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Aomori Top 10
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![Four Great Tohoku Festivals]( "Four Great Tohoku Festivals")
1Four Great Tohoku Festivals
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![Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!]( "Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!")
2Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!
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![Kayaking on Towada Lake]( "Kayaking on Towada Lake")
3Kayaking on Towada Lake
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![Aoni Onsen]( "Aoni Onsen")
4Aoni Onsen
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![Aomori: Food Guide]( "Aomori: Food Guide")
5Aomori: Food Guide
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![Enjoy Chikuwa Fish Cakes in Aomori City]( "Enjoy Chikuwa Fish Cakes in Aomori City")
6Enjoy Chikuwa Fish Cakes in Aomori City
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![A Night With Oirase Gorge's Frozen Waterfall Illumination]( "A Night With Oirase Gorge's Frozen Waterfall Illumination")
7A Night With Oirase Gorge's Frozen Waterfall Illumination
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![Lake Towada Backpackers Hostel]( "Lake Towada Backpackers Hostel")
8Lake Towada Backpackers Hostel
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![Aomori Airport]( "Aomori Airport")
9Aomori Airport
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![Ashino Park Sakura Festival]( "Ashino Park Sakura Festival")
10Ashino Park Sakura Festival
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![Aomori Nebuta Festival]( "Aomori Nebuta Festival")
1Aomori Nebuta Festival
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![Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival]( "Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival")
2Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival
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![Aomori: Food Guide]( "Aomori: Food Guide")
3Aomori: Food Guide
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![Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!]( "Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!")
4Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!
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![Lake Towada's Winter Story]( "Lake Towada's Winter Story")
5Lake Towada's Winter Story
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![Misawa Air Show]( "Misawa Air Show")
6Misawa Air Show
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![Hirosaki Castle Chrysanthemum and Autumn Leaves Festival]( "Hirosaki Castle Chrysanthemum and Autumn Leaves Festival")
7Hirosaki Castle Chrysanthemum and Autumn Leaves Festival
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![Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri]( "Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri")
8Hirosaki Neputa Matsuri
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![Aoni Onsen]( "Aoni Onsen")
9Aoni Onsen
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![Visiting Oma: Japan's Northernmost Point]( "Visiting Oma: Japan's Northernmost Point")
10Visiting Oma: Japan's Northernmost Point
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Upcoming Aomori Events
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Lake Towada's Winter Story 2026
Lake Towada's Winter Story is the Tohoku region's largest winter festival, find out what goes on and how to get there.
Where to eat in Aomori
Food
Tasting Tsugaru
The roads that wind through the lush landscape of the Tsugaru Plain in Aomori Prefecture are lined with rice paddies and orderly..
Food
Aomori: Food Guide
Tom RoseveareAomori is famous for apples, but Japan-bound foodies can discover so much more thanks to a much-loved local food culture, inspired..
Food
Nokkedon Fish Market
Sandro BernardinelloAomori is well known for its high quality seafood. The Nokkedon is a small fish market where you can prepare your custom donburi..
Places to stay in Aomori
Accommodation
Aoni Onsen
Sandro BernardinelloA remote ryokan in Aomori prefecture will bring you back into the past. No electricity and no wifi; and only old oil lamps to light..
Accommodation
Osorezan
Andrew CheckleyThe Shimokita Peninsula's Osorezan is an ancient holy site, an unusual landscape and a remarkable experience.
Ryokan
Ishiba Ryokan, Hirosaki
Peter SidellIn the historic town of Hirosaki in Japan's Aomori prefecture, Ishiba Ryokan is a traditional family-run guesthouse, close to..
Latest Aomori Reports
Culture
Enjoy Chikuwa Fish Cakes in Aomori City
Veronica CarnevaleA part of Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region, Aomori is beloved for its summer Nebuta Festival, sweet-tasting apples, exceedin..
Culture
Experience the Sansha Taisai Festival!
rachel teoThe Sansha Taisai festival takes place every year, and is considered one of the main festivals of the city, taking place at the..
Activities
A Night With Oirase Gorge's Frozen Waterfall Illumi...
Caleb CelloLocated in the Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, Oirase Gorge is easily hailed as one of the most beautiful river valleys in..