Aomori
Aomori Full-Day Private Trip with Government-Licensed Guide
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Rated 4.5 Stars, based on 30 Reviews.
This value-packed trip with a government-licensed and experienced multilingual tour guide is a fantastic and efficient way to explore Aomori city!
Aomori is known for its abundant nature, apple production, and its summertime Nebuta festivals – considered the best of all the summer Tohoku festivals. Beneath the surface, Aomori has a surprising number of attractions to offer, encompassing history, culture, art, and cuisine – as well as a number of seasonal highlights that will surely keep visitors wanting to return.
Let us know what you would like to experience and we will customize a six-hour tour that’s best for you!
This tour dos not go to Hirosaki.
Note*1: Please select your must-see spots from a list in the tour information to create your customized itinerary.
Port-Pick-Up: Aomori Tour with Licensed Guide and Vehicle
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This tour is designed for the travelers who visit Aomori by cruise ship. We will pick you up at Aomori Port or hotels near the port.
Aomori is known for its abundant nature, apple production, and its summertime Nebuta festivals – considered the best of all the summer Tohoku festivals. Beneath the surface, Aomori has a surprising number of attractions to offer, encompassing history, culture, art, and cuisine – as well as a number of seasonal highlights that will surely keep visitors wanting to return.
Let us know what you would like to experience and we will customize a four-hour tour that’s best for you!
*This tour does not go to Hirosaki.
Note*1: Please select your must-see spots from a list in the tour information to create your customized itinerary.
Note*2: If you wish to visit Hirosaki, please contact us for additional costs and details.
Private Shore Excursion of Aomori with Licensed Guide
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This tour takes you on a tour of three of Aomori’s most fascinating important cultural spots.
Hirosaki Castle, which has the northernmost castle tower in Japan, and the Sannai-Maruyama Ruins, a scene from an era more than 4,000 years ago. We will also take you to a facility where you can experience the Nebuta Matsuri Festival, a festival that inspires the hearts of the Japanese people.
Enjoy the delicacies of the sea and feel the charm of Aomori with all your senses.
This tour is great for the various types of groups, such as friends, families with children, couples.
Private Car Tour of Aomori Golden Route
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This tour takes you on a tour of three of Aomori’s most fascinating important cultural spots.
Hirosaki Castle, which has the northernmost castle tower in Japan, and the Sannai-Maruyama Ruins, a scene from an era more than 4,000 years ago. We will also take you to a facility where you can experience the Nebuta Matsuri Festival, a festival that inspires the hearts of the Japanese people.
Enjoy the delicacies of the sea and feel the charm of Aomori with all your senses.
This tour is great for the various types of groups, such as friends, families with children, couples.
A National Licensed Guide will guide you in a private car that does not require any permission under the Road Transport Act.
Aomori Private Customizable 6-Hour Tour
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 2 Reviews.
This private and customizable tour for Aomori city (in Aomori Prefecture) is perfect for guests who would like to have their own itinerary planned based on their interests and preferences, allowing guests to experience the city at their own pace.
Discover 3-4 attractions in Aomori at your own pace on this fully customizable 6-hour part day private tour with an English-speaking (or other language) tour guide. Create a dream tour that’s perfect for your interests and preferences.
After booking, you’ll receive a form with varied themes, allowing easy selection based on your interests. Whether it’s culture, history, cuisine, nature, or special events, you can highlight your preferences and must-see spots, streamlining our planning process.
Aomori Highlights Private Full Day Tour
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This is a 6-hour private tour of sightseeing spots in Aomori city. A guide will greet you with your private car at Aomori Port and take you to Aomori city with the same car to see the highlights of Aomori city, Sannai Maruyama Ruins, the Aomori Museum of Art. Aomori City is surrounded by beautiful nature such as Hakkoda Mountain Federation and Mutsu Bay. It is blessed with abundant edible resources such as seafood and fruits, and it is a town that has many historical and cultural attractions such as Japan’s famous Nebuta and Neputa festivals and traditional arts. In this tour, you will visit the ruins where ancient people lived, and museums and tourist facilities where you can experience Aomori’s art and culture. Recommended for guests coming to Aomori Port on a cruise ship such as Celebrity Millennium and Diamond Princess.
Along with you, we can make arrangements of this tour for your friends from cruise as well.
1 Hour Private Photoshoot in Aomori
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Holiday, a Japanese information service used by approximately 4 million people per month, offers a photography program that guides visitors to some of Japan’s most popular and special Aomori destinations.
The program is staffed by highly qualified photographers who can work with your travel schedule to capture natural compositions and identify photo spots.
Because this experience is private, you will be photographed at your own pace. Enjoy the atmosphere as if you were with a friend, and enjoy the conversation while you shoot! We can arrange a photographer who lives in Aomori , so we can introduce you to local areas you may not know.
Let us capture your happy time in Aomori in photos.
Aomori Private Customizable Full Day Tour
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This private and customizable tour for Aomori city (in Aomori Prefecture) is perfect for guests who would like to have their own itinerary planned based on their interests and preferences, allowing guests to experience the city at their own pace.
Discover 4-5 attractions in Aomori at your own pace on this fully customizable 8-hour full day private tour with an English-speaking (or other language) tour guide. Create a dream tour that’s perfect for your interests and preferences.
After booking, you’ll receive a form with varied themes, allowing easy selection based on your interests. Whether it’s culture, history, cuisine, nature, or special events, you can highlight your preferences and must-see spots, streamlining our planning process.you.
Aomori Full-Day Private Tour with Licensed Guide
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You can pick up 4 to 5 spots after you apply this tour with a guide.
This tour includes the world cultural heritage site, Jomon, Sannai Maruyama site, please don’t miss it.
You can enjoy full day tour with government licensed tour guide.
This tour includes most of popular sight-seeing spots in Aomori city.
Aomori city has lots of attractive spot such as art, history, religious buildings, festival museum, and local foods.
You may learn all of Aomori city’s lovely spots by this tour.
Immerse yourself into the northern prefecture of Honshu Island Aomori.
If you have some where to visit in your mind, it is possible to customize the tour.
Ask your guide in advance to make original tour.
Recommended Transportation)
* Pax 1 to 3 : Guide’s private car can be used
* Pax more than 4 : Public transportation or hired van
Rice Paddy Art Half day tour in Aomori
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The most beautiful rice paddy art in Japan.
In Inakadate village, from the Japanese castle-like building, you can enjoy viewing rice paddy art which started 31 years ago.
There is another paddy art site about 10 minutes away by car.
In this tour, you can visit two rice paddy art site.
Near the second site, you can also visit roadside station Inakadate and buy souvenirs, vegetables and local fruits.
There is a restaurant where you can enjoy lunch if you are hungry.
Each year, we can enjoy different rice paddy arts at two sites.
In addition, you can view a stone art from the tower of the second site.
Aomori CIty light walking Tour
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 1 Reviews.
Half-day walking tour mainly along the shinmachi street.
First, we visit Nebuta Museum Warasse where you can learn local summer festival Aomori Nebuta festival.
Then we walk to Aomori Fish and Vegetable market to enjoy “Nokke Don”. (On Tuesdays close)
You can make your own sefood bowl and enjoy while walking in the market with tickets you buy at the entrance counter of the market(2,000JPY).
After that, you can enjoy souvenir shopping at a big triangle building ASPAM.
At ASPAM, you can try Japanese Sake Tasting.
You can find just baked apple pie.
There is a fantastic 3-D theater you can learn Aomori sightseeing highlights.
Private Aomori Handicraft Making Experience Tour
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Experience traditional craft making with Guide.
Tsugaru is the eastern half of Aomori Prefecture.
In this tour you can experience three kinds of local handicrafts in Tsugaru.
We visit Kuroishi Town, famous for its old Komise Street (traditional shopping arcade street), and museums nearby.
1. Making a lantern
Using the color-full Japanese paper from the local summer festival float, you can make your own design lantern by placing the paper over a prepared wooden flame.
2.Kokeshi doll or handicraft painting experience
Kokeshi doll is a local souvenir of some hot spring resorts in the northeastern region of Japan.
You can experience painting Kokeshi doll face and body.
Or you can choose other handicrafts such as tops, matryoshka or some local toys.
3.Lacquerware chopstick making
Tsugaru lacquerware is a local traditional lacquerware dating back to the samurai period.
You can experience the grinding step of chopstick making.
Make your own individual chopsticks for your daily life.
Half Day Takayama Inari Shrine Tour with Licensed Guide
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 1 Reviews.
Takayama Inari Shrine is famous for its thousands of Shinto Torii Gates.
Real insta-worthy shrine.
The view of those beautiful gates should be one of the best memories of Aomori trip.
*** You need to walk up and down 90 steps of stairs. ***
More over you can learn prehistoric Jomon period which was designated as World Heritage site at a Jomon museum.
You can also visit JR Kizukuri station which is famous for its Jomon figurine shape.
This tour may not be available from December to February because of the snow.
Half-day JOMON World Cultural Heritage Sites Tour in Aomori City
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 2 Reviews.
In this tour, we visit 2 of 17 Jomon pre-historic sites near Aomori city.(Listed on UNESCO world cultural heritage sites). In each site, you can see around the excavated sites and artifact museums. You can touch and feel the spirit of Jomon period.
Transportation:
Pax 1 to 3: I use my private car. (costs 3,000 JPY for gas and other cost)
Pax 4 to 6:
You need to hire a Taxi (Cost At least 14,050JPY) to visit Komakino Site.
1.Komakino Site
Original stone circle made in Jomon period.
Found by local high school students.
The unique stone line is famous nation wide as Komakino style stone arrangement.
Excavated artifacts are seen at a museum named Jomon-no Manabiya Komakinokan.
2.Sannai Maruyama site
This site is considered to be one of the biggest Jomon villages more than 500 people were living.
huntings and gatherings people, but some proofs of domestication such as chenut trees.
The symbol of Sannai maruyama site is a huge restored tower consists of 6 big chesnut tree logs.
Half-Day Hirosaki Castle and Samurai house Tour with Guide
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 1 Reviews.
You can enjoy local festival feeling at the Tsugaru-han Neputa Village.
Staff members play festival music and you can try to drum a japanese drum.
You can enjoy local craft making(extra charge needed.)
Gold Fish Neputa Making 1,500JPY
Tsugaru Kite Painting 1,300JPY etc.
At Hirosaki Castle, you can walk through the castle park which is famous for its cherry blossom in early to mid-April.
At the main wing, you can enter the castle tower which is one of twelve castle towers remaining from 19th century.
If we have time, you can visit a couple of samurai houses near by.
Half-Day Private Guided Japanese Hot Spring Experience
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Experience traditional Japanese hot spring bathing.
You can choose which bath you are interested in, gender mixed bathing or separated bathing.
I’ll let you know how to enjoy Japanese style hot spring, as I am a sort of hot spring master who had been to most of hot spring resorts all over Japan.
If you are not comfortable bathing nakid, you can rent a special bathing cloth.(men and women)
Private Guided Full Day Stove-Train and Deep Tsugaru Culture Tour
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Let’s enjoy deep Tsugaru sight-seeing with Stove train ride.
Stove train is operated through snow covered rice fields only from December to March.
On the stove train, local attendants help us to know deep Tsugaru area, and they even cook dried squid on the stove (Squid is sold on the train) for you.
It is also fun to dring Japanese sake with dried squid.
At Goshogawara city, you can visit local summer festival museum called Tachineputa no Yakata(museum.)
Tachineputa Museum:Gigantic floats are welcomming you at this museum.22 meters high.
Please enjoy deep Tsugaru culture.
Aomori Nebuta Festival All Inclusive Premium Night Experience
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The nighttime content and the ability to sightsee elsewhere during the day allows you to make the most of your limited and enjoyable travel time.
An experience to engage all five senses
1. Renting out Nebuta Museum, WA-RASSE to experience the world of Nebuta festival.
2. Create Nebuta merchandise to learn the Nebuta making process
3. Experience the conduction and music from festival participants through their melody and rythm.
4. Wear the offical dancer costume and become a real participant in the festivites.
5. View a painting session of a Nebuta artist, and enjoy the artistic creativity.
6. Taste a meal prepared with plenty of local ingredients and fully experience Aomori’s flavor.
Full Day World Heritage Shirakami Mountains Hiking Tour
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You can enjoy walking and trekking near the world heritage site Shirakami mountains. Cute waterfalls and refreshing beech forest walking can be enjoyed. You may witness bear scratches on the beech trees. If we are lucky, we can see some animals. To visit waterfalls, trekking path is narrow at some points. Please wear walking shoes or trekking shoes. We need to rent a helmet one for each to go and see water falls. At the Aqua Green Village Anmon, there is a restaurant where you can have lunch. You can also enjoy soft ice cream after the trekking.
Winter Bites : Taste a Local Flavor in Snow Trek
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Put on a pair of snowshoes and walk across the snow as you savor traditional ingredients that have helped locals endure the winter. During your snowy stroll, a local guide will introduce you to Aomori’s unique winter lifestyle, practical wisdom for living in harmony with the environment, and the natural blessings of the region, giving you a glimpse into how the community thrives through the season.
Through this experience, you’ll gain a deeper appreciation for the gifts of snow and forests while learning the importance of living sustainably and in harmony with nature.
Rice Paddy Art and Apple Picking Full day Private Tour
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1. Apple picking You can enjoy apple picking directly from apple trees(2 to 5 apples), The variety is according to the season(Fuji, Orin etc.)
※Until July, we take you alternative site.(Picking period is from August)
2. Tsugaruhan Neputa Village You can feel local summer festival Hirosaki Nepta festival is the oldest Neputa festival in Aomori.
The sound of Tsugaru Syamisen makes you energetic.
3. Hirosaki castle The old castle dates back to early 17th century.
There are more than 2,600 cherry trees which can be appreciated especially in mid-April.
Cherry blossoms bloom in mid-April here.
The second oldest cherry tree, 130 years old, can be seen in castle compound.
Private Tour to Big Buddha and Nebuta Museum with Licensed Guide
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A government-licensed local guide takes you to two popular sightseeing spots.
First, we visit Seiryuji temple where you can see the biggest seated Buddha image.
Second, we visit Nebuta Museum Warasse.
You can feel energetic local summer festival.
In addition, please enjoy souvenir shopping at A-Factory or ASPAM.
I can give you a ride up to 3 people in my car.
For more than 3 people, you need to hire a van taxi.(JPY 40,000 or more)
I can help you to reserve it.
Half-day Private Tour of Jomon Archaeological site and art Museum
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You can witness amazing archeological site newly listed on World Heritage.
We use local bus round trip to 2 spots or guide’s private car (costs 3,000 JPY for a group)
You can have lunch at Sannai Maruyama site or Aomori Museum of Art.
Guide is quite knowledgeable about Jomon.
Both spots have nice shop so you can purchase memorable souvenirs.
This tour is guided by government licensed English tour guide Tomio Yokouchi.
Full-Day Jomon World Heritage Site Tour in Northern Tsugaru Area
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Rated 5 Stars, based on 2 Reviews.
In this tour, you can go see 3 of 17 World Heritage Jomon Historical sites.
More over, you can feel Japanese culture by visiting Takayama-Inari shrine and Tachineputa museum.
Visiting a pottery shop is another highlight of this tour.