Takashi Hara Memorial Hall

Iwate Bank Red Brick Building

It opened as Iwate Bank Red Brick Building on Sunday, July 17, 2016. Built to the design of Kingo Tatsuno and Manji Kasai Architects, the former Morioka Bank is built of red brick with a green dome, and its exterior has a strict Renaissance-style outline. Located in the center of the city, it combines with the Nakatsu River and Nakano Bridge to form Morioka's representative landscape. A nationally designated important cultural property built in 1909.

Morioka City Ancestor Memorial Hall

A memorial museum that introduces the predecessors connected to Morioka who were active after the Meiji period. It was built in 1988 as a commemorative facility to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city's incorporation. On the first floor there are memorial rooms for Nitobe Inazo, Yonai Mitsumasa, and Kindaichi Kyosuke, and on the second floor there is a comprehensive exhibition of 127 of their predecessors.

Morioka Machiya Story Museum

　The sake brewery of the "Former Iwategawa Nataya-cho Factory", where sake was brewed until 2006, was renovated and opened as "Morioka Machiya Monogatari-kan". 　Of the four buildings, "Hamato's Sake Brewery" offers visitors a look at the history of the brewery and a video recording of the Showa period. In the "Gashiya" (the space under the eaves between the warehouses), visitors can view exhibits of valuable materials from the old Iwate River, and in the "Main House" there is a general information desk and community space where sightseeing information, art exhibitions, various lectures, and other events are held. 　The Taisho-gura, a sake brewery built in the Taisho era, has a "Toki-no Shotengai" on the first floor that sells Morioka's specialties and crafts, gelato, and a coffee shop, while the "Toki-no Exhibition Room" on the second floor is a gallery that regularly holds special exhibitions of art works from Morioka's collection.