Aomori - dinner -

Aomori - Nebuta -

Nebuta festival takes place in Aomori City from August 2nd to 7th every year. When we arrived in Aomori City, it was the end of Nebuta festival. So We went to see the huge paper lanterns. It takes almost a year to create the Nebuta. It's about 5 meters tall! Moreover it's a wooden frame wrapped with Japanese paper.

In fact, I've been to Nebuta festival 10 years ago.

Aomori - the Sannai-Maruyama site -

Aomori - hot spring -

We went to Asamushi hot spring (浅虫温泉). I enjoyed a relaxing soak in the hot spring.

Aomori - lunch -

My friend took me eating place. There is famous for seafood. There were a lot of autographs on the wall. 

Aomori - return road -

I stopped at a small store on return road.

Aomori - Aoike -

There are several ponds in a corner of Shirakami mountain range. One of them has blue water. The pound is Aoike(青池). The second picture is a normal pond. Aoike was a mysterious pond.

Aomori - Shirakami mountain range -

I rented a car at Aomori airport and I went to Shirakami mountain range. It took about 2 hours from Aomori airport to Shirakami mountain range. The way has a beautiful road along the coast so I looked at the beautiful scenery.

Aomori (青森)

I went to Aomori prefecture to meet my friend in the university and to see Shirakami mountain range(白神山地) , a World Heritage site. It took about 90 minutes to get to Aomori from Tokyo by air.

My friend lived and worked in Tokyo until last year. But he came back to his hometown to take over his father's company.