Aomori Hirosaki Highlights Half Day Private Tour with Lunch

Enjoy a buffet featuring a wide variety of international cuisine including Mediterranean and Asian, as well as local dishes of Aomori. Please note that requests for vegetarian meals, allergy-friendly meals, gluten-free meals, or requests to remove or change ingredients due to personal preferences are not accepted. Allergen icons are displayed.

You can here experience the Hirosaki Neputa Festival, an Intangible Folk Cultural Asset of Japan, all year round. Enjoy seeing not only the impressive Neputa festival floats, but also Tsugaru's traditional crafts and a garden with Oishi Bugaku-ryu style of landscaping that is a Registered Monument of Japan.

Located in Hirosaki Park, Hirosaki Castle features Japan's northernmost extant main keep, and is a designated important cultural property. With approximately 2,600 cherry trees of 52 varieties, Hirosaki Park is considered one of Japan's top 3 cherry blossom spots, but it also flaunts beautiful colors in autumn with about a thousand maple trees and the fall foliage of the cherry trees. In winter, look forward to scenery unlike any other as the roofs of the castle, normally of a greenish blue hue, are draped in snow. The castle tower cannot be entered from November 24, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

Opened in 1870, To-o Gijuku was the first private school in the prefecture based on Keikokan, a clan school of the Hirosaki domain. This Western-style building established in 1900 was built as a residence for international instructors invited to To-o Gijuku, and has been designated as a prefectural treasure.

This facility was built to commemorate victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1906, and was used as a city library until 1931. While the building is based on the Renaissance style, it incorporates Japanese styles throughout. Designated as a prefectural treasure, the Western-style building is representative of the Meiji period (1868-1912), and features the originality and ingenuity of Horie Sakichi, a master builder from Hirosaki.