Matsukawa Valley

Hachimantai Flower Land

A flower theme garden where you can enjoy seasonal flowers in spring, summer, and autumn. The 36 different theme gardens spread over a vast plateau will delight you with fresh scenery every time you visit. In addition, fluffy alpacas will welcome you inside the park.

Ikoi Village Iwate

Located 10 minutes by car from the Nishine IC on the Tohoku Expressway, there is an accommodation facility with an observation deck, a large bathroom with a sauna, and an indoor hot spring pool, as well as an indoor artificial turf facility where you can enjoy field athletics, baseball, volleyball, tennis, and gateball. Sports facilities such as grounds and climbing boards are available. It is also a multipurpose hot spring accommodation facility equipped with a training room.

Ishikawa Takuboku’s poem monument (Osen-in Temple and surrounding area)

``My father, at the age of sixty, left home to hear from his master.'' Poem monument at Daisen-in Temple, Hiratate, Hachimantai City. Takuboku's father Kazuyoshi was from Hiratate. He became a Buddhist monk at Daisen-in Temple. There is also the grave of Takuboku's ancestors here. In addition, there is a statue in front of Hiratate Prefectural High School that says, ``I was holding my mother on my back, crying so much that I could barely take three steps,'' and in front of Hiratate Prefectural High School, there was a message that said, ``In the window of that house, I spent a spring night with Hideko and a frog.'' There is "Listen to it". ``Hideko'' refers to Hideko Hotta, who was Takuki's colleague and literary friend when he was a substitute teacher.