Re-visiting Aomori/Carlos Pueblo
I have been
to Aomori once with very good impression. The city is located on the
north of
Japanese Honshu Island famous of apple brand. I have attempted several
times to
take a regular train to visit the coastal line of the Sea of Japan, Gonosen,
is also a
famous hit song by Mizumori Kaori. Each time I try to get a reservation and
I fail
because it is very hard to get one and takes more than a day to be back from
Aomori to
Akita. We started our Shinkansen route from Nagano southeastward to
Omiya Station
and northward to Aomori, I saw the difference of cherry blooming
on the way
from gradually peaking near Tokyo to not yet after Sendai, Tohoku area
due to
climate change and difference peak schedule.
Aomori is
still lovely. We stayed at an hotel of the same company yet closer to the
station. The
old police station, Koban where I reported my loosing glove during a
snowing
storm, was removed. The new one is located across the street of the station.
I thought
that I could ask that young English speaking lady officer about her visit of
Taiwan. I
took Amy to see the huge bay front park where the cruise ships disembark.
I couldn’t
get my reservation for a cruise from Yokohama to Seattle in May; therefore,
we took this
3 weeks land trip in Japan, yet we did visit most of the ports the ship
would visit
in Japan, Shizuoka, Aomori, Hakodate, and Sapporo.
We plan to
take Shinkansen across the Tsugaru Straight to Hokkaido on the next morning
instead of
the abandoned method of ferry trip of Hakkoda Maru which is a museum now
on the Bay.
Beside the ship, there is a monument of the hit song, Tsugaru Kaikyo
Fuyugeshiki,
means the winter scenery of the Tsugaru Straight, by Ishikawa Sayuri, her
1st
hit in 1972. When you stand in front of the monument, the her recorded singing
would
be out in
microphone with the poem engraving on an epitaph. I even visit her home town
at Kumamoto.
We walked
along the well planned streets and visited an underground fish market and
bought
some dry
seaweed package as present to our friends at home. I bought a small box of tuna
sashimi for
my dinner. I had had enough raw fish dinner every dinner in Japan and still
loved
it.
On our way
to Hakodate, Amy found a brochure of Hirosaki Castle at Hirosaki City, an old
seat of Edo
era Han about 47,000 koku up to 100,000 koku stipend. Their heirs donated the
property to
the city and became a park. It is famous for 1,000 plus cherry trees and the
foliage in
the fall. Hirosaki is also a station along that about 90 miles train ride of Gonosen.
I shall
visit it again very soon.
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