Culture / Tour Spots in Hachinohe / Shimokita Peninsula Area

  • Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Aomori
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    4.5
    176 Reviews
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    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.

  • Rokkasho Visitors Center
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    3.5
    16 Reviews
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    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
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
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    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.

  • Mutsu Science Museum
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    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)

  • Hachinohe Art Museum
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    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Bancho 10-4
  • Shichinohe Town Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
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    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。

  • Hachinohe City Fishery Science Museum Marient
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    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.
  • Futatsumori Kaizuka
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
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    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。

  • Sai Village Straits Museum
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    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.
  • Hokuyokan
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    Aomori Pref. Mutsushi Ominatochou 4-1
    An old Western-style structure located on the grounds of the Maritime Self Defense Forces Ominato District Command. A stately stone building built in 1916 as a social hall for naval officers, today the facility is used to display historical items and materials relating to the former Japanese Navy and the Self Defense Forces. The building has also been selected as an excellent example of architecture dating to Japan's Taisho and Showa periods.
  • Tsukahara Museum
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    Aomori Prefecture Hachinohe City Kita Inter Industrial Park 4-2-57 Techno Craft Sea & V Co., Ltd.
    A museum which displays around 50 classic cars from seven countries around the world. From the Toyota 2000GT to the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Ford Model T, and Renault 35CV, the museum is filled with famous vehicles which stood at the cutting-edge of automobiles in their day. All of the museum's vehicles have been lovingly restored by craftsman-not just their exteriors, but even their engines and other internal parts-and visitors can see the cars looking just as gallant as the day they were manufactured. The museum also has cars visitors can actually sit in the driver's seat, such as an experimental Formula Nippon racecar, and people of all ages, whether classic car fans or not, are sure to enjoy themselves.
  • Hani Motoko Memorial Hall Hachinohe Tomo no Ie
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
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    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Sawasato Furumiya 35-3

    日本初の婦人記者として婦人之友を創刊した羽仁もと子の写真や遺品などが展示されています。 入館料は無料のようです。年に二回開催されるバザーでは会員手作りのお菓子屋手芸が購入できます。八戸ニュータウン行のバスで「古宮」で下車してすぐです。 駐車スペースはあまりありません。 開館日につては問い合わせが必要だと思います。毎日開いていないようですので。

  • Ogawara Lake Folk customs Museum
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    Aomori Misawa-shi
  • Senshin Art Museum
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    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Naganawashiro Kami Ikarida 56-2
  • Hachinohe Clinic Machikado Museum
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    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Kashiwazaki 1-chome 8-29
  • Shimokita Cultural Hall Planetarium
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    Aomori Mutsu-shi Kanaya 1-chome 10-1
  • Hachinohe Audiovisual Center‧Children's Science Museum
    Travel / Tourism
    Aomori Hachinohe-shi
  • Tohokumachi Japan Chuo no Monument History Park
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    Aomori Kamikita-gun Tohokumachi Ienoshita 39-5
  • Oma Town Livestock Materials Exhibition Facility
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    Aomori Shimokita-gun Omamachi Oma Uchiyama 48-1
  • Chiisana Art Museum Mimosa
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    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Mihono 13-928

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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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