So I was relaxing at home and looked out of the window and noticed the day was too beautiful to just play Xbox all day and watch tv series and movies. So I hit up my google maps saved places, scrolled to the “want to go places” and sent out on my adventure. The following […]

“Goshogawara Tachineputa” is one of the biggest summer festivals in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The characters displayed on the floats are huge lanterns.  Back in the early 1900s, Neputa was a symbol for power and wealth for people like farmers, land owners and merchants. It mostly meant “rich merchants”, especially in Goshogawara. The Nunokas were known […]

“>-full” src=”http://voyagertree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180507_153610443503351.jpg” alt=”” width=”3000″ height=”2250″ /> The garden has several distinct features. Directly in front of the shoin-style main house building, two large stepping stones are arranged with a gap so large in between them that it is almost impossible to cross without hopping. Once across the stepping stones, there is a “dry pond” (water […]

“>-full” src=”http://voyagertree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180507_124008672894134.jpg” alt=”” width=”3000″ height=”2250″ /> Many of the structures of Iwakiyama Shrine date from the early Edo period, and were built in 1694 under the sponsorship of the Tsugaru clan of Hirosaki Domain. The two-story main gate (Ryōmon) was built in 1628. The Honden, Heiden, Oku-no-mon and Ryōmon are built in the yosegi-zukuri style […]

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Hirosaki Castle (弘前城 Hirosaki-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Tsugaru clan, a 47,000 koku tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Hirosaki Domain, Mutsu Province, in what is now central Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It was also referred to as Takaoka Castle (鷹岡城 or 高岡城 Takaoka-jō). (Ref: […]

Hachinohe Portal Museum hacchi opened in 2011 as a new center of exchange and creation to revitalize Hachinohe City as a whole, including it’s downtown areas, by generating urban attractions while cherishing traditional local resources. “>1137 size-full” src=”http://voyagertree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180502_1017272137753606.jpg” alt=”” width=”3000″ height=”2250″ /> Held in downtown Hachinohe each year for five days from July 31st to […]