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Dear people of the world, please come to Aomori Prefecture as an area of sightseeing destinations in your travels around Japan. The Shirakami Mountains, a World Natural Heritage Site with beech forests created 9,000 years ago, and the Jomon sites in Hokkaido and the north-east of Japan, which were settled over 1,000 years during the Jomon period (4,500 years ago) by gathering, fishing and hunting while enjoying the blessings of nature, are valuable cultural heritage sites that tell of the life and spiritual culture of the Jomon period people, Why not go walking in the Tsugaru Peninsula, where the roots of the Japanese people and their original landscapes are still alive, and walk through the roots of the Japanese people and the forests of Japan?

Tachineputa, one of Aomori Prefecture’s representative Nebuta, is also a popular summer festival.

The Shirakami Sanchi World Heritage Site, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in December 2023, was Japan’s first World Heritage Site in 1993 and is an area of vast beech forests.

The beech forests of the Shirakami Sanchi are said to have been established some 8,000 or 9,000 years ago. The unique cultural created by the encounter between the native culture　in the precious nature and the foreign culture of the Kitamae Ship, a Japanese heritage, is a climate that cannot be imitated by any of the surrounding municipalities, including Ajigasawa.

The Tsugaru Peninsula is also home to the Tsugaru National Park, a 180-kilometre-long coastal, mountain and lake area stretching from Tonogahama-cho (formerly Hiradate-mura) in Higashitsugaru-gun to Fukaura-cho (formerly Iwasaki-mura) in Nishitsugaru-gun, which was designated as such on 31 March 1975.

The coastal area is divided into coastal erosion landscapes such as Ryubizaki, Gongenzaki and Takanozaki, and dune landscapes in the Jusanko and Byoubuzan areas.
The mountainous area includes Mount Iwaki, the highest peak in Aomori Prefecture, 1,625 metres above sea level, known as Tsugaru Fuji Shirakami Sanchi, which is registered as a World Natural Heritage Site, and the Twelve Lakes, which together with the Japan Canyon form a beautiful lake beauty with 33 lakes and marshes of various sizes.
Why not visit these natural, historical and living resources from an SDGs perspective and from an ecotourism perspective?

Why not visit these natural, historical and living resources from an SDGs perspective and from an ecotourism perspective?
Ajigasawa town, which has many World Heritage areas, is a place where you can visit from the SDGs perspective. The promotion of local development of satoyama areas by combining biodiversity forests and tourism is being promoted.

Introduction of Katsuto Nagai, who runs the NPO Shirakami Sanchi wo Mamoru Kai, Shirakami Shirakami Shirakami Nature Hitotsumori School and the Joint Association Shirakami Aroma Research Institute and Shirakami Tourism Co.