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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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  • Uminoeki Wando
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Pref. Nishitsugarugunajigasawamachi Honchou 246-4
    This is a tourist information center and local produce shop along the Omagoshi Highway in Honmachi, Ajigasawa, NishitsugaruCounty. Local seafood and produce, and such products as sasamochi and deli items like igamenchi are sold here. Adjoinging this facility is a small diner and a rest area. The Ajigasawa Sumo Museum and the Maenoumi Gallery displays sumo artifacts and memorabilia of Maenoumi, the famous hometown wrestler hero.
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  • Japanese Feudal Lord Princess Costumes Dressing Experience
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Shimoshiroganecho 1
    "At Butokuden (Kita no Kuruwa) in Hirosaki Park, you can experience wearing kimonos all year round. It has a good reputation because you can wear Japanese clothing such as a gallant armor or an elegant overgarment called ""uchikake"" to dress as if you were a samurai lord or a princess, and you can take memorable photos there. The area has an admission fee from April to November 23rd, but both the experience and photography fees are reasonable. Be sure to experience it during your trip to Hirosaki."
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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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  • Narita Senzo Coffee Joto Restaurant
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Joto Kita 2-7-4
    A cafe which delivers authentic flavors from Hirosaki City. Using beans crafted by expert roasters in the Kita no Coffee Kobo roasterie, this highly popular establishment serves coffee lovingly brewed one cup at a time using a unique nel drip method. The coffee cups from around the world adorning the shelves and the historic, long-used coffee utensils on display hint at the cafe's history.

    旧制弘前高等学校外国人教師館は、弘前大学内にあり市の有形文化財に指定されています。弘前駅方向から来ると大学構内で最初に目にするのがこの建物です。この建物は、ノスタルジックとインテリジェンスを兼ね備えていて2016年6月19日に弘大カフェとして新たにオープンしたそうです。残念ながら訪れた日は、朝早く行ったため建物内には入れませんでしたが、建物の周りには椅子とテーブルがあり自由に休むことができるので...

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  • Shikanai Senbei Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Shinteramachi 32
    "At this confectionery store, you can get not only the traditional Tsugaru rice crackers but also confectioneries that use various motifs such as cherry blossoms, apples, giant floats in the Neputa festival, and Mt. Shirakami. In addition, they also make a popular confectionery called the ""Saijiki Kashi"" only once a year, and the timing is based upon the 24 divisions of the solar calendar and literary calendar."
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  • Herbs & Aroma Salon Hirata
    Style / Fashion
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Omachi 3-2-5
    This salon proposes a peaceful lifestyle with aroma therapy, herbs and organic items. They sell a wide variety of items such as essential oils, herbal teas and original goods on the first floor. You can receive aesthetic treatments on the second floor. Because it is certified by the Aroma Environment Association of Japan, you can also assuredly attend lectures and seminars here.
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  • PATISSERIE LE CHOCOLAT
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Okachimachi 17-1
    This patisserie serves desserts that use ingredients that are in season and will make you feel at home. They have a wide selection of desserts to charm you, including mini gateaux, birthday cakes, baked sweets, truffle chocolates, and even desserts perfect as gifts and for celebrations, like wedding cakes. They also have a cafe space inside the store, so you can enjoy your favorite cake with a drink in a leisurely environment.
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  • Hobby Shop Tsukiya
    Shopping
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Dotemachi 122-8
    This store sells a variety of Japanese and western dressmaking and handicraft goods. They even have a wide variety of supplies for Kogin, a traditional decorative reinforcement stitching method in Tsugaru of Aomori prefecture, and other original and limited-edition products. They also have handwoven and leathercraft products, golden turtles and clovers, so those who like handicrafts should visit this store.
  • Miyamoto Kogei
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Minamiyokocho 7
    It is said that the Akebizuru-zaiku basket-weaving method was passed on to Aomori by a ronin from Aizu who came to the Dake Hot Springs to recover in the final years of the Edo period (1853-1867). This store, which was established in 1949, still preserves this art of weaving by hand and passionately produces bags, baskets and handbags with the crimson glory motif.
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  • Hirosaki City Naka-cho Traditional Samurai House Preservation Area
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Bakurocho Wakadocho
    Nakamachi, which today still has a unique scenery such as Sawara cypress hedges and fences, was the area where most samurai residences were located in the castle town of Hirosaki castle. It has a land area of about 10.6 hectares, and it has become important as a place that conveys the scenery of the samurai residences of the Edo period (1603-1868).
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  • Patisserie Verger
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Hyakkokumachi 18
    Established in 2004 and relocated in 2013, this bakery is ever-popular. You can enjoy dining in a shop with a refined exterior inspired by the color white and a spotlessly clean interior that would rival any jeweler. The sweets, refined through years of practice, are as cute as anything, and the cakes are known to delight both the eyes and the mouth.

    弘前でも１，２位を争うケーキ屋さんですね。生クリームが上品なので好きです。ショートケーキとモンブランを買いました。幸せ気分になりました。

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  • Iwakisan Kanko Ringo-en
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Hyakuzawa Terasawa 120-3
    A 33 thousand square meter apple orchard. The farm cultivates some 2,000 apple trees of varying sizes spanning 40 varieties, from Vista Bella which fruit in late July; to Indo apples, an old-fashioned favorite in Japan. In addition to apples, the farm also grows peaches, plums, nectarines, Asian pears, and more, and visitors can enjoy picking the fruits for which Aomori is famous.
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  • Sekai-ichi no Sakura Namiki
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Hyakuzawa Susono
    This is a row of 6,500 North Japanese hill cherry trees planted around the Prefectural Route 3 leading to Mt. Iwaki. The trees were planted over ten years from 1985, and they add a bright red color to the green mountain. The best time is from late April to early May every year. Since the trees are planted in areas with altitudes differing by 250 meters, the flowering period varies slightly depending on the location and they can be enjoyed over a long period of time.
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  • Iwakisan Yoho
    Life / Living / Hospital
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi
    This collection area of pure domestic honey is located at the foot of Mt. Iwaki. At the bee yard based in Aomori Prefecture, honey collected by mobile beekeeper Kiyoharu Miura is squeezed in the mountains and sold as is. It is a popular beekeeping site that specially harvests their own honey, and since the bees are mobile, they are able to harvest during the season where the flowers are in best condition without compromising the flavors.
  • Noel de Hirosaki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Shinakawamachi 2-2
    This shop wants to utilize Aomori Prefecture's treasured apples in sweets. With that sentiment in their minds, this Western confectionary store creates sweets that are distinctive of Aomori. Their specialty apple pie has won the 2014 Aomori Brand Certified Product 2nd Apple Pie Contest Hirosaki Award. Butter and cinnamon are added to Tsugaru's fresh apples (Fuji) and baked with a decadent aroma.
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  • Ebisuya Hakimono Shop
    Shopping
    Aomori Hirosaki-shi Honcho 104
    "This historic footwear store was opened in 1882. ""Tsugaru painted clogs"" made with the techniques of skilled craftsmen were once produced there, but now only sales and repairs are accepted at the store. Tsugaru painted clogs are water resistant Japanese wooden clogs made of Paulownia wood. And the ""Grapevine clogs"" are Paulownia wooden clogs with wild grape's vine that are good on the feet. There are also ""Basket Weave Ladies' Clogs"" with a thick strap on the base of the basket weave, which is characterized by its fine pattern design."
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