Takada Matsubara Beach

Rikuzentakata City Museum

The Rikuzentakata City Museum, which opened in 1955 as the first publicly registered museum in the Tohoku region, was completely destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and valuable materials were also devastated. Afterwards, with the cooperation of specialized organizations and local people from all over the country, many of the materials affected by the disaster were rescued and regenerated, and a new facility was established with the functions of the "Sea and Shellfish Museum," which also suffered devastating damage. It opened in November 2014. This is a comprehensive museum that conveys the nature, history, and culture of Rikuzentakata to the future along with the memories of the earthquake.

Tsubakijima

Aomatsushima and Tsubakijima are the beautiful islands at the tip of the Hirota Peninsula and the southernmost tip of Iwate Prefecture. It is famous as a breeding ground for black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed cats, and groups of black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed black-tailed cats gather here from April to July. Tsubakijima used to have a colony of camellias on one side, but due to the breeding of black-tailed black-tailed gulls, it has now withered and is now a bare island. Aomatsushima is designated as a prefectural scenic spot and natural monument, and Tsubakishima is designated as a national natural monument.

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.