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Aomori
Aomori is the prefecture at the northern tip of Honshu, facing Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, a country of beech forest, caldera lakes and mountain onsen.
Tsuta-numa, in the beech forest of Aomori
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the place
The far north of Honshu, beech forest and a lake in a crater.
The Hakkoda mountains rise at its centre, their beech forest running down to the Oirase gorge and the caldera of Lake Towada, and in the west the Shirakami-Sanchi forest, a World Natural Heritage Site, is one of the last great stands of virgin beech in East Asia. Hirosaki keeps its castle keep of 1810 in a park of moats and gates, and outside Aomori city the Jomon settlement of Sannai-Maruyama, some five thousand years old, is part of a World Heritage Site of its own.
The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan crosses to Aomori by the Shinkansen beneath the Tsugaru Strait and gives it two nights at Tsuta Onsen, a wooden inn in the beech forest whose main onsen is built over its own spring. The Custom Tour of Japan can bring any of the prefecture into a journey created around your party alone.
what we do here
Aomori, as we show it
Oirase and Lake Towada
Fourteen kilometres of stream, waterfall and moss, and the deep blue caldera at its head.
Tsuta-numa
A still pond in the beech forest, the trees mirrored whole in it.
Lake Towada from above Hirosaki
The castle keep above its moats, and the old samurai quarter around it.
Sannai-Maruyama
A Jomon settlement some five thousand years old, its great timber posts raised again.
Apples
Aomori grows more of Japan's apples than anywhere else, and they come to the table in every form.
nearby
Near Aomori
questions
Questions about Aomori
Which of your tours visit Aomori?
The Autumn Leaves Tour of Northern Japan spends two nights in Aomori at Tsuta Onsen, with the Oirase gorge and Lake Towada.
How do you reach Aomori?
By the Tohoku Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori, about three hours, or by the Hokkaido Shinkansen beneath the Tsugaru Strait from Hakodate.
Can you plan a private journey to Aomori?
Yes. The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone, on your dates. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans the days for you.
Aomori, created for you alone.
The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone, on your dates, and Aomori can be any part of it. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.