Dazai Osamu Memorial Museum (Aomori)

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Dazai Osamu Memorial Museum, referred to as 'Shayōkan', is the Dazai Osamu's birthplace, located in Goshogawara-city, Aomori.
It's a mansion with 11 rooms on the 1st floor, 8 rooms on the 2nd floor, storehouses and gardens, built by his father, a wealthy landowner during Meiji period.

It had been an inn named 'Shayōkan' for 46 years until 1996.

'Doma', a dirt floor, and 'Zashiki', a tatami room

Zashiki, tatami rooms

Garden with a pond

The garden as seen from 2nd floor

Ashino-Koen station of the Tsugaru Railway near the museum.  Ashino-Koen is a park where Dazai Osamu often played in his childhood.

Its station has been a tourist spot because of coming out in the Dazai Osamu's novel 'Tsugaru'.

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