Aomori

Flavour

A

Sake

Aomori Seishu

Flavour

I

Hot pots and soups

Ichigo Ni

Flavour

J

Hot pots and soups

Jappa Jiru

Flavour

K

Grilled

Kaiyaki Miso

Flavour

K

Hot pots and soups

Kenojiru

Flavour

K

Noodles

Kuroishi Tsuyu Yakisoba

Flavour

M

Noodles

Miso Curry Gyunyu Ramen

Flavour

M

Fish and shellfish

Mizu Hoya

Flavour

N

Rice bowls

Nokke Don

Flavour

S

Fish and shellfish

Same Sukume

Flavour

S

Hot pots and soups

Senbei Jiru

Flavour

T

Grilled

Towada Barayaki

Trade

A

Places of trade

Aomori Gyosai Center (Furukawa Market)

You carry the bowl around with you.

Trade

A

Tourism and lodging

Aomori Museum of Art and Sannai-Maruyama

The ceiling height changes from gallery to gallery.

Trade

H

Places of trade

Hachinohe Miroku Yokocho

Eight people and it is full.

Trade

T

Places of trade

Tatehana Wharf Morning Market

The quay becomes a market at first light.

Trade

T

Producing region

Tsugaru-nuri Lacquer Workshops

The pattern is not painted on; it is ground out.

Trade

H

Places of trade / Commuter belt

Hirosaki Nakacho Samurai Quarter

The hedges are sawara, an evergreen.

Trade

K

Primary industry / Places of trade

Kuroishi Nakamachi Komise Arcades

The eaves come out over the road.

Trade

T

Tourism and lodging / Commuter belt

Towada Art Museum and the Government District

The art here has come outside.

Event

H

Hachinohe Enburi: Going Out into the Snow to Call In Spring

In Hachinohe, on the snowbound Pacific coast of Aomori, spri…

Event

H

Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival

The castle comes second here.

Event

H

Hachinohe Sansha Taisai: Three Shrines, One Midsummer Night

Three shrines — Chojayama Shinra, Shinmeigu, and Ogami — sen…

Event

H

Hirosaki Neputa Festival

Where Aomori's Nebuta moves fast and loud, Hirosaki's Neputa…

Event

A

Aomori Nebuta Festival

Nine meters wide, five meters tall — the nebuta floats move…

Event

G

Goshogawara Tachineputa

Look up, and your neck will ache.

Event

T

Towada Oirase Art Festival

The sound of the mountain stream becomes part of the work.

Event

T

Tsugaru Ground Blizzard Experience

Jifubuki is not snow falling.

Event

O

Peak color late October to early November

Oirase Gorge

At night, the river is turned down.

Event

H

Peak color late September to mid-October

Hakkoda

Hakkoda is not one mountain.

Event

A

Peak bloom late April to early May

Ashino Park Cherry Blossoms

There is a railway station inside the park.

Onsen

I

Ikarigaseki Onsen

Onsen

K

Kamikita Onsen

Onsen

M

Michinoku Onsen

Onsen

N

Nuruyu Onsen

Onsen

S

Shimofuro Onsen

Onsen

T

Towadakohan Onsen

Onsen

H

Hiraka Onsen

Onsen

I

Itadome Onsen

Onsen

G

Gonohe Makiba Onsen

Onsen

H

Hakkoda Onsen

Onsen

F

Furutobe Onsen

Onsen

M

Minamida Onsen

Onsen

D

Daibo Onsen

Onsen

O

Ochiai Onsen

Onsen

O

Oirase Keiryu Onsen

Onsen

T

Tara Pokki Onsen

Onsen

M

Mutsu Yatate Onsen

Onsen

S

Sannai Onsen

Onsen

K

Karatake Onsen

Onsen

J

Jogakura Onsen

Onsen

S

Sakanoseki Onsen

Onsen

F

Furo Fushi Onsen

Onsen

T

Tsuta Onsen

Onsen

S

Sukayu Onsen

Onsen

A

Asamushi Onsen

Onsen

K

Kuroishi Onsen-kyo

Onsen

O

Owani Onsen

Town

a

aomorishi

Ferries still cross from Aomori Port to Hakodate, and the rhythm of loading and unloading has shaped this city's metabolism for centuries.

Town

a

ajigasawamachi

The fish come in at Ajigasawa port on the Japan Sea side, and the town organizes itself quietly around that fact.

Town

i

itayanagimachi

The grid of streets in the old town center still follows the masu-gata layout of the Edo period — right-angle turns that once slowed down intruders and now simply slow down a quiet afternoon walk.

Town

i

inakadatemura

The Konan Line train from Hirosaki slows through flat paddy country, and the station that announces itself as Tanbo Art —田んぼアート駅 — sits beside fields that, in season, have been planted in deliberate patterns using varieties of rice selected for their color.

Town

i

imabetsumachi

The road north along Route 280 narrows as the peninsula tapers toward the sea.

Town

o

oirasechou

The Oirase River cuts east through flat farmland before meeting the Pacific, and the fields on either side grow strawberries, long yam, and carrot in rotation.

Town

o

oomamachi

The bus from Shimokita Station takes the better part of two hours, tracking down the peninsula until the road narrows and the sea appears on both sides.

Town

o

oowanimachi

The moya­shi grown here is not ordinary bean sprout.

Town

k

kazamauramura

Mountains press down to the strait here, leaving almost no flat ground between the ridgeline and the water.

Town

k

kuroishishi

The Konan Line from Hirosaki runs south through apple orchards before it reaches Kuroishi, the rows of trees dense and low against the wide Tsugaru plain.

Town

g

goshogawarashi

The two train lines that stop here — JR's Gonō Line and the private Tsugaru Railway — already suggest something about Goshogawara's position: a junction town on the Tsugaru Peninsula where routes converge but the crowds do not.

Town

g

gonohemachi

Slopes rise through dense forest as the bus from Hachinohe pushes inland, the hills thickening until the valley of the Gonohe River opens below.

Town

s

saimura

The high-speed ferry from near Aomori Station cuts across the Tsugaru Strait and arrives at Sai port, where the mountains of the Osorezan range press close behind a thin strip of coastal settlement.

Town

s

sannohemachi

Garlic and apples share shelf space at the roadside station on the edge of town, alongside bundles of dried tobacco leaf — the particular mix of produce that tells you Sannohe sits at a border, where the rice paddies of Aomori's south meet the upland farms running toward Iwate.

Town

s

shichinohemachi

Horses are bred here before they race anywhere else.

Town

s

shingoumura

The road into Shingo follows Route 454 through dense mountain forest, the ridgeline of Towada-Hachimantai pressing in from both sides.

Town

s

sotogahamamachi

The wind off the Tsugaru Strait arrives before anything else — a cold, lateral push that bends the grasses near Ryūhizaki and makes the lighthouse stand out against the sky with particular clarity.

Town

t

takkomachi

The smell reaches you before anything else — a faint, earthy sharpness drifting across the fields that line the road in from Sannohe.

Town

t

tsugarushi

The clams come up from Jūsanko in the early morning — small, dark-shelled shijimi from the brackish lake where the Iwaki River meets the sea.

Town

t

tsurutamachi

Apple orchards line the flat roads of Tsuruta-machi, and in autumn the roadside stands fill with Steuben grapes — a dark, round variety that the town has made its own across generations of cultivation.

Town

t

touhokumachi

Smelt pulled from brackish water, shijimi clams raked from the shallows, long yam lifted from the flat fields — the produce of Tohoku-machi tends to arrive at the table with a directness that matches the landscape itself.

Town

t

towadashi

The grid-pattern streets of this inland Aomori city carry an unusual confidence — wide, deliberate, planted with rows of Somei Yoshino along Kanchogai-dori, one of the designated hundred great roads of Japan.

Town

n

nakadomarimachi

At the edge of Jūsanko, small dark shells pile up in wooden crates near the water.

Town

n

nanbuchou

The data for this place is thin — four stations, one cultural property (南部利康霊屋), and a municipal name that points to southern Aomori Prefecture.

Town

n

nishimeyamura

The road into Nishimeya follows the river upstream, the beech canopy closing in as the valley narrows.

Town

n

nohejimachi

The wind off Mutsu Bay arrives before anything else — cold, persistent, carrying the smell of salt and, on certain mornings, the particular flatness that precedes heavy snow.

Town

h

hashikamichou

Coastal terraces drop toward the Pacific in long flat shelves, and the fishing harbors at Kozunawatari and Sakaki sit low against the water, their boats returning with sea urchin and abalone from one of the richest stretches of the Sanriku coast.

Town

h

hachinoheshi

Squid and mackerel come ashore at eight戸港 in quantities that define the rhythm of the city.

Town

h

higashidoorimura

At the northeastern tip of the Shimokita Peninsula, the wind off the Tsugaru Strait arrives without apology.

Town

h

hirakawashi

Apple orchards line the roads south of Hirakawa, their rows running toward mountains that mark the Akita border.

Town

h

hiranaimachi

Scallop rafts sit on the water in rows, barely visible through the morning haze over Mutsu Bay.

Town

h

hirosakishi

Snow stays deep here well into spring, and the city runs its life around that fact.

Town

f

fukauramachi

The Gono Line runs close enough to the sea that on certain stretches the waves seem level with the tracks.

Town

f

fujisakimachi

Flat land, orchard rows, and the faint smell of apple skin in the air — this is the Tsugaru plain at its most agricultural.

Town

m

misawashi

Planes take off from a runway shared by the U.S.

Town

m

mutsushi

The Ōminato Line arrives at its terminus and the sea is already visible — Mutsu Bay opening wide beyond the platform, the air carrying salt and something colder underneath.

Town

y

yokohamamachi

Rapeseed fields line the coastal strip between the Mutsu Bay and the ridge of Fukigoshi Eboshi, yellow in the growing season, pressed later into the canola oil sold under the name 御なたね油 at the roadside station whose locals call 菜の花プラザ.

Town

y

yomogitamura

Rivers cut west to east through Yomogita, draining from the slopes of Ōkuradake down to the flat edge of Mutsu Bay.

Town

r

rokunohemachi

Flat tableland stretches along the Oirase River, and the fields here produce garlic bulbs grown to an unusual size, alongside nagaimo and carrots.

Town

r

rokkashomura

Wind turbines stand along the Pacific coast of the Shimokita Peninsula, their blades turning above a landscape of wetland lakes and snow-heavy winters.