Tsugaru Peninsula
History
In the Edo period, the peninsula was part of the Hirosaki Domain and was ruled by the Tsugaru clan. Traditionally one of the poorest and remotest areas of Japan, Tsugaru is best known as the birthplace of writer Osamu Dazai, who wrote the mordant travelogue Tsugaru about his travels around the peninsula, and for the Tsugaru-jamisen, a distinctive local version of the Japanese string instrument shamisen. After the defeat of Aizu during the Boshin War, many of the last samurai were sent to prisoner-of-war camps on the Tsugaru Peninsula.
Transportation
Rail
- Hokkaido Shinkansen, Kaikyō Line, linked to Hokkaidō via the Seikan Tunnel
- Tsugaru Line
- Tsugaru Railway
As with Aizu in Fukushima Prefecture, JR East treats Tsugaru as a separate province from Mutsu, and stations in the area are marked "Tsugaru-" before their names.
Highways
External links
- Tsugaru Peninsula travel guide from Wikivoyage
References
- ^ "津軽半島". kotobank.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ Schattschneider, Ellen (2003). Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain. Duke University Press. pp. 22–25. ISBN 0822330628.
40°57′35″N 140°28′59″E / 40.95972°N 140.48306°E