Morioka Castle Park is the seat and largest city of Iwate Prefecture.

Morioka Castle Park

Located in the city center, it is the ruins of a castle totaling 200,000 stones owned by the 16th century Morioka Han Minami Clan. Today, only the stone wall remains, and during the cherry blossom season, it is crowded with cherry blossom viewing parties day and night. From the top of the wall, you can see a beautiful sunset. There are a lot of calm cats in the back hills, not afraid of people.

From the city wall, you can visit the nearby Sakurayama Shrine. Cherry blossom type: Yoshino, cherry blossom number: about 250 trees.
Address: Ichimaru 1-37 020-0023, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Access: 1 Take the bus to the Bus Center from Morioka Station on the JR Tohoku Main Line and get off at Uchimaru. 2 18 minutes walk from Morioka Station

Tattoo friendly niche Japanese hot spring hotel

The "Three soup Flow" at Hanamaki Onsen Hotel Iwate Prefecture is amazing! Live in any one can enjoy the Qianqiu Pavilion - Hanamaki Hot spring - Red leaf soup bubble, which Hanamaki hot spring and red leaf soup have indoor and outdoor baths at the same time, catch the last wave of the mountain near 0 degrees at night, to steam out all the complaints due

Specially asked the sister at the front desk to tattoo cover stickers, she secretly said that small tattoos are okay, and the grandma, aunt, sister and sister in the hot spring are also very receptive, and they successfully got along with each other after two days of soaking. A bigger suggestion than this is the private soup of Hanamaki Hot spring!

Hanamaki Onsen Hotel is located on JR Tohoku Shinkansen, less than three hours by train from Tokyo Station, and is picked up free of charge by hotel bus from Shin-Hanamaki Station.
Set a pobo two food, eat the hotel buffet, the main pine leaf crab and steak unlimited eat! Large pine leaf crab legs fresh sweet fat, gently cut, the whole leg shelled out, great satisfaction.

This is a person to travel, set the Red leaf Hall super small single room, like the Korean examination Institute, fortunately, the mattress is hard, super comfortable to sleep! Although the staff is difficult in English, the radio can speak Japanese once and the station once, so that you can understand every facility. That's 620 a night. That's a good deal.

Cave exploration ~ Longquan Cave, the three largest stalactite caves in Japan

"Longquan Cave" is the largest limestone cave in Japan and a famous tourist attraction in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
If there is no private transportation, it is slightly inconvenient to take the Morioka - Iwakumi (Ryongchu-dong) bus. The drive takes about 2 hours, but note that there are only about 4 departures per day.


The temperature in Longquan Cave is about 10 degrees all year round, and you can wear a light coat and a hat. Because of the occasional drip of water in the cave, some sections of the trail are built above the underground river, so you can hear the murmuring sound.


Occasionally accompanied by the sound of surging water, the cave contains eight underground lakes and strange rocks. Only three of them can be visited at the moment. The stone walls are illuminated with bright light, and the underground lake also reflects beautiful blue light

There is a staircase of about 270 steps at the back, and the top can overlook the whole underground lake from a higher place, and the stalactites sometimes look a little scary after they are lit. If the physical strength is not good, you can also directly choose to return ~

There are also bat caves, but bats are mostly resting or hibernating during the day and winter. If you pay a little attention, you can see it on the stone wall. The whole visit time is about 1 hour.

Iwate Palace ancient travels to my sea urchin paradise

I finally ordered rice with raw sea urchin! This is probably the most luxurious rice in his family, and besides the sweet raw sea urchins, there are many local specialties of fish and shellfish. Just at noon, I saw sea urchins and young sea squirts in the green Cave, and I ate them all in the evening. His squid is also super delicious, which is completely different from the ones you get at the few revolving sushi restaurants you frequent in Tokyo.

Experienced a second floor and room, sitting cross-legged for half an hour leg numbness, give up the image of stretching legs when found that the next table has been dignified kneeling Japanese little sister can not sit and began to stretch legs haha. The next morning, after checking out, I came back for brunch and lunch, and took away a Kitasanriku rice. Maybe because I helped the clerk communicate with the foreign tourists, I felt that the bento was much more luxurious than the last time, and in addition to the hairy crab, it was stuffed with a big crab leg.

This time, he even ate two days, and figured out his holiday queue schedule. It opens at 10:00, it's usually an easy walk in at 10:30, the line starts at 11:00, and there's a rush hour at 11:30 with about 20 people standing at the gate. You can walk in at four or five at night, wait in line at six. Cruises don't seem to have much effect on midday queues, perhaps because locals and Japanese tourists tend to eat at the restaurant.