- 14 Day Japan Rail Pass Ordinary
- JPY 1,500 Pasmo Card
- 3 days car rental inc. English satnav
- 3 night at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo
- 2 nights at the Nikko Station Hotel Classic inc. breakfast daily
- 2 nights at the Hotel Metropolitan Sendai East
- 2 nights at the Art Hotel Hirosaki City inc. breakfast daily
- 1 nightâ at the Oirase Mori no Hotel inc. dinner and breakfast
- 3 nights at the Hotel Metropolitan Morioka New Wing
Discover the hidden gems of the northern region of Honshu, Japan on this 14-day adventure which includes 3 days of exploration by hire car.
*inclusions shown in the bullet points - package does not include airfares
Hirosaki Castle
From Sendai Station board a Hayabusa bullet train to Shin-Aomori Station. (105 mins) Change trains and board a JR Ou Line train to Hirosaki Station. (40 mins)
Your accommodation at the Art Hotel Hirosaki City is a one minute walk from the station.
Hirosaki is a small castle town in Aomori with a varied architectural heritage featuring temples, samurai residences and a castle from the Edo period, and churches, libraries and civic buildings from the Meiji Period when many foreign scholars were invited to Hirosaki.
With Aomori producing more than half of the nation’s apples, and being the birthplace of the Fuji apple, you will find apple-incorporated sweets throughout Hirosaki. A Hirosaki Pie Guide Map will direct you to 47 of the best apple pies around.
After check-in, commence your exploration of Hirosaki by boarding a Dote-Machi city sightseeing loop bus from in front of Hirosaki Station to Shiyakusho-mae bus stop. (15 mins) From here it is a two minute walk to the Otemon Gate of Hirosaki Castle (09:00 – 17:00/JPY310). Built in 1611, this castle of the Tsugaru Clan is one of the 12 remaining original castles in Japan.
Visit the Tsugaru-han Neputa Village (09:00- 17:00/JPY550) where you can watch as artists create traditional crafts, and enjoy a performance of the Tsugaru-jamisen, a three-stringed folk instrument.
A short walk from here is the Nakacho Traditional Buildings Preservation District where the traditional townscape has been maintained. Visit the Kawasaki Dyeing Plant where the traditional art of natural indigo dyeing is still carried out.
Stay: Art Hotel Hirosaki City - 1/2
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