02209 ／ つがるし
Aomori PrefectureA town where torii pile up in layers.
Senbon Torii, Takayama Inari01 ／ Tagoyano Shell Mound
The city describes Tagoyano Shell Mound as a settlement site with a shell mound, rare on the Sea of Japan side, where bracelets of Glycymeris (benkei-gai) shell were made. The prefecture says the early-to-middle Jomon mound is mainly brackish-water corbicula, and that shell bracelets were among the finds.
02 ／ Apple trees
The prefectural Natural Monument Apple Trees are three trees of two varieties: two of one and one of the other. In April 1878 the previous head of the family got saplings from a Hirosaki pioneer of the prefecture's apples and increased them by grafting. The prefecture records that the trees have nicknames.
03 ／ Byobuyama
The Tohoku Regional Forest Office calls Byobuyama a coastal dune zone on the west side of the Tsugaru Peninsula, with over 320 years of windbreak and sand-control forest planting since the domain era. The city says Bense Wetland is about 20 m above sea level and about 23 hectares, and was named one of Japan's Top 100 Natural Sites in 1983.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June 2014)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The city gives access to City Hall as a 15-minute walk from Kizukuri Station on the JR Gono Line (updated 9 February 2023). The city's tourist information office is inside the station building (updated 2 September 2025).
−7.1% since 2015
40,091 → 30,934
213.57km² of it habitable
2024
2.9 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
3.9 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
28.3km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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