Nebuta Wa Rasse is just round the corner so we didn’t get too covered in snow. Here they display some of the floats used in the Nebuta Matsuri that Aomori is famous for, held in summer. These things are huge. It surprised me that they still don’t seem to use LED lights inside then. Surely that would make them lighter, some are up to 4 tonnes.
Still to too snowy so we just dashed back across the road to the station and had brekky at Vie de France (all sorts of tasty pastries and breads)
After brekky we did get a bus to the Contemporary Art Museum at least. Just arty paintings and stuff – but there is Aomori-Ken – a 8 metre tall statue of half a dog!!) – A little interesting but we got off there as it’s only a 5 minute walk to the jomon excavation site and 50 yen cheaper bus ride (JR Pass only covers a couple bus routes in the whole of Japan – most buses are not run by JR) BUT we saw there was so much snow (walking down the path to the museum the snow was piled along the path taller than T in some places !!) that the jomon site would have been buried probably. There might have been an indoor museum but when we did try to walk there the foot path clearing stopped a short distance up the road from the museum
Oh well – another time… snow was being blown horizontally anyways by a howling cold wind- Back to the bus holding the umbrellas sideways so we only collected snow all up our legs on the way.
Ramen lunch – miso curry milk ramen – nice little bit of curry flavour (japanese curry flavour is usually is fairly mild – unless you go to ‘coco curry ichiban ya’ and choose a hotter one from 1 to 10 (i like some good heat – growing my own superhot chillis at home – 5 or 6 at coco curry is pretty hot – i’ve made hotter food at home but it does take a while to eat it – with a bit of sweating lol)
Japan travels 