Morioka Tenmangu Shrine

Morioka Jajaan (Morioka City)

Freshly boiled hot noodles such as flat Ikishimen noodles or udon noodles, Add chopped cucumbers, green onions, secret meat miso paste, vinegar, chili oil, garlic, and added ginger to your liking. You can eat it by mixing it well or by mixing it little by little, and each person will have a different taste depending on the amount of seasoning they add, making Jajamen with their own taste. And the final treat for Jajamen fans is ``Chitan (Chitantan)''. Once you've finished eating most of the noodles, crack a raw egg onto a plate, pour the boiling water over it, add green onions and meat miso, and the delicious ``Chitan'' is completed.

Nitobe Inazo’s birthplace (bronze statue)

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Inazo Nitobe, a cosmopolitan man born in his hometown who ``hopefully becomes a bridge over the Pacific Ocean'', Morioka City built this building on his birthplace in Shimonohashi Town with donations from citizens. Author Fumio Asakura). During the Pacific War, its achievements were largely ignored, and its legacy was only remembered by a few people, but after the war, its role was properly reviewed and reevaluated on both sides of the Pacific.

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.