Iwate Prefecture

[Iwate Prefecture] Soul food of Morioka citizens? "Fukuda Pan" Coppepan

If you're traveling to Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, you should definitely try Fukuda bread. Fukuda bread is soul food for Morioka people. If you live in Morioka and have never eaten this, then you probably have 3...

Chimon2016.12.12

[Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture] I want to go again and again! 5 hot spring inns in Hanamaki with many repeat guests

Iwate Prefecture is famous as Miyazawa Kenji's hometown. Among them, Hanamaki City has many tourist spots and many hot springs, including Shinkamaki Station on the Shinkansen and the expressway. This time...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.11.27

[Iwate] Ryusendo Cave, one of the three largest limestone caves in Japan

Ryusen Cave is a stalactite cave located in Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, and is also known as Iwaizumi Wakkutsu. With a total length of about 1,200m and an elevation difference of about 249m, it is located in Akiyoshido and Kochi prefectures in Yamaguchi Prefecture...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.10.14

[Iwate] “Tono Furusato Village” where you can experience “Maburitto” and mountain village life

Tono Hometown Village in Iwate Prefecture is a facility that recreates the old-fashioned lifestyle of Tono, where you can participate in numerous experience programs. By actually doing farming work, we live in the mountains...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.10.14

"Yohanekei" in Ichinoseki City, where even neighbors even have strangers [Iwate Prefecture]

Geibikei is a valley about 2km wide in the middle Sutetsu River, located in Higashiyamacho, Ichinoseki City, Iwate Prefecture, and was a hidden area that even those who lived nearby were known to have known before the Meiji period. ...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.10.11

Mokoshiji Temple, the world heritage site with Japan's oldest garden, the Jodo Garden [Iwate Prefecture]

Motsuuji Temple, located in Hiraizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, is a Tendai sect temple with its main image of Yakushi Nyorai statue, and is said to have been founded in 850 by Jikaku Daishi Ennin. ...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.10.05

[Iwate] The famous mountain “Mt. Iwate” also called Iwate Fuji

Iwate is one of the 100 most famous mountains in Japan that Iwate boasts. Mt. Iwate is also known as Iwate Fuji, and is a symbolic presence for Iwate Prefecture. The spectacular view of the mountain can be viewed from Morioka City, and...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.09.14

"Genbikei" is a famous spot in Ichinoseki city that is famous for its emerald green river surface and flying dumplings.

Genbikei is a valley that spans approximately 2km, located in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, formed by the erosion of the Iwai River. The rough rock surfaces of strange rocks and strange rocks are steep, and it's dynamic...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.09.12

[Iwate Prefecture] Chusonji, a world heritage site famous as the temple of the third generation of the Oshu Fujiwara clan

Chusonji Temple is located in Hiraizumi-cho, Nishiiwai-gun, Iwate Prefecture, which is the head temple of the Tendai sect Tohoku University. It is the 33 extra temples of Oshu, with the mountain name being Sekiyama and the main image being Shakyamuni Buddha. Compassion...

NEFT Editorial Department2016.09.12