This was part of my Golden Week vacation 2012. After visiting Matsumae Castle, I enjoyed the great night view from Mt. Hakodate. A day later I decided to visit Goryokaku Fort. Visited: May 7th 2012 Goryokaku Tower is the first...
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Matsumae Castle in Hokkaido
After leaving Aomori Prefecture I entered Hokkaido and thus left the Tohoku Region for a few days. Hokkaido is geographically the largest prefecture in Japan! I stayed only at the Western tip which was still very close to Tohoku...
Hirosaki Neputa Village
After visiting Aomori City in the morning and then the Hirosaki Castle Park in the early afternoon my last stop of the day was the Hirosaki Neputa Village aka Tsugaru-han Neputa Village (津軽藩ねぷた村) which is right next to the...
Hirosaki Castle Park
After visiting Aomori City in the morning, I went to Hirosaki City to visit the Hirosaki Castle Park for the rest of the day. And so my Tohoku tour continued. Visited: May 4th 2012 On the left photo you see the main reason for my...
Do Japanese People Really Keep Staring at Foreigners?
It’s time for another post in the blog series “A German Alien in Japan“. There are so many things I want to share with you, but I should have started writing about them right after I came to Japan. Why? Because...
Aomori City
After getting soaked on the Shimokita Peninsula I was off to Aomori City where I only intended to stay one night in a hotel. In the morning I wanted to move on to Hirosaki, but the weather was just as bad as the day before when...
Driving in Japan
I’ve lived in Japan for several years. However, my first 4 years I spent in trains or on my bicycle. In my 5th year I finally got a Japanese driver’s license and since then I’ve been driving in Japan a lot...
Osorezan: Mt. Osore (Shimokita Peninsula)
After visiting Ne Castle in Hachinohe in the early morning I rushed to my train to get to the Shimokita Peninsula, having the typhoon right behind me. Unfortunately the trains weren’t running anymore at that time and buses...
Ne Castle in Hachinohe
After enjoying the Senshu Park in Akita City and the former castle and samurai town Kakunodate I left Akita Prefecture to explore Aomori Prefecture. I started extremely early in the morning, because I had a tight schedule for the...