Location
Island : Honshu
Region : Tohoku
Prefecture : Aomori
City : Hirosaki
Neputa Mura
Neputa Mura is a museum dedicated to the lantern festival (Neputa Matsuri), but also to other specialties in Hirosaki. You will see big tanks with figurines and mythical scenes on the top, reproduced on huge paper fans and enlightened by lanterns. Besides this museum, this traditional art is praticed every year at the beggining of August in Hirosaki’s streets for the Neputa Matsuri.
Access
From Hirosaki Station
⇒ Take the Tamenobu bus line (outbound) until the Tsugaru-han Neputa-mura stop.
or
⇒ Take the Dotemachi Loop bus line until the Bunka center-mae stop, then walk 500 meters to the north.
Closest bus stops
Tamenobu Bus (outbound)
Tsugaru-han Neputa-Mura stop- Chuo koko-mae stop
Tamenobu Bus (inbound)
- Tsugaru-han Neputa-Mura stop
- Chuo koko-mae stop
Dotemachi Loop Bus
- Bunka Center-mae stop