Misawa MAP 3-A 1 2 3 4 MAP 3-A 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 Sanriku Fukko National Park 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