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Historic Sites
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 great with cherry blossoms
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 great in snow
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Tsuruga-jo Castle
Tsuruga-jo castle, a white castle that stands tall at the near center of Aizu Wakamatsu, serves as the city's main tourist landmark.
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Mt. Iimori
Iimoriyama is a tall hill to the northeast of Aizu Wakamatsu’s central area. It is famous for the tragedy of the young samurai boys in the Boshin Civil War.
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Oyakuen Garden
Oyakuen is a prime example of a landscaped garden typically maintained by a daimyo lord in feudal Japan. The quiet garden and pond has a sense of peace.
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Gravesite of the Aizu clan leaders
The tombs of Aizu Matsudaira daimyo lords who ruled Aizu in the Edo period. The site is very quiet, and is the largest and most impressive of daimyo burying grounds in all of Japan.
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Former Takizawa Honjin
(Daimyo House)
Originally built as a resting house for clan leaders, it was later used as the headquarters of the Aizu clan in the Boshin War. Graphic sword marks and bullet marks still can be seen.
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Old Samurai Residence
The residential complex of a top-ranking Aizu retainer in the Edo period is featured at this museum park.
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Nisshinkan
The Nisshinkan was a school for young sons of Aizu samurai, where they learnt reading, wrighting, martial arts, gunnery and so on. You can see and experience the context of the old samurai school.
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