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Aomori · Japan
In the destination Aomori and Hirosaki.
In the photo: Pagoda and gate of Saisho-in Temple, in Hirosaki.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Hirosaki is the former seat of the Tsugaru clan, in western Aomori, at the foot of Mount Iwaki. It has the castle, with one of Japan’s twelve remaining original keeps, set in a park with thousands of cherry trees; the samurai district of Nakacho; Zenrin Avenue, with its Sōtō school temples; and European-style Meiji-era buildings. It is the center of the country’s largest apple-producing region.
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The local experience
The Tsugaru clan castle, with an original 1810 keep, gates, moats and Edo-period walls, set in a park of about 50 hectares with more than 2,500 cherry trees and the Fujita Garden beside it.
A samurai residential quarter north of Hirosaki Castle, with streets lined by hedges, wooden gates and Edo-period houses open to visitors.
The Tsugaru family’s Zen temple at the end of Zenrin Street, with a two-story gate from 1629 and mausoleums of the clan lords, on a street with thirty-three Soto school temples.
Beyond the guide
