Beautiful park and observatory on a small mountian top on the coast. The way was wrapped up with the usual local meal. This was a hole in the wall restaurant in Shiriki.

Beautiful scenic spot on the northwest coast line of Aomori.

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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