【Iwate・Hanamaki】 Experience a giant soft serve and the 'scenery that nurtured dreams'

Step off the elevator and you'll find yourself in a vast space that feels like a time slip back to the Showa era. This is "Marukan Building Dining Hall," a place filled with memories for the locals and a 'taste of the heart' for the citizens of Hanamaki.

Here, there's a specialty that everyone wants to photograph at least once—a towering 25cm soft serve ice cream eaten with chopsticks! 🍦

The glossy, swirled soft serve has a gentle, nostalgic sweetness of milk. Each bite brings laughter and surprise, with voices echoing, "How do you even eat such a big soft serve?!"

But this isn't just any retro food court.

This is also a place frequented by Shohei Ohtani during his school days. Whether with family, friends, or after baseball practice—imagining him enjoying a soft serve here while harboring his big dreams gives this space a special energy.

Retro tables, a lively dining hall, and people enjoying their meals with smiles. And the soft serve, unchanged and still here, continues to support the 'origin' of dreams across generations.

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📍 Marukan Building Dining Hall
6th Floor, 6-2 Kamicho, Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture
🚃 About a 15-minute walk or a 5-minute taxi ride from JR Hanamaki Station
🕒 Hours: 11:00 AM–6:30 PM (Last order at 6:00 PM)
🎟 Giant Soft Serve Ice Cream: A miraculous price of 180 yen (tax included)!

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📌 A soft serve enjoyed in the midst of chasing dreams.
There are people who still remember its taste to this day.