Kakitsubata community on the mountain shore

Tohoku Agricultural Research Center Nanohana Exhibition

It is open to the public around mid-May (limited opening days) when the rape blossoms (rapeseed rape), which are grown for green manure and to prevent continuous cropping damage in the test field, are in full bloom.

Seiyoin

This is the temple where Kenji Miyazawa stayed as a boarding house during his time at Morioka Junior High School when he was ordered to leave the dormitory during the New Building Supervision and Elimination Movement. In addition, there is Mitsuishi Shrine in the back, where the legend of the origin of the name "Iwate" remains.

Ishikawa Takuboku poem monument (Shimobashi Junior High School playground)

A monument to Takuboku's poems in the schoolyard of Takuboku's alma mater, Morioka High School (currently Shimohashi Junior High School). Kyosuke Kindaichi, who was Takuboku's second-year senior and had a close friendship with him from his childhood until his later years, wrote Takuboku's song in later years, and it was erected in the fall of 1972 by former staff volunteers. “Once upon a time, I threw a ball on the roof of an elementary school, and how it turned out.”