The fortieth prefecture is Aomori. When I heard we would have a task in Aomori, I told my colleagues I would take it. The reason was that I had never been to Aomori, of course. There was no appropriate reason for them to comply with my wish, however, they kindly admitted.
The 八甲田山 (Mt. Hakkouda), also famous from the film, must be in the picture. I found mysterious lands, neither paddy nor cultivated fields, but short grasses spread. It looked like a pasture, but no domestic animals.
I wanted to eat niboshi-ramen, which the colour is silver, but the shop didn't have it. The above is mere soy-source ramen in dried fish broth.
I wished I would stay in the neighbour prefecture Iwate, which was supposed to be the forty-first, after the task, but communication flaws with my boss prevented it.
