Explore the areas
Four areas to see in person
A guide to disaster-recovery tourism, from disaster ruins to rebuilt towns. Please check each facility's official information for opening hours and closing days.
Kesennuma & Minamisanriku
A region where harbor towns suffered greatly in the tsunami. In Kesennuma the ruins and memorial museum keep a former school building as it was damaged, and in Minamisanriku the site of the Disaster Prevention Center quietly tells what happened. Markets and shops by the sea also show life in the port today.
Ishinomaki, Onagawa & Higashimatsushima
Ishinomaki has several disaster ruins that teach lessons. Onagawa is a town that rebuilt a new shopping street in front of its station and worked on recovery as a community. In Higashimatsushima you can follow the traces of the railway damage and reopening.
Sendai & Matsushima
On Sendai's coast, an elementary school reached by the tsunami is preserved as disaster ruins. Both the damage and the new life stand side by side near a large city. Matsushima, a famous sightseeing spot, still draws many visitors.
Southern Miyagi (Natori, Iwanuma, Watari, Yamamoto)
Yuriage in Natori, the "Millennium Hope Hills" in Iwanuma and the ruins in Yamamoto are among the places that pass on disaster prevention. From the hills you can feel the distance between the sea and the town.
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