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- Aoike (Juniko) 9 metres deep and clear to the bottom: nothing but spring water over pale rock.
- Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art Nara Yoshitomo's dog, 8.5 m tall, plays on the name: 犬 and 県 are read the same way, ‘ken’.
- Hakkōda Ropeway It only closes when the wind is above 25 m/s: ten minutes to reach the juhyō in winter.
- Hakkōda-maru Memorial Ship — Seikan train ferry It linked Aomori and Hakodate for 23 years and 7 months: moored just as it was in 1988.
- Hasshoku Center Seventy shops along a 170-metre covered street: you grill at your own table, over charcoal.
- Hirosaki Castle (弘前公園) The 1810 tenshu was recorded as a ‘turret’, never a ‘castle’, so as not to offend the shogunate.
- Iwakiyama Shrine Its August festival climbs the mountain barefoot: national intangible heritage since 1980.
- Lake Towada (Yasumiya) A double caldera from 15–35 thousand years ago: 326.8 m, the third deepest lake in Japan.
- Miroku Yokochō Twenty-six stalls in a row: in 2024 thirteen new places renewed half of them.
- Nebuta no Ie Wa-Rasse It displays real floats all year round, fresh from the August parade: not replicas.
- Oirase Gorge (Ishigedo) Born of the breach in Towada's bank: 14 km of trail past about ten waterfalls.
- Osorezan Bodai-ji Founded in 862, open only from May to October: here, tradition says, the afterlife begins.
- Sannai-Maruyama Archaeological Site Over 2,000 dogū figurines have come out of here: the highest number from a single site in Japan.
- Shōwa Daibutsu — Seiryū-ji 21.35 metres of bronze, 220 tonnes: the largest seated Buddha in Japan, since 1984.
- Sukayu Onsen In 1954 it was Japan's first ‘国民保養温泉地’: the spring had been discovered in 1684.
- Tatehana Ganpeki Morning Market Three hundred stalls on 800 m of quay, only on Sundays at dawn: it closes by 8:30.