Wetland / Marshland Spots in Iwate Area

Area

Iwate
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Travel / Tourism

Nature

Wetland / Marshland
- All categories
- Mountain
- Coast / Beach
- Waterfall
- Lake
- Plateau
- Valley
- Sea
- Island
- Cave
- Special Terrain
- River
- Pass
- Cape
- Wetland / Marshland
- Rock
- Whale Watching
- Peninsula
- Dune
- Other Natural Terrain

Hittori Marsh

Travel / Tourism

Iwate Shimohei-gun Iwaizumicho

The central marsh of the Kitakami Highland, it is off Prefectural Route 171 (Okawa-Matsukusa Line) accessible from National Route 340. The springtime Asian skunk cabbage, early summer rhododendrons, and autumn leaves are all beautiful. It's an Iwate Prefecture nature preserve, as well as a plant community forest reserve managed by Forestry agency, and has been selected as one of Japan’s top 100 natural landscapes for the 21st century. You can walk along established routes through the nature reserve. In spring the boardwalk is lined with Asian skunk cabbage, and rhododendrons are at their best in mid-July. Cows are visible at pasture in the distance.
Gozaisho-enchi

Travel / Tourism

Iwate Hachimantai-shi Midorigaoka

This garden is located in 2-Chiwari, Matsuoyoriki, Hachimantai City. Many kinds of wetland plants grow around the marsh, and since the nearby Akanuma Marsh is tinted by the ferric oxide in its waters, it is also called Goshiki (“five color”) Marsh. It is known as a lake that never freezes, even at -30°C. A trail that can be walked in 90 minutes has been laid out along the HachimantaiAspite Line Road.
Kuroyachi Marsh

Travel / Tourism

Iwate Hachimantai-shi Hachimantai Midorigaoka

This marsh is located along the Hachimantai Aspite Line Road in Hosono, Hachimantai City. The marsh was created when volcanic activity blocked a river. Day lilies, marsh orchids, and other high-altitude plants grow here. Visitors can go trekking on the paths that have been laid out, and to refresh themselves, they can go to nearby the water called Kuma-no-Izumi (Bear’s spring water).

Iwate

Morioka City / Shizukuishi Town / Koiwai Hanamaki / Tono Hachimantai / Appi Highland Sanriku Coast Hiraizumi / Oshu / Ichinoseki

Travel / Tourism Nature Wetland / Marshland

Iwate Areas

A northern Tohoku prefecture promising peace and quiet, Iwate is sparsely populated, replacing people with snow-capped mountains, history-rich sites, and fields of crops that are to thank for the region’s delicious local cuisine. Meander along the three-city Golden Route, where you’ll visit the grand Buddhist temples of Hiraizumi and the Tono folk villages before tasting the three famed noodle dishes of Morioka.