

Osorezan, which was founded in 862 by Jikaku Taishi, is one of Japan’s three largest reizan (sacred mountains) which also include Hiezan and Koya-san. It prospered as a place for the Tendai sect of Shugendo (a Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts). Sights to see include the arching bridge over what is supposed to represent the Sanzu no Kawa (which has to be crossed by all dead souls on their way to afterlife and is often compared to the River Styx of ancient Greek mythology), Jigokudani (Hell Valley), and the beautiful Sai no Kawara (Dry Bed of the River of Souls) that makes one think of the Sukhavati (Amitabha’s Pure Land).

Having read a great deal about the history and cultural significance of this wonderful place I was determined to visit here. Hired a car from near our accommodation in Mutsu and very easy drive...
Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Aomori

4.5

176 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Pref. Misawashi Misawa Kitayama 158

This is an aero science hall located in a corner of “Misawa Sky Park” neighboring Misawa airport. It was opened in August 2003 with the theme of “Aviation” and the “Sky.” On the first floor of the building, a YS-11, used as a Japan Air Commuter, is displayed unchanged since its time of active service. In addition, outside the Museum, a replica of Miss Veedol is on display in the Sky Park. Visitors can enjoy seeing, touching and learning about aviation history. The second floor is a science museum with hands-on exhibits, consisting of a corner where experiences and experiments can be done, and the third floor has an observation deck overlooking Misawa airfield.

A beautiful museum with both outdoor and exhibition. My husband and I enjoyed especially Honda Jet, which is amazing. There are a lot of experiences you actually participate in.
Korekawa Jomon Kan, Korekawa Archaeological Institution

4.0

43 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Korekawa Yokoyama 1

A museum adjoining the Korekawa Site, a Jomon period archeological site which was designated a National Historic Site in 1957. The museum collects and displays archeological artifacts excavated in Hachinohe City. The museum uses informational panels and videos to present the city's Jomon period sites and contains exhibits features artifacts primarily from the Korekawa Site as well as a National Treasure-designated Dogu earthenware figure with its hands clasped in prayer. The museum also periodically holds special exhibitions focusing on a variety of themes relating to Japan's ancient Jomon period. The Kore Cafe museum shop and cafe sells goods such as replicas of the aforementioned Dogu figure and also serves light meals.

We left Asamushi Onsen for our next destination, Korekawa Archaeological Institute Museum in Hachinohe City, which was slightly less than a two hours’ drive to the east coast. There were two reasons...
Nejo Castle Site

4.0

13 Reviews

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Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Nejou Negishi 47

The site of a castle which belonged to the Nanbu, a powerful clan which once ruled the northern Ou region in the middle ages. The remnants of the castle's inner citadel, Tozenji-kan hall, earthwork enclosure, and moat can still be seen today. In October 1994, the castle's major historical sites were turned into a historical park and the castle's main building, workshop, barn, and stable were recreated based on archeological surveys of the inner citadel site. A tour provided by a volunteer guide can be arranged with an advance reservation.

Wandering through this area youll feel like your in history, you cn actually dress as a samurai; I decline it just wouldnt look right.
Rokkasho Visitors Center

3.5

16 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Pref. Kamikitagunrokkashomura Obuchi Kamiobuchi 2-42

A visitor’s center for the nuclear fuel cycling center located in almost the exact venter of Rokkasho Village on the Shimokita Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture. The building is modeled after a nuclear fuel cycle ring. The third floor offers a sweeping 360 degree panorama of the Mt. Hakkoda, the Pacific Ocean, and the nuclear fuel cycling facility. Through large models, videos, information panels, and games, visitors can have fun learning about the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The visitor’s center also offers guided tours with easy to understand explanations provided by a center staff member with an advance reservation.

原子燃料サイクルについてのPR施設です。1991年開館ですので、展示内容に陳腐化が見られますが、原燃燃料サイクルの概要について学ぶことができます。入館料は無料、物産コーナーで六ヶ所村特産の長芋の焼酎も購入できました。
Hachinohe City Museum

4.0

23 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Nejou East 35-1

This museum is in the Nejo Castle Ruins, which is designated as a national historic site, along Shirahagi Line in Higashigamae, Nejo, Hachinohe City. There are four display halls, exhibiting specimens of archaeology, history, folklore, and intangible culture, covering Hachinohe's history and folklore from the Jomon Period through the Edo period. They also offer the Jomon Room full of activities and lectures, where you can touch Jomon potsherds and more to learn about history up close.

This is a fine overall history of this region of Japan from pre-history days until Meiji period; it has displays specific to area and how they fit into Japant history.
Kabushima-jinja Shrine

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Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Samemachi Same 56

A Shinto shrine which has been granting worshipper's prosperity in business and maritime safety since ancient times. The shrine is dedicated to the goddess Ichikishima-hime no Mikoto (Benzaiten). The shrine area is known as a breeding ground for black-tailed gulls and each year over 30,000 gulls visit the location.
Mutsu Science Museum

3.5

7 Reviews

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Aomori Mutsu-shi Sekine Kita Sekine 693

This science museum displays the reactor room of the nuclear-fueled vessel, the Mutsu. This public display of a reactor room is a world first. The ship's actual turbine and external propeller/mechanisms to propel the ship with nuclear fuel are also displayed in a way that is easy to understand. Visitors can book a tour around the museum with explanations provided by an instructor up to a week in advance. Machining workshops and observations of science experiments are also organized by the museum.

信じられなかったです。絶対無料と思ったのに、入り口から中を覗いて、￥３００円の価値は無いと確信しやめました。（入り口での判断：深謝）
Chojasan Shinra Shrine

3.5

6 Reviews

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Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Chouja 1-6-10

This Shinto shrine is about ten minutes on foot from both the Nijusannichi-machi and the Jurokunichi-machi bus stops. Located on the summit of Mt. Choja, it was built in 1678 by Nanbu Naomasa, the second feudal lord of the Hachinohe Domain. The shrine structure visitors see today was constructed over a ten-year period starting in 1826. Its various Edo Period (1603-1868) characteristics have earned it the status of a prefectural treasure. From the first to the third of August, the shrine holds its annual Sansha-Taisai Festival, a nationally Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Other well-known events are the Hachinohe Enburi Festival on February 17 and its Kagami-style Kiba Dakyu Tournament on August 2, featuring a traditional equestrian sport.

八戸市街にある長者山の山上にあるジンジャ・シュラインです。1678年に創建され、八戸三社大祭などの八戸の主要な祭礼の舞台になる場所です。訪問時、残念ながら境内には少し荒廃の兆しが見えたように感じましたが、良いアトモスフィアの場所でした。御朱印あります。
Hachinohe Art Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Hachinohe-shi Bancho 10-4
Rokkasho Village Museum

5.0

2 Reviews

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Aomori Kamikita-gun Rokkashomura

So as to preserve and maintain the many precious ruins and relics from the early to late Jomon period discovered in Rokkasho Village where there are a lot of prehistoric ruins, the museum was established in 1991. Earthenware from different periods of the Jomon period are on display, and using dioramas, they reconstruct hunting scenes, and how people lived (in full size) in (half size) pit dwellings. They also have introductions to materials on folk customs, special exhibitions and hands-on learning experiences.

六ヶ所村の中部、尾駮地区にある博物館です。もっぱら六ヶ所村の地理や歴史についての展示があります。展示はなかなか充実しており、これで入館料が無料というのは申し訳なく感じるほどです。
Shichinohe Town Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art

3.5

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Kamikita-gun Shichinohemachi Arakumanai 67-94

An art museum opened in 1994 to honor the work of Shichinohe Town, Aomori Prefecture-born Western-style painter Uichi Takayama (1908-1999). The museum's standing exhibit primarily contains works submitted to the Nikaten art exhibition, which served as a space for Takayama to reveal his works throughout his career; as well as a large number of sketches which served as the foundation of the artist's creation activities. The museum also holds special exhibitions around twice a year.

七戸町出身の洋画家、鷹山宇一を記念した美術館です。鷹山宇一の作品以外にも、南部地方の絵馬に関する展示や西洋卓上ランプについての展示があり、なかなか見応えがありました。
Kushihiki Hachimangu Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Yawata Hachimanchou 3

All of the Kushihiki Hachimangu Shrine, the general guardian of the Nanbu clan, is registered as an Important Cultural Property which includes Akaito Odoshi Yoroi (odoshi armor with red strings; National Treasure). There is also a National Treasure Museum which holds and exhibits 25 National Cultural Properties, and the elderly cedar trees hundreds of years old on the grounds are also a highlight. Trying on armor or shrine maiden costumes can be enjoyed by parents and children alike and is popular. It is approximately 10 minutes by car from JR Hachinohe Station.
Hachinohe City Fishery Science Museum Marient

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Samemachi Shimomatsunaeba 14-33

A museum which seeks to convey the wonders of the sea from the perspective of fisheries. The museum has many exhibits, including a giant aquarium filled with fish from the ocean off of Hachinohe, a touch tank where visitors can actually touch live sea creatures, and a black-tailed gull exhibit. The museum's feeding demonstrations, deep sea virtual reality exhibit, and experiment corner are popular with children. Visitors are also recommended to eat in the museum's observatory restaurant, which offers a sweeping view of Hachinohe Port.
Misawa History and Folklore Museum

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Aomori Misawa-shi Sabishirotai 116-2955

This museum collects local cultural assets, and also stores and exhibits them. They have on display northern Japan's oldest clay figures, the Noguchi collection centered on red lacquered earthenware from the last part of the Jomon period, prehistorical excavations from Misawa City, and ancient artifacts. They also have a ton of other content including presentations on the damage caused by the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami and the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, mounted animals and photos of plants and animals seen at Lake Ogawara and the lakeshore, as well as fishing gear from fishing in the inland waters and off the coast of the Pacific Ocean, horse gear, farming tools, farming clothes and tools from daily life.

三沢市の小川原湖近くにある民俗資料館です。三沢市の歴史、自然、民俗などについての展示があります。入場料は格安ですが、展示はなかなか充実しています。隣にある寺山修司記念館と併せて訪問するのが良いかと思います。
Futatsumori Kaizuka

4.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Kamikita-gun Shichinohemachi Hachimoritai 181-26

世界遺産を構成する縄文遺跡「二ツ森貝塚」のガイダンス施設です。入場は無料。展示は多くはありませんが、遺跡見学前の学習施設として十分なものになっています。
Tonami Clan Landing Place

Travel / Tourism

Aomori Mutsu-shi Ominatoshincho

This is the landing site of the clan that left Aizu and sailed through the Sea of Japan from Niigata to Tanabu, where the new domain administrative headquarters was located. The number who came ashore at Ohiraura (present-day Ominatoshincho) in 1870 is said to have been around 1,800. There is a historical monument that was constructed in 1990 to teach the story of the clan's voyage to future generations.
Sai Village Straits Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Aomori Shimokita-gun Saimura Sai Univ. Sai 112

This is the northernmost museum on the main Japanese island of Honshu. The museum displays pottery, stoneware, and other artifacts excavated from the ruins of the village, as well as trade goods brought about by the Santan trade from China (Qing Dynasty) during the Edo period (1603-1868). There is also an exhibition of honorary villager Gotaro Mikami, a doctor who followed the spirit of the Red Cross. At the entrance, there are models of the floats used in the Yanonemori Hachimangu Shrine annual festival which has been handed down in the village since 1696, so you can learn about the history and culture of Sai Village.
Nanbu Toshiyasu Mausoleum

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Aomori Sannohe-gun Nanbucho Komukai Shiyo Kotobuki Temple 62-1

Nanbu Toshinao, the 27th chieftain of the Nanbu clan, built this mausoleum for his fourth son Toshiyasu. The mausoleum was constructed with richly colored plated metal fixtures on the lacquering, and it is an important piece of cultural heritage that demonstrates one aspect of magnificent mausoleum construction in the Momoyama style that has been passed down in this region. It was designated a national important cultural asset in 1953.
Futatsumori Kaizuka (Shell Mound)

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Aomori Kamikita-gun Shichinohemachi Kaizuka Ienomae Chinai

"In the area near the confluence of the southwest of Lake Ogawara, the Takase River and the Aka River, there are ruins in a slightly elevated area 30 meters above sea level. They are from the early to middle Jomon period from 5,500 to 4,000 years ago where 27 kinds of shellfish were discovered including basket clams, Manila clams, scallops, oysters, and hamaguri clams. Other than shellfish, bones of fish and mammals as well as pit dwellings and much more has been excavated. The four prefectural treasures are ""blue dragon sword shaped bone tools made from whale bone,"" ""spear points made from deer horn,"" ""jewelry made from boar tusks"" and ""forked objects made from deep horn."""

Aomori Hachinohe / Shimokita Peninsula

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Aomori Areas

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.