Image:HirosakiCastle.JPG|Hirosaki Castle ''Tenshu'', ICP<ref name="Bunka9">{{cite web |url=https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/187893|title=弘前城 天守 |trans-title=Hirosaki-ji Tenshu |language=ja |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref>
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== Festival ==
Hirosaki city holds an annual winter four-day ''Hirosaki Castle [[Snow lantern|Snow Lantern]] Festival''. The festival had attracted 310,000 visitors in 1999 and included 165 standing snow lanterns and 300 mini snow caves.<ref name="Rausch2001">{{cite book|author=Anthony Rausch|title=A Year With the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori Japan, 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_5_YRphC90C&pg=PA30|access-date=18 February 2013|date=1 June 2001|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-2050-5|pages=30–31}}</ref> Similar [[Kamakura (snow dome)|kamakura snow caves]] are found in many parts of northern Japan.
