Where Aomori prefecture’s administrative system’s main government building is located, Aomori. Due to the opening of all Tohoku shinkansens, Aomori is one of the most paid attention cities. Every summer there is a Nebuta festival that is held with Aomori city in the center, and a lot of people from outside of the prefecture come to visit.

This time, we will be introducing the 2 big cultural facilities in Aomori city, and the Aomori prefecture museum, and the Sannaimaruyama ruins.

The Aomori prefecture museum is, searches for the prefecture’s artists that originates their art creation energy from the Sannaimaruyama ruins that were deposited in the Jomon period; and is sending out Aomori prefecture’s artistic climate out into the world.

The white museum building was built from the idea of “Sannaimaruyama ruins” excavation areas.

Like the excavation site7s trench, the ground is geometrically cut in. On top of that it is a clump of bricks covered in white paint.

Aomori prefecture art museum’s collection started its collecting in 1993, is collected under the idea of “The art collection that has close adherence to the land and its climate, has fostered a rich sensitivity, and art materials that can be contributed to future creations”.

The collection that represents Aomori prefecture art museum stores 3 of the 4 ballet background paintings by Marc Chagall. Each work is 9 meters in length, and 15 meters in width. The humongous screen surges out Chagall’s passion.

Others there are substantial collections, Munakata Shikou, Nara Yoshitomo, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Rembrandt, Redon, and Picasso owned.

Along with walking for about 5 minutes there are the, Sannaimaruyama ruins.

Sannaimaruyama ruins are known to be from the Jomon period (5500~4000), the biggest ruins in the country.

In the tracks of the ruins, there are groups of housing, warehouses, the symbolic 3 story Horitate pillared buildings replicates. There are museums as well.

In the Sannaimaruyama ruins, the most focused is the “6 pillared building”. The building size of the open space between the pillars, the width, and the depth, all are unified into 4.2 meters, 2 meters, and 2 meters.

Here we end our trip with at the Sannaimaruyama ruins. In Akita/Aomori, most of the facilities are in business as usual however, people there were saying that “those visiting have decreased about half”. In Akita or Aomori there is no fear of the nuclear radiation at all.

Originally the famous place where it gets crowded with people is now the best chances to site see quietly; for the revival of Tohoku, how about taking a trip to Tohoku.