Roadside station “Yamabikokan”

Gassan

It is a mountain located on the Shigemo Peninsula with an altitude of 456 meters, and from the observation deck you can see Miyako Bay below, the cliffs of the raised coast on the left and right, and the ria coastline including Jodogahama Beach and Hinodejima.

Kenji Miyazawa poem monument (Jodogahama)

In July 1919, he joined the Hanamaki Town east coast observation team and visited Kamiya and Jodogahama on the Sanriku Kisen, where he wrote a poem, ``The velvet kelp of the Uruhashi sea is spread out in the darkness of the light.'' Built in October 1996 in front of Jodogahama Rest House to commemorate Kenji's 100th birthday.

Honshoji Temple

``What will happen? The movements of the heavens and the earth, the individual behavior of human beings, etc., are nothing more than a leaf in the autumn breeze. Let it be. That's what Musashi thought.'' Yoshikawa begins with this passage. The first draft of Eiji's ``Miyamoto Musashi'' was written at Honshoji Temple in 1930. From Morioka Minami on the Tohoku Expressway to your destination via the prefectural road, take National Route 106 to Miyako. 10 minutes by car from Miyako to Honshoji Temple (near Municipal Atago Elementary School).