It is on the rocky mountain mountaintop that the city can overlook, and there is "image of woodpecker longing for home" made in 1982 by Sakae Terui. Rocky mountain mountaintop neighborhood of 345 meters in height is maintained as park and is got close as "hill of woodpecker longing for home". "Image of woodpecker longing for home" goes to the mountains of Himekami with oldness, and song of longing for home of "what and * kuramu is ticked away in insects rising in field of Mikata of the foot in Yamaaki, Iwate" which woodpecker loved most. "Couple monument inscribed with a tanka poem" of Mr. and Mrs. poet who does not read example is built nationwide near; of woodpecker when if "mountain of hometown is seen to the north much more, and window of train comes, correct collar"; of wife Setsuko "ko* kukohorogi calls, and do, and enter in autumn from evening, and two of next tokono chest reveal Kinu" are ticked away. We make the will half, and it is attacked in poverty with youth slightly in its twenties by illness, and it is with song now, and two people who left the world in succession stare at the mountains and rivers of hometown. We can look down at "capital Morioka of forest and water" which Kitakami River, the Nakatsu River, Shizukuishi river drifts from a certain rocky mountain observatory on this park, and expects beautiful peak of Mt. Iwate and Himekami in the distance in panorama of 360 degrees.