盛冈位于日本本州的东北,距东京有十几个小时的火车路程。宗一郎从盛冈站下了火车后,接他的人一看他不过十七、八岁,脸上就露出失望的表情,似乎在说:“怎么派这样年轻的学徒来?他行吗?”给他安排的住宿是最廉价的三等房。 Morioka is located in the northeast of Honshu, Japan, more than a dozen hours away from Tokyo by train. When Choichiro got off the train from Morioka Station, the man who took him and saw him at the age of seventeen or eight but with a disappointed expression on his face seemed to say, "How to send such a young apprentice? The accommodation he arranges is the cheapest third class room.