Hanamaki Nitobe Memorial Hall

花巻新渡戸記念館

Hanamaki Nitobe Memorial Hall stands in the ancestral home region of educator-diplomat Nitobe Inazo, remembered for the ideal of becoming a bridge across the Pacific. Official pages explain that his forebears lived in Hanamaki for about 230 years from 1598 as castle retainers and land developers, and that grandfather Tsuto began Sanbongihara irrigation works in 1855 with later generations helping found today's Towada. The hall presents Nitobe family achievements, related objects, and Inazo's international world.