Iwate Travel Guide

Iwate is prefecture abundant in natural surroundings from which history has unfolded and various cultures have been nurtured. This vast land, blessed with rich natural resources, was considered by Miyazawa Kenji to be a utopia, which he affectionately referred to as 'Ihatov.' Miyazawa praised Iwate as 'a place where anything is possible.' 'If people were able to soar above the icy clouds and drift with the great wind currents, then traveling north, they would find a place where it is possible to talk to the very ants scuttling beneath vast carpets of red flowers.'