Terasawa plateau

Glasses Bridge

The JR Kamaishi Line's nickname ``Meganebashi'' is an arch bridge with five semicircles connected, and its official name is ``Miyamorigawa Bridge Ryo''. The Iwate Light Railway, the predecessor of the JR Kamaishi Line, is said to have become the motif of Kenji Miyazawa's fairy tale "Night on the Galaxy Railway." Megane Bridge is illuminated in green and orange during the spring, summer, and winter tourist seasons. It invites passersby to a world of fantasy. In April 2009, it was certified as a sacred place for lovers.

Taneyama Plateau

A gentle plateau at an altitude of 900m that spans Esashi, Tono, and Sumita in Oshu City. You can see the mountains of Monomiyama (871m) and Tateishi (730m) as well as the Kitakami Plain, and the Taneyama Farm on the plateau is used for grazing cattle. There is a monument written by Kenji Miyazawa on the standing stone, ``The grass that I cut in the clouds of Taneyamagahara is sluggish, but I forgot about it.'' The clusters of Astragalus azaleas are spectacular in mid-June.

folding screen rock

After seeing Tase Ohashi Bridge, a multi-purpose man-made lake in the middle of the Kitakami Mountain Range, which has one of the best views, Otase No. 3 Bridge is about 200 meters upstream. Byobu Rock towers directly above this, halfway up Mt. Tomori. It is semi-circular with a circumference of approximately 100m and a height of 30m. It is a strange rock that looks like a folding screen opened.