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Aomori Summer Festival - Nebuta Festival
Saturday I was off on another wonderful ITT (Information, Tickets & Tours - one of the operations my "Fun Stuff Squadron" runs).
The Aomori Nebuta Festival is one of the many summer festivals in Japan. While several other cities also have this type of festival, the one in Aomori attracts the largest number of tourists and is one of three ...
Aomori: Neputa 2
... to a lot of outside observers, who might feel that they themselves would remain caught up in the nightmare.
So for those few moments during the festival, everyone remembers not just 3 hours away by bullet train is an entire swathe of country with little to celebrate, but this is not greeted by tears or rending of garments but a quiet, sincere hope for better days ahead. And then the floats come by, the music thrums back in and you're back ...
Hirosaki: Neputa Festival
Hakodate and Aomori are connected by two main routes—train (around 5000Y, 3 hours) and by ferry (4 hours). Since I was not on any rail pass that would cover the train between Hakodate and Aomori, I thought I'd try to save some money by taking the ferry. The two companies that serve this route are Seikan ferry (1750 Y, one way) and Tsuruga Ferry (about 3000 Y, one way). The main difference seems to be that the Tsurugu ferry is meant to be a passenger ...
Hite Hite
Woke up in Aomori on Tuesday located at the northern tip of Honshu Island at the same latitude as New York. This place is famous for apples, Nebuta - no - Sato (sleeping floats) and the last samarai warrior in Japan.
The great floats represent Japanese legend and myth and our group became certified float operators, which now when we return, we are guaranteed ...
Lit From Within
[This entry sure was a long time coming! I uploaded the pictures two weeks ago, but then the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake happened and I thought it would be more topical to write about that instead, hence the long break between this entry and the previous one about Aomori.]
On my third and last day in Aomori my main goal was to eat scallops. To avoid a repeat of the day before, I didn't eat quite as much at the hotel. Emily, you'll ...
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Other places to stay in Hirosaki
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Hoshino Yado Hakuchoza
113-2 Mizukizaike Sakurai, Hirosaki | Ryokan -
Mitsuyo Onsen
13-3 Satomi Owasawa, Hirosaki | Ryokan
