Best Tourist Spots In Aomori
Here're best Tourist Spots in Aomori. We released a ranking of reviews about Tourist Spots posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Aomori.
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In November, the temperature drops in this season, the snow sheets the fall foliage and make them more beautiful, special scenery. You can see the collaboration of autumn leaves and snow only in the area which has an early snow!
Name
Hirosaki Castle
Address
1 Shimoshirogane-cho, Hirosaki-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 10min from Hirosaki Station, 25 min from Owani Hirosaki IC. By bus, 15 min from Hirosaki Station, get off at 'Shiyakusho-mae (City Hall), then walk 4 min.
Impressive lush greens and rich wet air. Fast and slow streams offer the different scenery of the mountain. And you can find hydrangeas on the walking paths in this rainy reason.
Name
Oirase Stream
Address
Okuse, Towada-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Juni-ko(twelve ponds) area is walkable around a nature forest and ponds in the World Heritage, Shirakami Mountains. Among all, Aoike's beautiful color of blue is unbelievable. By the way, even today's science can't make clear why Aoike has such a blue color.
Name
Juniko Lake
Address
Fukaura-machi, Nishitsugaru-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
90 min by car from Noshirominami IC. Parking area is available. By bus, 15 min from JR Juniko Station to the terminus.
Osorezan is not a name of the mountain but of a sacred place. A crater lake in the center of here is named Usori Lake, and its mysterious color attracts visitors silently.
Name
Osorezan
Address
Usoriyama Tanabu, Mutsu-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
There're many old trees that are supposed to be more than 100 years old at Hirosaki Park. Among them, this ginkgo tree supposed to be 300 years old and seems to move any moment for the root are naked, is worth seeing very much.
Name
Hirosaki Park
Address
1 Shimoshirogane-cho, Hirosaki-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 10 min from Hirosaki Station, or 25 min from Owani Hirosaki IC. By bus, 15 min from Hirosaki Station to City Hall, then 4 min walk.
Its arch is 255 meters long, which is the longest in Japan. Jogakura Mountain River flows under the bridge. And you can overlook the colored mountains in the season of fall foliage. On sunny days, you can even see Mt.Iwaki known as a name 'Tsugaru Fuji'.
Name
Jogakura Ohashi Bridge
Address
1-1 Yama Minami Arakawa Arakawa, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Inakadate Village is the birthplace of rice plant art. It's very impressive for us to see such a huge art made up by only rice that we eat everyday. You can enjoy the natural art changing its colors day by day.
Name
Inakadate Rice Plant Art
Address
123-1 Inakadate Nakatsuji Inakadate-mura, Minamitsugaru-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
Hotoke-ga ura is a scenic spot of huge and strangely shaped stones standing at Shimokita Peninsula in Aomori. Superb view of overwhelming huge stones lying all over the place. Furthermore, the contrast of the blue sea and white stones makes more beautiful scenery.
Name
Hotokegaura Beach
Address
Kiimura, Shimokita-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
Canola Flower In May In Yokohama! Japan's Largest Canola Flower FieldCanola Flower Fastival Yokohama
It's not a famous Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, but it's Yokohama in Mutsu Peninsula, Aomori Prefecture. There're canola flower fields whose acreage for planting is the largest in Japan, and they become their best from the mid to the end of May! You can enjoy them with your five senses, such as canola flower maze and canola flower doughnut.◎This address shows the main place of Canola Flower Festival. There're flower fields in some other places, and, if it's sunny, you can see the Mt. Fukkoshieboshi and Mt. Kamafuse over the Mutsu Bay with canola flowers. A road station Yokohama's 'Nanohana Plaza' has some canola flower foods. To access here, you should ordinary use car, taxi, or bus. During some events, there's sometimes free shuttle bus available from JR Mustu Yokohama Station.
Name
Canola Flower Fastival Yokohama
Address
98-62 Mameda Yokohama-machi, Kamikita-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 120 min from Aomori Airport, 80 min from Shimodamomoishi IC, 80 min from Aomori Higashi (East) IC, or 15 min from Mutsu Yokohama Station. By bus, 50 min from Nohe Station to Mameda, then 20 min walk, or 40 min from Mutsu Bus Terminal to Mameda, then 20 min walk.
It's a scenic place commands Hokkaido in the north, Tappi-zaki Point in the west, Shimokita Peninsula in the east. I feel free to my mind by the huge ocean and sky I can see to the distance.
Name
Tsugaru National Park Horozuki Kaigan Takano-saki
Address
Horozuki Imabetsu-machi, Higashitsugaru-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
Many art works are dotted around the Art Center, and united with the woods, which are very unique!
Name
Aomori Contemporary Art Center
Address
1-52-6 Goushizawa, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Tel
017-764-5200
Hours
9:00-19:00
It's really nice to be able to go to the sea easily. On sunny days, walking with a coffee makes you feel refreshed.
Name
New Central Pier
Address
3 Hon-cho, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
During the 'Kuroishi Yosare Matsuri Festival' held in August every year, this tasteful Komise Dori Street will be crowded by a lot of people.
Name
Kuroishi Komise Dori Street
Address
Naka-machi, Kuroishi-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
At Nebuta Museum WA RASSE just near Aomori Station, you can see Nebuta once used and the exhibitions to learn about it. Nebuta is beautiful as it is, what's more, you can have a chance to touch and see it closer,◎1 min walk from JR Aomori Station The admission fee is 600 yen.
Name
Nebuta Museum WA RASSE
Address
1-1-1 Yasukata, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Tel
017-752-1311
Hours
9:00-19:00
Fee
Adult 600 yen、Child 250 yen
How to get there
1 min walk from JR Aomori Station. 40 min by bus from Aomori Airport.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Aomori Lights & Paper Pageant is going to open till March 4th (Sun). There're many small lights made by the local people, and these lanterns make the cold winter warm.◎2017.12.1-2018.3.4. 16:00-21:00. Parking area is available.
Name
Aomori Lights & Paper Pageant
Address
A-Factory 1-4-2 Yanakawa, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
Though some people have an dangerous image for Hakkōdasan Mountains in winter, in fact, it's a very scenic place where we can access easily by a ropeway and enjoy seeing the snow rime. If the weather is good, we can see the countless snow rimed trees, Aomori town stretches below, what's more, people who have confidence in one's own abilities, can enjoy mountain skiing!
Name
Hakkōdasan Mountains
Address
1-12 Kansuizawa, Arakawa, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
60 min by bus from Aomori Station to Hakkōda Ropeway Station, then take the ropeway to the mountain top.
Parking
Free parking area is available
At Tsutanuma Lake in autumn, the mountain changes its color in a flash when the light of the morning sun comes, and it reflects on the quiet water surface. Breathtakingly beautiful scenery! And it's Aomori's proud water mirror. I really want you to see this gorgeous scenery in a cool air of autumn...
Name
Tsutanuma Lake
Address
Okuse, Towada-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Iwaki Mountain is called 'Tsugaru Fuji' and familiar with the local people. Iwaki Shrine stands at the foot of it. Its building is so beautiful that it's admired as 'a inner part of Nikko', so it's a place worth visiting.◎This is a day of 'Oyama Sankei', many people come to visit.
Name
Iwakiyama Shrine
Address
27 Terasawa Hyakusawa, Hirosaki-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Aomori Nebuta festival is held every August. Powerful and huge Nebuta decorations walk around the town. You can enjoy even seeing them, but it'll be more exciting for anyone to join the festival and become a dancer's haneto costume!
Name
Aomori Nebuta Festival
Address
Hashimoto, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
