Activities
Michinoku Matsuriya
- Availability:
- All year
Michinoku Matsuriya holds a show every night where you can feel the heat of the festival.
Storytellers tell stories of Aomori with images and invite you to the world of the festival. In the performance area surrounding the auditorium, unpredictable shows unfold, and the venue is filled with the heat of a real festival.Aomori Nebuta Festival Viewing Bus Tour
- Availability:
- Aug 2, 2025 – Aug 7The last day of 8/7 will be by sea.
Join the Aomori Nebuta Festival with bus transfers, reserved seats, and a bento. Perfect for first-time visitors with staff support.
Aomori Nebuta Sauna
- Availability:
- April 3, 2024 ~*Year-round
Inside the sauna is a nebuta designed by the Takenami Hirono Nebuta Institute, presided over by the seventh Nebuta master, Takenami Hiroo. This is a sauna where you can feel the heat of the Aomori Nebuta Festival, and your heart will dance, thanks to the auto lollies that match the excitement of the festival music.
Apple Juice Faucet
- Availability:
- All year
Apple juice flows like water from the faucet. Also recommended for a drink after a bath.
Yawatauma Lounge
- Availability:
- Jan 1, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025It will be closed after April.
Visitors can enjoy tea and alcohol while enjoying traditional crafts and viewing the garden. This is a space where you can lose track of time and relax.
Irori fireplace lounge
- Availability:
- All year
A relaxing space that blends old houses and modern architecture. Comfortable sofa space and free drinks are available depending on your stay.
Yottemare Bar
- Availability:
- All year
A bar where you can casually drink delicious local sake from Aomori on a night when you don't have enough to drink. In this bar with a nostalgic atmosphere, soak in the afterglow of the festival such as standing drinking and counter seating. You can also enjoy the unique menu that changes with the seasons.
Tsugaru Kogin-sashi experience
- Availability:
- All year
This is a set where you can make coasters for "Tsugaru Koginsashi". Enjoy it in your room, lounge or wherever you like.
Scallop Fishing
- Availability:
- All year
Aomori is famous for scallops! You can catch scallops and receive prizes for the number of scallops you catch. The event is held every day at Jawa Megu Hiroba.
Aomori Station Day Trip
- Availability:
- All yearExcluded dates are 8/1 ~ 16, 12/31~1/1.
This exclusive package for hotel guests includes a roundtrip train ticket from nearby Misawa Station to Aomori Station, as well as entry and lunch at a museum dedicated to the paper floats of the local Nebuta Matsuri festival.
Keiryu Open-top Bus Tour
- Availability:
- May 17, 2024 – Nov 4Days out of service due to maintenance: 5/22、6/5、6/19、7/5、7/31、8/28、9/11、9/26、10/10
Visit Oirase Gorge by taking the open top bus. You can enjoy the nature from the different point of view from walking.
This tour starts from Hoshino Resort Oirase Keiryu Hotel. Please refer to the instructions on how to move from Aomoriya.
Jawa Megu Apple Festival
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
In the Jawa Meguringo Festival, which is based on the theme of apples that are in season in autumn, we offer an experience where you can enjoy apples to the fullest, such as an apple monaka stall, an apple target, and an apple gachagacha. You can fully enjoy autumn in Aomori and feel energized by the apple-only program. "
Apple Monaka stall
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
If you turn a huge roulette shaped like an apple, you can get a set of red bean paste and middle apple. We have a total of 5 kinds of middle bean paste, including traditional apple jam, apple butter, and things you don't usually have a chance to eat like apple miso. It depends on roulette which kind of middle bean paste you can eat.
Apple target
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
An activity called "apple shooting" where you shoot down an apple cushion of about 11 cm in size. You can shoot down an apple cushion of about 2 m in size from an apple tree and get a prize by the number of apple cushions. You can enjoy the atmosphere of the festival even in the fall as it is a standard target of the festival.
Apple Festival
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
During the autumn season when apples are produced, the lantern corridor in the west building is decorated with more than 300 apple-shaped lanterns, allowing you to enjoy the autumn season when you move around the building. This is a recommended place to take photos with friends and family as a memento of autumn.
Giant apple lantern
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
A giant apple lantern about 2m high made of your handmade apple ring paper. It will appear in the Jawamegu Square during the fall season only.
Fresh Apple Capsule
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
If you turn the apple clatter lever, you will get a raw apple in a special capsule. The variety that can be harvested depends on the time of year, so it is fun to see which variety is included after turning it. "
Crispy Apple Breakfast
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 1
At Kominka Restaurant Nanbu Magariya, you can enjoy a seasonal breakfast full of apples that are in season in autumn, and three kinds of apple juice that you can enjoy different flavors.
Koyo Apple Carriage
- Availability:
- Sep 1, 2024 – Dec 2
A horse-drawn carriage ride around the park in autumn while listening to the guidance. An apple that is in season at this time is included as a souvenir. The apple varieties are carefully selected by the staff, and they have excellent products that are in season now. Rare and rare varieties also appear. In the latter half of October, you can enjoy the autumn leaves while riding in a carriage.
Watsudo Lucky Festival
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
Nebuta Shichifukujin, the symbol of the event, will appear and provide an experience related to good luck to make the New Year even better.
Fuku Gacha
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 30, 2025
The clatter features Aomori's unique lucky charms and traditional crafts. You can wait to see what comes out after you spin it.
DETTA Daruma Otoshi
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
A giant daruma otoshi, 2m tall, with tops flicked to keep the daruma from falling. The tops are beaten with wishes for the new year.
Watsudo Lucky Festival~Tuna Hapon Fishing Lottery~
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 30, 2025
This activity is related to Ebisuten, the god of fishing among the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. If you catch tuna, you will receive a tuna lottery.
Sake no Ade Yukimi Train
- Availability:
- Saturday and Sunday of the above period (8 trips in total) January 25, 26, February 1, 2, 8, 9, 15 and 16
In the car, you can enjoy the local sake that goes well with the tuna along with the Ade set that uses plenty of tuna while looking at the snowscape.
Floating Paper Sculptures
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
This is a typical winter feature of Aomoriya. You can soak in a hot spring with a soft texture and enjoy a fantastic view of nebuta and snow.
Nebuta Matsuri Paper Float Display
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 30, 2025
This program allows you to enjoy Nebuta in a snowy landscape. It features a zodiac nebuta that combines elements related to the zodiac and Aomori.
Making Kimigara Mini Zori
- Availability:
- Dec 4, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
As part of the "Kimigara Project," this activity involves knitting crafts with corn husks. The participants make a 10 cm Kimigara mini zori.
Winter Specialty "Stove Carriage"
- Availability:
- Dec 5, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025
Stroll through the winter scenery of the park while keeping warm with a wood-burning stove imitating the traditional craft "Hachiman horse."