The current terminus of the mainline Tōhoku Shinkansen (though this is set to change in December, 2010), Hachinohe is now a somewhat humdrum industrial city on the eastern edge of Aomori Prefecture. Once a castle town under the Nanbu Clan, it has seen a recent excavation and reconstruction of the even older Ne-jō, a castle dating to the end of the Kamakura Period.
Outer grounds of Ne-jō historical site
Scale model of the old castle
Restored food storage huts
Annex area and smithy beyond, Ne-jō
Recreated ceremony for clan ancestors
Main palace of Ne-jō
Taishō Era building converted to a cafe
Main shopping street in Hachinohe
Stone marker on the old grounds of Hachinohe-jō
Morioka-bound Aoimori Tetsudō train at the station