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Rokunohe Junction Misawa-Towada-Shimoda Interchange ❶ Kabushima Island Tohoku Shinkansen ❷ Tanesashi Coast Mukaiyama 338 Hachinohe City 4 Hachinohe City Towada City Rokunohe Town Oirase Town The Land and Sea of Sanriku I Love 102 45 Aoimori Railway Kabushima Island was formed by the Shimoda-Momoishi Interchange The Tanesashi Coast is lined intermittently activity of a volcano on the ocean floor A 102 In the distant past, the cape I’m looking at now was in an equatorial region. A with black pine forests and fields of beach about 130 million years ago. Throughout Rokunohe Shimoda 45 plants’ flowers bordering a reef zone. Japan, most of the black-winged gulls’ In the distant past, the mountains soaring above your eyes were the sea bed. During the Edo period, horses were raised Oirase Towada breeding sites are situated on precipitous Korekawa Ruins The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011. at the natural lawn. This gently-sloping cliffs or isolated islands that are Mutsuichikawa flatland, which used to produce horses and inaccessible to many, but at Kabushima Hachinohe-kita Interchange I will certainly never be able to forget that disaster. sustained the Nambu clan, was formed Hachinohe Portal Museum Kabushima Island Island, people can get right up close to the Gonohe Town ❶ But I love the land and sea of my parents’ hometown just as they did. when the seabed rose to the surface. gulls’ nests and observe them. “hacchi” Ashigesaki Observatory Same Mutsu-Minato Hachinohe Naganawashiro Hachinohe Shall we walk together? Expressway Aomori Prefecture 454 Line Shirogane Konakano ❷ Tanesashi Coast Mutsu-Shirahame Hachinohe Hon-Hachinohe Tanesashi-Kaigan Hachinohe City Museum Hachinohe Interchange Hachinohe City Okuki MAP 3-B Hachinohe-minami Interchange MAP 3-B 104 Tohoku 45
Shinkansen Kanehama 454 Kitatakaiwa Hachinohe-Korekawa Interchange ❹ Mount Hashikamidake 4 Tomabechi ❸ Tanesashi-kaigan-Hashikamidake Interchange ❻ Taneichi Seaside Park Shingo Village Oja Hashikami Town Hachinohe Junction Korekawa Hashikami Hashikami Hirono Town Kenyoshi 340 ❺ Hashikami Marine Terrace Jomon Kan Hashikami Town Kadonohama Shingo Hachinohe Expressway Magma deep beneath the earth’s surface Nanbu Town Hashikami Interchange Taneichi Seaside Park is a park facility slowly cooled and hardened. found on the south side of Taneichi fishing Hiranai This then rose up over the next 100 million B B harbor which is surrounded by the rich Aoimori Railway Mount Hashikamidake years and became eroded, forming Mount Suwanotaira nature of northern Sanriku. Next to the park Nango Nango Interchange Taneichi Hashikamidake (739 meters above sea ❹ ❻ Taneichi is Madoiwa Rock (Window Rock) which, as level), which resembles a sprawling cow. Sannohe Sannohe its name suggests, has a window-like About 20,000 mountain azaleas grow in Mount Hashikamidake Seaside Park gaping hole. This unusually-shaped, 4 Tamagawa great profusion here, and and it is a popular Sannohe Town artistic-looking rock was formed by tourist destination. Hirono Town Shukunohe Cretaceous period (85 million years ago) 340 layers and shaped by the rough northern Metoki Rikuchu-Yagi seas. Takko Town 340
MAP 4-D Kintaichi-Onsen Karumai Interchange Uge MAP 3-C 395 Ono Marine Terrace
340 Park National ko Fuk Sanriku ❽ Kosode Coast Rikuchu-Nakano ❾ Kuji Mountain Stream Karumai Town ❼ 45 104 Iwate Galaxy Kuji City Ninohe City Tomai Railway Ono Kuji City The Kosode Coast, made famous by the The magnificent landscape of Kuji Mountain
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Ninohe Samuraihama Stream is known for the fresh greenery of C Hachinohe C morning TV drama series “Amachan,” was Kunohe Interchange spring and the brilliant colors of the autumn 4 Line formed about 130 million years ago by Oritsume leaves. The crag known as Kagamiiwa volcanic activity and magma that hardened Ichinohe Interchange 395 Rock, rising perpendicularly from the water, underground. As a rich fishing ground for was created from an undersea limestone Kuji-kita Interchange sea urchin and abalone, this rocky area Kunohe Village mountain which was formed by accumulation Tohoku Shinkansen Hachinohe Ichinohe has maintained the livelihood of the Expressway Kuji City Rikuchu-Natsui Kuji Amber of the skeletons of corals, etc., on the ocean northernmost ama (women divers). Kuji Amber Museum floor during the Triassic period (about 220 Joboji Interchange Ichinohe Town Kuji Kuji Bay million years ago) 281 Kuji Kozuya ❾ 11 ❽ Kosode Coast Kuji Mountain Stream MAP 4-D Sanriku Railway MAP 4-D Shirakaba no Sato Kita-Rias Line ExpresswayTohoku Yamagata ⓬ Tofugaura Coast Rikuchu-Ube ⓮ Kurosaki 282 Kotsunagi Iwate Galaxy Railway 45 Noda Bay Noda Village 340 Noda Fudai Village Ashiro Interchange Rikuchu-Noda Drawing a gentle arc with its faintly purple Yokoma Ashiro Junction From Ammoura, a picturesque spot where “azuki sand,” the Tofugaura Coast is an Araya-Shinmachi 12 Tofugaura cliffs over 100 meters high stretch out along D Line D Hanawa area of scenic beauty. Since ancient times, Noda-Tamagawa the coast, a waterfall that looks like a single it has been famed in Japanese classical Koyanohata Tohoku Remains of Noda-Tamagawa Mine 13 long thread flowing into the Pacific Ocean Expressway poetry, often appearing as “Tofugaura Okunakayama-Kogen Noda Village can be viewed. Netarihama Beach, sugagomo (sedge mats)”. Many sandy 281 Horinai Station Fudaihama Beach, Noda and Kuji can be Akasakata beaches were washed away in the 2011 10 Uchimagido Cave Horinai seen in one sweep of the eye from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, but they 4 Kurosaki Observatory located on the 40° are expected to be restored. Marine Rose Park Shiraikaigan Fudai Floodgates north latitude. 20 Permian-Triassic Noda-Tamagawa Appi-Kogen 15 Boundary Layer Fudai Mido Remains of Kurosaki Kuzumaki Town Fudai 14 Warisawa Mine Village MAP 4-E Iwate Town MAP 4-E 281 282 16 18Kitayamazaki Matsuo-Hachimantai Kuzumaki-Kogen 22 ⓱ Miyako Group Ishigami-no-Oka 340 Kitayamazaki ⓲ Kitayamazaki and Unosu Cliffs Kitamori Iwate-Numakunai Akkado Cave Visitors’ Center Tanohata Village Tairadate Tanohata Village Matsuo-Hachimantai Interchange Sappa Boat Raga / The Raga, Tanohata and Hiraiga layers 4 Adventures Kitayamazaki is ranked “Special A” in the Tanohata Shimanokoshi which make up the Miyako group slope Hachimantai City 19 category of “coasts,” which is the top E Iwate-Kawaguchi Tanohata Village E towards the sea at about a 30° angle. Obuke Shimanokoshi Miyako Group ranking among tourist attractions in Japan Hanawa Line 17 Dense layers of fossils of marine Higashi-Obuke Tanohata by the Japan Travel Bureau Foundation invertebrates such as coral and bivalves, 282 18 Unosu Cliffs (JTB). The large cliffs over 200 meters high and a layer of sediment from a Cretaceous Mitakai Bunko stretch for eight kilometers from south to Tohoku Shinkansen period tsunami about 110 million years ago Nishine Interchange Nishine Iwate Galaxy Railway Iwaizumi Town 45 north. Near the surface of the sea, can be observed. Tohoku Expressway Koma unusually-shaped rocks and marine caves 455 Ryusendo Cave formed by the erosion of the waves catch 22 Kumanohana the eye. 340 Observatory Mount Ureirayama Omoto 455 Shibutami Iwaizumi 21 Moshi MAP 3-E Coast MAP 4-F 282 Settai
Sanriku Railway Ryusendo Cave Takizawa Interchange Takizawa Kita-Rias Line Sanno-Iwa Rock
Iwaizumi Town Sugo Miyako City Takizawa City 4 Ryusendo Cave is counted as one of the 340 Sanno-Iwa Rock was formed over many 455 Taro Sanno-iwa three major limestone caves in Japan, and F F years by the push and pull of waves and it has been designated as a national natural Yamada Line Rock wind. On the rock face, a horizontal striped Kuriyagawa Kami-Yonai Oshida monument. The known areas of the cave pattern created by Cretaceous period (110 cover over 3,100 meters and the total size Taro 27 million years ago) sandstone and gravel Aoyama is estimated to be over 5,000 meters. Also, 25 (Miyako group) can be seen. The strength Akita Shinkansen Okama 46 Asagishi the water that springs from deep inside the Yamagishi Sabane of nature can be felt from the shape of the Kami-Morioka Taro Seawall Koiwai cave is one of the clearest in the world. Tazawako Line Morioka Interchange rock, was has remained unchanged even 46 Morioka Morioka City Miyako City by the tsunami following the earthquake in Senbokucho 46 Ichinowatari the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Tohoku. 106 396 Miyako Jodogahama Boat Cruise Jodogahama Jodogahama Visitors’ Center Iwate-Iioka Beach MAP 4-G Kuzakai Kuzakai-kogen 23 MAP 4-H Morioka-minami Interchange Yamabiko-kan Miyako Kitakamisanchi Yamaguchi Danchi Miyako Matsukusa Kawauchi Museum of Folklore Sentoku 106 Miyako Jodogahama Beach Hikime Sokei Mount Yamada Bay Hiratsuto 340 Kebaraichi Miyako Bay Yahaba Town Moichi 45 Gassan Miyako City Hakoishi Miyako-Chuo Interchange Yamada Town Yahaba 106 106 Haratai Yamada Line Mount Gassan 106 Jodogahama Beach was named after a Yamada Line Observatory Yamada Bay, on the Rias Coast, is shaped Iwate Prefecture Rikuchu-Kawai th 4 quote by an 18 century Buddhist priest G Miyako-minami Interchange G like a closed purse. With its richly Reikyo, who said, “It’s just like paradise Furudate Tsugaruishi nourishing environment and gentle waves, (Jodo)!” It was formed by magma that Mount Hayachinesan the bay is well-suited for cultivating oysters. cooled and hardened 40 million years ago, 396 Omoe Peninsula Sea water entered the bay about 10,000 Shiwa Interchange then appeared above the surface of the Shiwachuo Shiwa Shiwa Town years ago. Because ships from the Mount Hayachinesan 340 24 earth and was eroded by wind and waves 456 Netherlands anchored here during the Edo Hizume Mount Junijinsan into its present shape. Hayachine 26 Toyomane period, the island of Oshima is also known Mount Yakushidake as Orandajima Island (Holland Island).
Tohoku Shinkansen Yamada Town Ishidoriya Yamada Bay MAP 4-H 28 Yamada Interchange MAP 3-H
Tohoku Expressway Ishidoriya Toyomane River 45 Horaijima Island Rikuchu-Yamada Remains of Hashino Blast Furnace 45 Hanamaki Interchange Otsuchi Town Orikasa 29 Kamaishi City Hanamaki-kuko 456 Hanamaki City Yamada This gourd-shaped island floats in Otsuchi Iwate-Funakoshi The Hashino Blast Furnace was Hanamaki Junction Iwate-Hanamaki Bay. It is made of granite and was formed Airport Yamada-minami Interchange constructed according to the instructions of during the age of the dinosaurs,about 100 H Hanamaki Airport Interchange Mount Kujirayama H the father of modern ironmaking, Takato Oyamada Tohoku Main Line Otsuchi Town million years ago. It was the model for the Nitanai Kamaishi Line Shin-Hanamaki Oshima. It is the oldest existing 4 Kamaishi Expressway Funakoshi Bay island in which the 1960’s NHK (Japan 283 western-style blast furnace in Japan. There Broadcasting Corporation) children’s TV Hanamaki 283 Tsuchizawa Namiita-Kaigan Namiita Coast are still remains of the modern steel puppet show “Hyokkori Hyotan Jima” was Hanamaki-minami Interchange Towa Interchange Tono City Otsuchi Town 30 industry, including three sets of blast set. The lighthouse destroyed during the Towa Haruyama Kirikiri 4 Chuo Community Center furnace foundation stones as well as canals 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami was 396 Otsuchi and a building labeled with an old- rebuilt in the image of the sun and an Iwaneboshi Miyamori Horaijima Island hourglass, for the safety of ships and as a 340 Otsuchi Kozuchi fashioned term for “office,” preserving the 283 Kamaishi-kita Interchange 31 light of hope for recovery. 32 scene of pre-modern industry. Ayaori 283 34 456 Tono Miyamori Iwate-Futsukamachi Unosumai 35 Murasakino 283 Remains of Hashino Kamaishi City Line MAP 3-I 283 Yamada Otsuchi Bay MAP 2~3-J~L Tatekawame Kitakami City Tohoku Shinkansen Tono Kaze-no-Oka Aozasa Ryoishi Kitakami Kashiwagidaira Arayamae Blast Furnace Fujine Kamaishi Line 107 Line Ezuriko Kamaishi-Ryoishi Interchange Yanagihara 107 Kamaishi Mine Masuzawa Paleozoic Rocks of the South Kitakami Belt Kitakami-Ezuriko Interchange 107 Miyamori Interchange 283 33 Kamaishi Mine Nebama Beach / Akita Expressway 107 45 Ofunato City, Sumita Town, Kitakami Esashi-Tase Interchange Iwate-Kamigo Rikuchu-Ohashi Kamaishi City Unozumai Rikuzentakata City, Kesennuma City
Hirakura Rokando Kamaishi Kitakami Junction 107 Kamaishi Line Kamaishi Mine had one of the largest yields Kosano Kamaishi Bay From the fossils in the strata of the Cave Matsukura 283 in Japan of magnetite, the raw material for 456 Ashigase southern Kitakami mountains (mainly in I Dosen Heita I iron, and chalcopyrite, the raw material for 4 283 Ofunato, Sumita, Rikuzentakata, and 41 Kami-Arisu Iron and Steel copper. The limestone here was formed by Kitakami-Kanegasaki Interchange 340 Rokando Interchange History Museum Kesennuma), it is known that until 200-400 accumulation of rocks in warm seas about Rokuhara million years ago, this area was a shallow 320 million years ago. The water that sea and coastal region. Because of this, Mount Goyozan springs from the mine is sold as mineral the area is highly valued for its implication Kanegasaki Toni water and is quite popular. Kanegasaki Taneyamagahara Toni Bay on the history of the Japanese archipelago. Town 42 Sumita Town 397 Mizusawa Interchange 456 Taneyamagahara 107 4 Ofunato City Sanriku Railway Yoshihama Minami-Rias Line MAP 3-K 4 Mizusawa-Esashi 107 Yoshihama Bay MAP 3-J Mizusawa 397 Paleozoic Rocks Ofunato-kita Interchange Sanriku Interchange Goishi Coast Tohoku Shinkansen Oshu City of the South 45 Kesen Gold Mine Ofunato City, Sumita Town, 456 Ofunato Interchange Sanriku Sanriku Hachinohe City Ofunato City Kitakami Belt 37 Rikuzentakata City, Kesennuma City 107 Hashikami Town 40 Kesen Horei The Goishi Coastline runs for about 5 Rikuchu-Orii 340 Okirai Bay In the Kesen district, there are many kilometers along the southeast side of the Sakari Gold Mine remains of goldmines at Tamayama and J J Matsuzaki Peninsula in Ofunato City and Mizusawa 343 Paleozoic Rocks Hirono Town Yukisawa (Rikuzentakata City), Oya and Tohoku Main Line Koishihama Tohoku Expressway Mount Hikamisan Rikuzen-Akasaki was formed by rocks that accumulated on of the South Rikuzentakata City Northern Block Shishiori (Kesennuma City), Imadeyama 4 45 the sea bed about 130 million years ago. It Ryori (Ofunato City) and along the Kesen River Kitakami Belt 43 Ryori Bay is a beautiful scenic land where the rugged- Maesawa 37 Mount Hikamisan 39 (Sumita Town). With deposits from about ness of sights such as Anatoshi-iso Rock 40 Ofunato-Goishi-kaigan Interchange Jomon period 450 million years ago, the Tamayama Gold Kesen Gold Mine Kuji City (rock with holes through it), Ranbo-ya Rikuzentakata Interchange 38 Mine is said to have sustained the golden Hiraizumi-Maesawa Interchange 343 343 relics at Kesen Channel (wild channel) and Kaminari-iwa 340 Kayooka Interchange Noda Village period of the Oshu Fujiwara clan. 343 Rock (thunder rock) complements the 37 Ofunato Line Ofunato Bay tranquility of the salty wind in the pine forest. Fudai Village 4 Shibajuku Surisawa 44 Ofunato City Museum Geibikei 37 Hiraizumi Tanohata Village Shishiori Mine Museum Central Block Hiraizumi Main Line Goishi Coast MAP 3-I Tohoku 45 36 MAP 3-J Town Mount. Hakoneyama Iwaizumi Town Rokando Cave 456 Observatory Takatamatsubara Yamanome 342 Genbikei 4 Iwanoshita Jomon period Sumita Town Orikabe 39 Rikuzentakata City
Ichinoseki Interchange Yagoshi Kesennuma Bay - relics at Kesen 284 284 Konashi Rokando Cave was carved out of limestone Ichinoseki Ichinoseki City This used to be an area where white sandy Senmaya Motoyoshi Coast area Miyako City about 320 million years ago. Up to 3,635 Rikuchu-Kanzaki Takatamatsubara beaches and green pine trees extended for Ofunato Line Niitsuki 284 K 457 Mataki K meters have so far been confirmed as its Ofunato Line 45 48 Hirota Bay two kilometers from east to west. However, total length. The giant Ten-no-Iwado 284 due to the tsunami following the earthquake Waterfall is the highlight of the cave. With Isaribi Park Yamada Town in the Pacific Ocean off the shores of 456 its 29-meter fall, it is the highest waterfall Kawasaki Kesennuma City Karakuwa Peninsula Tohoku, it was washed away, except for a located inside a cave in Japan. Fossils of Arikabe 46 45 Otsuchi Town single pine tree. The “Miraculous Lone sea lilies can also be seen here. Karakuwa Peninsula Pine” has withered and died since, but it is 342 Shimizuhara Visitors’ Center remembered as the symbol of recovery so Southern Block that the history can be passed down to Oshima Kamaishi City Hanaizumi future generations. 47 Iwaisaki Oya-Kaigan MAP 3-K Sumita Town MAP 3-K 4 Ofunato City Yushima Kesen Gold Mine 40 Legend
Karakuwa Peninsula Tohoku Main Line Rikuzentakata City Iwaisaki Wakayanagi-Kannari Interchange Base Facility Kesennuma City 346 Kesennuma City Ishikoshi Geographical & Geological Features 346 “Ogama and Hanzo” at Oreish were formed 398 The limestone of Iwaisaki includes dozens Tohoku Expressway Earthquake Disaster & Recovery Tohoku Shinkansen 45 from rocks and marbles over 200 million Kesennuma City of kinds of fossils, such as corals, from 260 L Kurikoma-kogen 342 Miyagi L years ago. A large southern tree called 398 Rinrinkan Flora & Fauna million years ago. It is one of the standard tabunoki (Machilius thunbergii) can be seen Kurihara City History & Culture areas for finding fossils from the Permian around Osaki Shrine at the southern tip of Tome City 346 Prefecture period of the Paleozoic era. Shiofukiiwa the peninsula. In the Tsunami Experience Nitta Viewpoints Rock is located at the tip of the cape. Every Tsukidate Interchange 398 342 398 Minamisanriku Town Hall at the Karakuwa Peninsula Visitors’ Tome-Towa Interchange time a wave breaks onto the shore, the Center, visitors can experience the ferocity This map used the 25,000:1 topographic map published by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), water spouts up in the air from a hole in the of nature in images and video. Umegasawa with the approval of the Director General of the GSI. (Approval No. 72-GISMAP31827, 2013 version) limestone. 4 1 2 3 4