Koma Shokudo

White Dragon

It's been about 60 years since it opened, and as the original Jaja noodles restaurant, there's always a line of customers. It is served with stir-fried meat miso, cucumber, ginger, and green onions on top of hot boiled noodles, and is eaten by adding garlic, vinegar, and chili oil to taste. It is common to mix eggs and make chitan soup after a meal. ● Kawatoku store TEL: 019-651-1111 (Main) ● Fezan store TEL: 019-624-2247

Kakitsubata community on the mountain shore

Kakitsubata is also the flower of Morioka City. This colony is located in Taihei, a mountain bank about 4 km northeast of the city, along National Route 455, which connects the city and Iwaizumi. During the flowering season, refreshing blue-purple flowers bloom all over the 931-square-meter grounds, and they stand out against the yellow-green leaves, making for a spectacular sight. There is also an arbor and parking space on the premises, making it a relaxing spot for citizens. It is a prefecture-designated natural monument, and conservation efforts are being actively carried out. Flowering/early June to mid-June

Kenji Miyazawa poem monument (inside Morioka High School)

``To all the students, don't you feel the clear, clean wind blowing from this dashing realm of your future?'' The Morioka Daiichi High School where this monument stands is Morioka Junior High School, where Kenji once studied. Taking a break from the stuffy old family where he was born and raised, living in a dormitory, and hanging out with friends of his own generation brought Kenji a great sense of freedom. While attending school, I walked in the nearby mountains and became familiar with many books. Takuboku Ishikawa is ten years my senior at Morioka Junior High School.