青森県 · Tohoku Region
Aomori Hidden Gems
The apple orchards and beech forests at the top of Honshu, where Japan's most explosive summer festival meets some of its oldest surviving woodland.
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Climate & Best Season
Cold and famously snowy — the Hakkoda mountains record among the deepest snowfall on earth. Mild summers around 25°C; visit August for Nebuta, October for autumn colour.
Famous For (Food)
- Apples
- Ōma bluefin tuna
- Scallops
- Senbei-jiru (cracker hotpot)
Signature Sights
- Nebuta Matsuri
- Shirakami-Sanchi beech forest
- Lake Towada & Oirase Gorge
- Hirosaki Castle cherry blossoms
Aomori
Aomori· Towada
Towada Art Center
Towada is a small city on the Aomori plain laid out on a grid by the Meiji government, and in 2008 it did something unus…
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Aomori
Aomori· Goshogawara
Shayokan
Dazai Osamu wrote No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, drowned himself in 1948 at thirty-eight, and is read by essential…
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