Hiraizumi We took the Tohoku Main line from Ichinoseki to Hiraizumi. There were quite a few passengers on that line. I went to Tohoku for the school excursion during my junior high school period. My father also remembered going to Tohoku with his students in line with the extension of the Shikansen’s service to Tohoku at the beginning of the 1980s. I remembered visiting Hiraizumi and Matsushima, both of which were associated with the famous poet Matsuo Basho, as a part of the excursion, but I wasn’t particularly interested in the historical artefacts and monuments of Hiraizumi at that time – I couldn’t explain to Mark the features of Mōtsū-ji and Chūson-ji temples and what we would see. Thus, I had looked at the information about these historic temples on the websites and found the following
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