Hirota Peninsula

yacon juice

Yacon is a healthy vegetable with a delicious rhizome that is native to South America and is rich in nutrients. This simple juice made from yacon grown in Rikuzentakata is a healthy food juice that can be expected to have an intestinal regulating effect.

Takada Matsubara Beach

In 2021, the beach reopened for the first time in 11 years.

Takada Matsubara and the miraculous single pine tree

It is a bow-shaped sandy beach that stretches from the mouth of the Kesen River to Hirota Bay, and was once one of the most representative beaches on the Rikuchu coast, but it was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake. A forest of tens of thousands of red pine and black pine trees over 300 years old had been planted over a 2km stretch, but they were washed away without a trace. The single pine tree that miraculously survived has become a symbol of reconstruction, and has been preserved as a monument for future generations.