Manji Kasai

Gando Lake Family Travel Village

A family travel village was opened in June 1981 on the north side of Lake Iwado, said to be the most beautiful man-made lake in Japan, so that groups centered on families could easily enjoy nature. The travel village has a ``campground'', ``festival plaza'', ``children's plaza'', ``picnic plaza'', ``promenade'', and ``tennis court'', and in 2000, an auto campsite complete with sanitary house was opened. Additionally, the annual Iwado Lake Festival is held in late September, where you can enjoy local Yabukawa soba and tankaku beef.

Ishikawa Takuboku Memorial Museum

The museum was opened in 1970 to honor Takuboku, collect materials, preserve them, and provide information.The current building was constructed in 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Takuboku's birth. The white Western-style building is a reproduction of the ideal "home" that Takuboku described in his poem "House." Following the footsteps of Takuboku, who started in his hometown of Shibumin and then moved to Morioka, Hokkaido, and Tokyo, many personal belongings and related materials such as Takuboku's handwritten notes, letters, photographs, and clothing are on display. *Photography is prohibited

Takashi Hara

Born in Morioka City. A politician who created the basis of party politics. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the care of Kaoru Inoue, became Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs at the age of 40, and became Minister to Korea at the age of 42. He later founded the Rikken Seiyukai with Hirobumi Ito and others, and became the president of the Seiyukai in 1919. In 1919, he became the 19th Prime Minister. He was Japan's first prime minister without a title, and as a result, the clan government since the Meiji era was transformed into party politics, and Hara was called ``commoner prime minister.'' On November 4, 1920, he was killed by a young man's knife at Tokyo Station.