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breakfast wasn't as chaotic as dinner but still very crowded

some interesting items at the buffet...

apple curry...different but delicious
 

hiyashi dashi chazuke with shiso pickled chinese yam

sashimi (scallop, squid and amaebi)

okra and chinese yam mixture

ume furikake

(actually you could top your rice with the sashimi or the chazuke items, the rice was super hot, so I didn’t want to put the sashimi directly on the rice, so I added the cold dashi on the rice instead)

cinnamon apple jam with milk bread

different styles of embroidery

fill a sachet with Hiba, a wood native to Japan that has hinokitol, a rare compound only found in Aomori Hiba 

It apparently keeps away the bugs 

loved the Hiba apple container that was in our room too

Nebuta bags at Aomoriya

Aomori kelp and fish are used in their dashi packs

Hotate (scallops) that were raised in Mutsu, are used in these crunchy snacks

Semi dried apples, in different varieties

choco Q suke we tried this back in 2024, nice to reconnect with it in Aomori

Hachinohe Eboshi are festive headdress worn during the Hachinohe Emburi, a winter festival in February. 

This festival is to dance and pray for a bountiful harvest

huge! float for the Hachinohe Sansha Taisai, a festival held from July 31 to August 4

3 shrines, 27 floats and 3 mikoshi parade through the streets of Hachinohe

Yawata Uma are given at celebrations such as weddings

it was definitely cooler in Iwate and Aomori

the transportation is kind of sparse but at least we were able to see and do the things we intended to

I hope you enjoyed this adventure as much as we did