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A long-established Japanese restaurant founded in 1892 (Meiji 25) located near JR Hiraizumi Station. It focuses on local ingredients and offers dishes such as Maezawa beef and platinum pork, as well as eel dishes, with flavors tailored to modern tastes. The well-received Maesawa beef stamina set meal of 1450 yen (plus tax) is a lively content with hot spring eggs dropped on sukiyaki. Reservations in advance for groups.

A woody-built cafe with a renovated farm equipment shed. In front of you is a blueberry plantation, where you can taste sweets using the harvested fruit. A cota parfait with plenty of blueberries 650 yen (plus tax). There is also an open deck terrace. At lunchtime, the "prefecture pork shoulder loin stewed with blueberry", which is limited to 15 meals, is 1250 yen (plus tax). You can also enjoy picking blueberries in summer (beginning of July to about one month).

A Russian restaurant founded in 1973, located along National Route 107, north of JR Ejioiko Station. All dishes that are prepared with traditional Russian home cooking for Japanese tastes are gentle. The specialty is rolled cabbage made with a hot smetana sauce made with mozzarella and Gouda cheese made at the Troika cheese workshop on the premises. Borscht, which condenses the umami of vegetables, is also recommended. The smooth and creamy original baked cheesecake and natural cheesecake, baked with medium aging of its own method using fresh handmade cheese, are sold in stores.

Kitakami City is located in the middle of the Kitakami Basin in central Iwate Prefecture. "Kitakami beef" refers to Japanese beef with four or more grades of Japanese black hair raised in this blessed environment. Here is a yakiniku restaurant where you can fully enjoy dishes made from Hitomebore rice, vegetables, miso and wheat, including "Kitakami beef" produced by Western Development Co., Ltd., Japan's largest agricultural production corporation. Recommended are "Kitami beef ribs" (1430 yen) and "Kitami beef Marugyumori" (5100 yen) for 3 to 4 people. In addition to steak, shabu-shabu, sukiyaki, etc., one-dish dishes such as Kitami beef nigiri sushi and cold noodles are also available.

One of the "100 Places of Sakura", the Japanese restaurant where you can enjoy a meal while watching the cherry trees, the Kitakami River, and the beautiful coral bridge with its truss structure on the opposite bank of the exhibition. As a seasonal dish, four yuan pork and rice rice are also popular. Kitakami's local gourmet "Kitakami Croquette" has a unique texture using village potatoes. In addition, 10 soba soba using Sarashina flour is a good menu with a good throat.

Walking on the cobblestones in the Esashikura-machi mall, there is a restaurant, Epiya, which is a renovation of two storehouses built in the Meiji period. It retains the color of the storehouse, and offers the use of local attractive ingredients and a menu of local consumption. There are also play equipment and festival booths. You can also lend CD/DVD playback equipment, microphone speakers and projectors (reservations required).

Esashi's specialty egg noodles are fragrant noodles that are mixed with only eggs and flour without using oil. This raw noodle is a valuable thing that is not often placed in eateries. In addition, the specialty ankake udon has a warm taste that both body and heart. Please take the specialty of Esashi.

A resting place adjacent to Esashi Fujiwara no Sato, a historical park in Esashi, Oshu City. Original menus using local flavors such as Oshu Suiton Gozen and Oshu Maezawa beef Gozen are prepared. You can eat in a relaxed shop while watching the scenery of the four seasons. If five people or more can make a reservation at least five days in advance, I would like to try the Heian period food, which is made by studying literature and materials under the theme of "reenactments of the Heian period meal," which is suitable for modern people. Two types: the Feast of the Yoshimatsu, and the Feast of the Hidehira.

It is a heavy construction that makes use of old wood for three old private houses, and has a spacious pantry and a Junwa room. You can enjoy a dish that makes use of seasonal ingredients and ingredients of Iwate. Focusing Japanese cuisine, mountain fish such as rock fish, mountain woman, and ayu 800 yen ~ and seafood dishes, juicy taste of herb pork [tongue] spariv 1000 yen, Iwate brand beef steak, and pottery grilled are also recommended. In addition to 750 yen of Esashi's specialty, you can also eat 1 to 60 people, such as tea pickling and porridge, and banquet meals.