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hey guys good morning
i'm here with my friend quinlan today
and welcome to sakura adventure
day two this is probably will be the
last sakura adventure of the year
because it's gonna be a really rainy
weekend they will probably all fall off
the trees so
let's enjoy it while we can i've brought
you guys to taka matsunoike
i've wanted to come here for about 15
years now and i'm so happy
that we got to do it during sakura
season because it's absolutely beautiful
so let's go check it out i used to live
right near
this lake when i lived here in morioka
back when i was 19 years old
and i used to come here all the time and
go for walks and it's just so
nostalgic being here it's really weird
because it's been
so long and this might actually be the
first time i've experienced it during
spring i can't remember ever coming here
to see the sakura so this is really cool
we lucked out with the weather uh it's a
little cloudy today but
it's not bad windy as always marioka is
so windy
all the time it seems like every year as
soon as the sakuras are in full
it's like windy and rainy and they get
blown off like a week around
otherwise we had perfect weather like
for a month leading up to the sakura now
it's just
wind and rain at least we got one day
to enjoy them
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so
is there any koi oh there is right there
yeah a big one
sleeping ducks oh
he is huge what a monster oh yeah we'll
see more koi when we're on the other
side of like we do live
so there's a little viewpoint here where
you could have a
perfect view of mount iwate straight
ahead
if it was a clear day can't really see
the
the peak of it today but i can just
imagine that would be the perfect photo
with the sakura there
and the grass in the foreground is such
a shame maybe next week
well as a consolation prize do you see
that area
right over there yeah that's akita
komagatake which
is a gorgeous like a strata volcano with
five print summons that is
not too grueling so if you're up for a
semi-grueling hike i'd love to show you
there sometime
later in the year yeah that's such a
nice walking path they've got here
it's really well maintained yeah it's
really nice
for that i used to live a little closer
to here so i would yeah
i missed that are these
pine yes they are pine which is of
course
matzo and so the name of this is
takamata oh that's why
yeah never thought of that
makes sense what's down here it's
another viewpoint
i think yeah feed the koi spot oh cool
are you allowed to bring your own boat
on
here no but i
bet you could you think i don't think
you'd get yelled at
it's not really anyone around to yell at
you true
but they do have the swan boats way in
the distance there
yeah because you can rent those for
fairly cheap you'd be upset if you
brought your yeah true
we have a break in the wind for a minute
so we're gonna
take a look at some of these weeping
sakura shi darei sakura
in japanese it's so pretty
wow there's lots of them here
all right we're heading to our next spot
now apparently it's a fox shrine
i've never been there but hopefully they
have some sakura as well
you guys are gonna like this so this is
sakakiyama shrine thanks so much to
quinlan for showing me this
even though i used to live in this area
i've never come here before and it's so
pretty especially during sakura season
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this is such a nice little shrine wow
and you can climb up the mountain there
yep this is so picturesque how did i go
so many years without knowing this
existed
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and then down here there's a little area
where students can
pray to pass their entrance exams any
kinds of
exams at school oh these look like
they're quite old
some of them are high school exam past
the high school exam
this person wants to get into some sort
of specialty technical school to learn
neurology
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so our next stop is the ishiwari zakara
which i haven't seen blooming ever
i can say that for sure how have you
lived in mario kart i know and never
miss it every year well i feel like when
the sakuras start to bloom i make it a
point to go to like one of the really
big parks or something to enjoy them and
i never take the time to go see the
ishiwari zakara
but it's like the symbol of morioka so
it's a sakura tree that is
blooming and like has grown up through a
rock and cracked it like a giant rock
it's huge it's really impressive
honestly and the tree itself is said to
be like 400 years old
is it yeah yeah wow
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so
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so this is a quiet little area where you
can enjoy some really pretty blossoms
this is the old moat
that used to surround morioka castle
when it existed
you can see the ruins and we'll be going
there next but
they still have gorgeous sakura trees
lining the water here and it's really
quiet not too many people come down here
so
it's kind of one of the more secret
spots
maybe that you could enjoy them without
uh having a noisy crowd
petals are already falling into the
river so fast
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and that brings us to morioka castle
park probably the best place no
definitely the best place
to see sakura in morioka if you guys
want to see more of this park i did
cover it in my video from
last week so go check that out i'll link
it down below and go check out quinlan's
channel
if you want to explore more of the
mountainous regions of iwate
cleveland's your guy i will link him
down below thanks so much for watching
guys and i'll see you again very soon
bye for now
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