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Aomori

1 quiet, car-free day trip in Aomori — no rental car needed.

The white three-storey keep of Hirosaki Castle on its stone base, seen from a red-railed bridge with green and reddening foliage around it under a clear sky. — © Yoshio Kohara / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0

The inner moat of Hirosaki Castle in early summer — © 掬茶 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Hirosaki: A Quiet Day from the Castle Park to the Station Market

At the top of Honshu, Aomori is a prefecture most travellers cross rather than stay in.

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