Tsugaru (津軽郡,Tsugaru-gun) was adistrict located in the oldprovince of Mutsu,Japan (now in currentAomori Prefecture). The district once had a land in southernHokkaido but in 1878, the district dissolved by splitting up into 5 districts.
As theTsugaru Domain, the area was considered ade facto province in its own right, and even todayJapan Rail and other local railroad stations prefixTsugaru- to their names instead ofMutsu- as in stations in the rest of Aomori Prefecture.
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