Hirosaki

Hirosaki City in Aomori prefecture is located in the northern tip of the main Honshu Island. Blue sky and majestic mountains, vibrantly blooming cherry blossoms and a castle which is one of Japan's most spectacular cherry blossom spots typically from late April to early May.

Hirosaki Castle

Hirosaki Castle (弘前城) is located in Hirosaki Park, a spacious public park. It served as the base for the Tsugaru Clan, for whom wise choices in whose side to take in the major battles ending the violent Sengoku Period saw a minor clan make great advances in national rankings.

Hirosaki Park

Hirosaki Park is one of Japan's best cherry blossom spots.With its abundance of over 2500 trees, tunnels,petal filled moats,picnic areas, rental rowing boats,varieties of cherry trees and illuminations in the evenings, it feels like multiple great cherry blossom spots combined into a single one

Former Samurai District

When the Tsugaru Clan sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, they ensured their authority as the feudal lords of Hirosaki for the 250 years of the Edo Period.

Fujita Memorial Garden

The Fujita Memorial Japanese Garden (Fujita Kinen Teien) was built in 1919 in the style of a traditional Japanese landscape garden. The spacious garden is separated into two main parts, an upper section and a lower section. It is named after its first owner, a local business man named Fujita Kenichi.

The Neputa Mura (Neputa Village)

The Neputa Mura or Neputa Village is a tourist spot where visitors can experience a quasi-Hirosaki Neputa Festival.

Hirosaki Apple Park

It is a theme park about apple in Hirosaki, and is located 2.5 km southwest of Hirosaki Castle. This park has a farm with 1,200 trees and 65 varieties of apples, then we can experience to cultivate apples.

Former Hirosaki City Library

This library was built to commemorate victory in the Japanese-Russo War in 1906 and was used as city library until 1931. It is a 3-story wooden mortar building with twin octagonal towers constructed in Renaissance style.

Hirosaki Catholic Church

The Hirosaki Catholic Church is a wooden Romanesque structure built by Yokoyama Tsunekichi, the brother of Horie Sakichi. The Gothic altar, made in 1866, was donated by the St. Thomas Church of Amsterdam. The beautiful stained glass windows, donated by Father Carron from Canada.

Mt.Iwaki

Mount Iwaki is a compound volcano located in the southwest portion of the Tsugaru Plain. The mountain has a conical shape with three peaks. Standing 1,625 meters high, it is the highest mountain in the prefecture.The summit offers a panoramic view stretching as far as Matsumaezaki in Hokkaido.

Iwakiyama Shrine

Located at the foot of the beautiful Mount Iwaki, which is also called Tsugaru’s Fuji. The shrine was built approximately 1,200 years ago to enshrine a local deity with locally grown Hiba (a type of cypress), with some of the oldest wood having withstood the snow and wind for over 390 years.