Must try food experience in Iwate, Japan! 🇯🇵 Iwate is famous for wanko soba, a fast-paced noodle tradition where tiny bowls of soba are refilled the moment you finish them! The aim is to eat as many bowls as you can before finally clapping a lid to signal surrender! It’s fun, delicious and a food experiences that captures the prefecture’s fun-loving side perfectly. We visited Azumaya in Morioka, one of the city’s most iconic spots to try it. Afterwards, take a wander through Morioka, a charmin

Only in Japan!! 🍡 My first time visiting Iwate — and I instantly fell in love with this prefecture’s fun, creative food scene. At Kakkōya (郭公屋), a small riverside shop, you can experience the pure joy of having dango mochi (chewy rice dumplings) fly over to you! You place 500 yen in a basket, hit the wooden board with a mallet to signal the shop and watch as it zips across the beautiful Genbikei Gorge, before it returns with warm, chewy rice dumplings covered in sweet sesame, soy, and red bean