Jal City Aomori

4-12 Yasukata, 2 Chome Aomori, Aomori, Tohoku, 030-0803, Japan

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Aomori: Neputa 2

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... I think it's a sign from above that I was meant to do this trip with a lot less baggage--my Mp3 player is on the fritz (after the clip having broken); my watch is on it's last legs; my Maoist cap has been lost; my hiking pole was lost then recovered. So as I always say, 'Next time, I'll know.' Fat chance I'll actually learn from this though.

Anyway, two things I really do need in Japan at the moment is a watch (because trains run to the ...

Hirosaki: Neputa Festival

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... by shouts from the rest of the parade.

Each float is sponsored by some local group, either a municipal department, or a company or maybe some civic organization. The Hirosaki neputa are fan shaped, where workers stand inside on a platform to help pull up and down the flaps so they don’t get caught in the electrical wires down the parade route. The floats are constructed of inner wire supports and an outer painted paper shell. When ...

Hite Hite

A travel blog entry by daryljapan

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... floats are built, one per year and are part of the 'sleeping festival' where the goal is to wake up the float. Crowd participation is essential

From there we visited Seir yu ji temple with one of the largest bronze buddha's in all of Japan. It was also here that we were blessed with meeting the last samuarai descended from the samaurai depicted in Clavell's book ...

Lit From Within

A travel blog entry by gadelle

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... as museums go; as you enter, there's a hall with displays explaining the origins and the evolution of the festival (it's all in Japanese) and showing how the floats are made. They used to be made of bamboo and paper and lit with candles, but nowadays the frames are made of wire and the lighting is all electric.

Once you pass the educational portion of things, hanging fish lanterns guide you down a sloping hall and as you turn ...

Floats

A travel blog entry by gadelle

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... a bizarre triangular structure which stands by the edge of the bay, and I parted ways with them there. The ASPAM building exists, as far as I could tell, simply to promote Aomori and all its products: the ground floor is nothing but souvenir shops and food stalls, and the other floors house various restaurants, exhibition halls and the like. The 13th floor is an observatory, which is where I decided to rest my feet for a bit.

There's a small admission fee ...

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