Lake Iwado

Tachibana shoe store

In addition to exhibiting the tools and manufacturing process used to make shoes on panels, you can also tour the manufacturing process and semi-finished products inside the museum. This is the only craftsman's shop in Morioka that has been consistently making shoes since before the war and can do both upper making and sole making. In the shoes that are made to fit the customer's feet, you can feel the owner's commitment to shoes and his own reliable technique.

Kenji Miyazawa poem monument (lower bridge)

In 1999, a monument commemorating Kenji Miyazawa's poem ``Chagu Chagu Umako'' was erected near the bridge below where he was lodging with his younger brother when he was in his third year at the High School of Agriculture and Forestry. There are four songs, including the following: ``Even though it's still a little while before dawn, the bottom edge of the river is still open.'' It was around this time that Kenji began to devote himself seriously to literature, and the ten years he spent in Morioka from the age of 13 to the age of 24 (the end of his high school agricultural research studentship) became the foundation for his subsequent activities.

Morioka City General Pool

A comprehensive swimming pool officially recognized by the Japan Swimming Federation, completed in May 1999.