Morioka Tegamikan

Morioka City Ruins Learning Center

A facility where research materials such as earthenware, stone tools, and ceramics excavated from ruins in Morioka City are stored, exhibited, and made available to the public. A site station that shows the distribution of the city's ruins, Ruins Discovery, which recreates the excavation site of Odate town ruins from the middle of the Jomon period (approximately 5,000 to 4,000 years ago) and includes restored dwellings. The site is mainly open to the public, including the ruins library, which displays approximately 800 excavated materials from the Jomon period to the medieval and early modern periods. There is also a special exhibition room (once or twice a year), an experiential learning room (earthenware/stoneware making, magatama making, etc.), a training room (lectures, citizen lectures, etc.), and a library. You can also tour the storage and exhibition room where many excavated artifacts are stored, and the data collection room with advance reservation.

Homespun Michinoku Akanekai

You can see the homespun process, which is all done by hand, from dyeing to weaving, and a series of panels introduce the manufacturing process. Homespun, which was popularized in Iwate by British missionaries at the beginning of the Meiji period, is a woolen fabric made from dyed wool and woven from hand-spun thread. While mass production is often done by machines, Michinoku Akane-kai is particular about creating original handmade products, in which each warp and weft of spun wool is woven by hand.

Lake Gosho

A dam lake created by damming the Shizukuishi River. There are sports facilities, an aquatic botanical garden, Nanbu Magareya, and other facilities along the lakeside where you can easily enjoy leisure activities. At the foot of Tsunagi Ohashi Bridge stands a statue of ``Zion'' created by Yasutake Funakoshi. In addition, there is a cosmos field along the prefectural road Morioka Uguisuku Line heading from Morioka City to Lake Gosho.The approximately 500 tsubo (500 tsubo) land that was built so that it would be close to the road has orange flowers blooming at sunset, pink and white flowers. A sensation has been planted. A perfect location where you can see Mt. Iwate, the silver-colored Lake Gosho, and Gosho Bridge in the background. Cosmos blooming period: Early August to early October