Early am virtuoso tour. Later virtuoso gathering. All courtesy of our fine and soon to be retired guide.

UNESCO world heritage site, art museum, fine lunch, lantern museum.

Looks like a real city especially compared to the rural area we just came from which was apparently full of bears. According to Tom (see his comment of yesterday).

World heritage open air site and archaeological site of Jamon people from about 3000 BCE. Excavations, buildings wonderful visit. Would’ve been good to have more time to look at the museum.

https://kitano-jomon.jp/en/about_jomon_en/

Next stop the Aomori Museum of Art. Modern art big Chagall pieces for Ballet Theatre staging of Areko

Architecture and space of the museum very strange. Two large exhibition halls.

Next: lunch.

Lunch was at a wedding chapel or hall.

All of the tables had an odd number of chairs. Some had five chairs some seven etc.. No idea what to do when the party is six or eight. I assume that for a party of six they would sit you at the table with seven chairs??

Lantern Museum contains floats from the Aomori Lantern Festival which occurs in August. Floats are constructed of Japanese paper squares, wood supports and are painted and lit.

Aomori is well known for its apples. This is the Apple factory selling everything Apple. The edible type this time