Welcome to Kawanosoba. When you are traveling, and it is your first visit to a city, do you ever wonder, "What kind of life do the people who live in this city have every day?" Do you ever imagine what their life is like? When you watch people walking down the street in the morning, or at lunch come upon a popular local soba shop, or at night, see the lights of a house shining out from a window, do you feel that you would like to experience that city’s lifestyle more deeply? If so, Kawanosoba is the place for you! Kawanosoba is a 50-year-old house that we have renovated. It is in a residential area near the Nakatsugawa River, which runs through Morioka City in Iwate Prefecture. We moved into this house built in 1965 in the fall of 2019, registered it as a private shortterm lodging naming it “Kawanosoba," and we are living there now. In English, “Kawanosoba” means “riverside.” When guests stay at Kawanosoba, we hope they will engage with us in conversation and the routine activities of daily life. From where we live in the middle of Morioka city, we can see the mountains. We spend our mornings and evenings walking along the Nakatsugawa River with our dog, a black Shiba Inu (named Rokubonta). We regularly go out to the markets in search of delicious local and exotic vegetables and fruit. Then, we often stop into nearby restaurants or coffee shops. We want Kawanosoba to be a place like that brings back the spirit of what life was like here a long time ago. Please join us at Kawanosoba, our old but newly renovated lodging, surrounded by the nature and history of Morioka and Iwate. We believe that no matter which town you live in, there will always be happy and sad times, convenient and inconvenient things. We hope that when you stay at Kawanosoba, you will get a sense of what Morioka life is like. We hope that "Kawanosoba" will be the kind of place that makes you want to say "I'm home!" whenever you visit.