Recommended Tour
Recommend to combine with Oirase Gorge and Lake Towada Tour
On July 27, 2021, Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan (17 sites) were added to World Cultural Heritage List. Eight of those sites are located in Aomori Prefecture. If you want to know about Jomon, read here.
This tour includes two of the world heritage sites, Komakino Stone Circle and Sannai Maruyama Site.
Learning Life and Heart of Jomon People
Spots to visit: Komakino Stone Circle, Sannai Maruyama Site, and Uto Shrine (all located in Aomori City)
09:00
Meet at JR Aomori Station
09:30 – 11:00
Komakino Stone Circle
Komakino is located on the hillside in the outskirt of Aomori City. A large-scale stone circle with complex arrangement of flat stones is considered to be from the late Jomon period of approximately 2,000 B.C. First, you can visit the exhibition room to see the artifacts excavated in Komakino, and then visit the stone circle.
11:10 – 12:30
Hayashi Farm
In Autumn, you can try picking chestnuts and eat the cooked ones in the farm. Chestnut trees were important for Jomon people. It has been proven that Jomon people planted chestnut trees around their settlement. The nuts could be their food as well as building material.
In Hayashi Farm, cassis or blackcurrants can be picked in summer in stead of chestnuts.
13:00 – 15:40
Sannai Maruyama Site
Sannai Maruyama Site is Japan’s largest Jomon settlement from the middle Jomon Period of approximately 3,900 and 2,200 years B.C.
Lunch at the restaurant in the Sannai Maruyama Site. After lunch, we walk together in the reconstructed Jomon settlement for about 50 minutes seeing reconstructed pit dwellings, pillar supported buildings, some of the preserved excavation areas, and then visit the museum to see important artifacts unearthed in Sannai Maruyama Site. At the end, at their workshop, you can make your own pendant by scraping a piece of stone.
