40°N Symbol Tower

Shirai Kaigan Station

An unexplored station on the Sanriku Railway, said to be the best in Tohoku. It is sandwiched between two tunnels, and there is only one forest road in front of the station, and it is far from the village. The station's nickname is "The Scent of Sea Urchins." The Shirai area was named because it is a sea urchin production area. The scene where the main characters run through the tunnel aired in the final episode of the drama "Ama-chan" is the Daisan Shirai Tunnel adjacent to the north side (downbound side) of the station. It is also said that the photo was taken in

Kurosakienchi

Kurosaki is a 150 to 200 meter high cliff that plunges almost perpendicularly into the Pacific Ocean. At the tip of the cape is the Kurosaki Lighthouse, which was selected as one of Japan's top 50 lighthouses in 1998 and one of the ``Lighthouses in Love'' in 2019. The surrounding area includes the symbolic tower at 40 degrees north latitude, the Carillon Bell, the Kurosaki-so National Lodge, and the Kurosaki Observation Deck, and the view of the sunrise from here is breathtakingly beautiful.

Fudai Sluice Gate

It is a water gate with a height of 15.5m and a total length of 205m that reaches the mouth of the Fudai River. This is one of the largest flood gates in the Tohoku region, assuming a 15-meter Meiji tsunami, and it stopped the tsunami that occurred in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake from flooding into the center of the village. The water gate was completed in 1984 at a total construction cost of 3.56 billion yen. Nearby is a monument honoring Yukitoshi Kazumura, the village chief at the time, who was instrumental in this project, with the inscription ``What happened twice must not happen a third time.'' It is also certified as a geosite of Sanriku Geopark.