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7 long-established cafes in Morioka City! Let's spend time surrounded by the Showa era scent [Iwate Prefecture]

Morioka City was featured in an article by the New York Times on "52 Towns to Visit in 2023" as a town with many coffee shops with great atmospheres. In the city, modern "cafes"...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.06.30

[Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture] 3 recommended sake restaurants where you can enjoy the locally loved Morioka!

The area where sake shops in Morioka mainly gathers around Odori and Cinema Street, the city's most busy downtown area, Hachimancho, the Hachiman-cho, the mote-mae town of Morioka Hachimangu Shrine, and the area around Morioka Station, where new shops have opened in recent years...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.06.29

[Miyagi/Iwate] For memories of summer vacation! Pokemon train running between Ichinoseki and Kesennuma...

Did you know that there is a special train in Tohoku where you can enjoy the Pokemon Pikachu to your heart's content? This time, we will introduce what happened when I rode the "Pokemon Train Kesennuma" in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic...

natsukinatsuki2023.06.27

Bottle don (abalone, scallop, salmon roe)

Bottle Don is the definitive Sanriku souvenir that looks delicious! [Iwate Prefecture]

"Ben Don" was released in 2018 as a new specialty in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture. Mail orders began in June 2020, and as they were featured in various media, they quickly became popular nationwide...

AoiwaAoiwa2023.06.24

[Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture] 5 Morioka souvenirs! For those of you who have visited Morioka, here is a gift for yourself...

Since being selected as one of the "52 places to visit this year" by the New York Times, Morioka city has been seeing cars with license plates and foreign tourists with license plates in other prefectures, and souvenirs are selling well...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.06.20

[Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture] Enjoy the zoo in nature! Morioka City Zoological Park ZOOMO (ZOOMO...

Since its opening in 1989, Morioka City Zoo has been a popular place for Morioka citizens to interact with animals. Located in the hilly area on the outskirts of Morioka City, it is adjacent to Iwayama Park and Iwayama Parkland...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.06.19

[Iwate Prefecture] That person might have gone too! ? 5 recommended power spots in Iwate Prefecture

Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, is the second most featured in the US newspaper The New York Times as "52 places to visit in 2023," just after London, England. "You can get there in a short time from Tokyo, and there are plenty of people...

SatomioriSatomiori2023.06.09

[Tohoku] Strange festivals in Tohoku! ? Introducing 6 festivals that will surprise people from other prefectures

Japanese people are a festival-loving ethnic group. Festivals are held somewhere in Japan all year round. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, festivals have been self-restrained for the past few years, but due to the lifting of restrictions on activities, this year...

SatomioriSatomiori2023.05.08

[Tohoku] Where should we go during Golden Week in 2023? How about visiting zoos and aquariums in Tohoku?

The restrictions on behavior have also been lifted, and tourist destinations across the country are expected to be bustling this year's Golden Week. This year's Golden Week is expected to attract many tourists from overseas, not just Japanese people...

SatomioriSatomiori2023.04.26

[Iwate Prefecture] Professional sports in Iwate, which produced Yusei Kikuchi, Shohei Otani, and Aki Sasaki...

The long winter in Iwate Prefecture has come to an end and the long-awaited spring has finally come back to normal life since the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we can now cheer on sports as before. Iwate...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.04.21

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