thumb|Aomori City Hall
thumb|Hakkoda Ropeway
, officially Aomori City (, ), is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 264,945 in 136,781 households, and a population density of 321 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of . Aomori is one of Japan's 62 core cities and the core of the Aomori metropolitan area.
Etymology
The Hirosaki Domain first established a port settlement with the name in 1624. The name is composed of the components ,