2025 Nishiiwai District Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in July)

#0yentravelFebruary2025 [Chusonji Temple] 🕰️Business hours: 0830-1700 🏖️Atmosphere/Facilities: ◯ 📍Address: 202 Hiraizumi Kinuzeki, Hiraizumi-cho, Nishiiwai-gun, Iwate Prefecture 029-4195 💰Price per person: 1000~ 💞Reason for recommendation: Chusonji Temple and Konjikido are in different places‼︎ You can get a goshuin stamp in three places🤍 The long uphill climb was very tough, but the real thing was much more amazing than it looked in photos😭❤️ Admission is 1000 yen🤍 As it is a World Heritage Site, it was very dignified🫣 It's the best!

Iwate is famous for its wankosoba, so when I went to Chusonji Temple, I went to Sobadokoro Yoshiie, a wankosoba restaurant on the approach to the temple! It's open from 10:30, so I recommend stopping by before or on your way back from Chusonji Temple! ✔️Menu I ordered 1 layer (16 bowls) of wankosoba 2,200 yen You can change it to brown soba for an additional 200 yen, so I changed it to brown soba 🍵 ✔️Recommended points ⚫︎ You can enjoy a single serving of wankosoba (16 bowls) 🥢 Iwate is famous for its all-you-can-eat wankosoba, but here you can enjoy a single serving of wankosoba, so it's nice to be able to eat at your own pace 🥢 ⚫︎You can choose from two types: regular soba and brown soba! There aren't many places to eat cha soba, so this was a nice point for me~🤤 ⚫︎There are a lot of different condiments🥢 Not only the standard green onions, wasabi, and nori, but also wild vegetables, grated yam, and grated mushrooms were included, so it was nice to be able to change the flavor as you eat!!! Other than that, tempura and dessert were included, so I was full of delicious food🫶 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜 There are several restaurants where you can eat wanko soba near the parking lot of Chusonji Temple, but this one has a better exterior atmosphere and is easy to get in at lunchtime, so I recommend it🙆♀️ ---- 📍 Access 🚄Tohoku Shinkansen Tokyo to Ichinoseki Station Approximately 2 hours 20 minutes 🚃Tohoku Main Line Ichinoseki to Hiraizumi Station Approximately 10 minutes 🚌Hiraizumi Station Shuttle Bus Hiraizumi Station to Chusonji Temple About 10 minutes 👣About 5 minutes walk from the bus stop 🍁Price Wankosoba 1 layer (16 bowls) 2,200 yen *If you change to brown soba, it will be +200 yen. If you add 1 layer (16 bowls) of soba, it will be +900 yen. Payment is cash only💰 🕰️Business hours 10:30-15:30 *Ends when soba runs out. ---- #Domestic travel record #Soba place Yoshiie #Chusonji #Wankosoba #Iwate gourmet

Benkei-do (formerly Atago-do), a small hall on the left hand side on the way up Tsukimizaka in the grounds of Chusonji Temple, enshrines a wooden statue of Benkei. The principal image is Shogun Jizo. It is said that if you pray to this statue, you will win battles and avoid karma and famine, and it was worshiped by samurai from the Kamakura period onwards. It is a figure wearing armor and holding a weapon. Inside the hall, you can see wooden statues of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who committed suicide at Kinugawa-yakata, and Benkei and Yoshitsune, who are known for being stranded. The Benkei statue is life-size at 186cm! It must have been quite large for people of the past. Benkei: Please wait for me on the way to the other world. Yoshitsune: Let's meet again in the next world. There are also goshuin stamps. Benkei-do (formerly Atago-do) (Benkei-do) 202 Kinoseki, Hiraizumi, Hiraizumi-cho, Nishiiwai-gun, Iwate Prefecture - Chusonji Temple grounds - Opening hours: Summer (March 1st to November 3rd) 8:30-17:00 Winter (November 4th to end of February) 8:30-16:30 Admission fee: Free #PR #Autumn leaves spot #Iwate sightseeing #Hiraizumi #Temple stamp tour #Iwate trip #Benkei-do