Magnificent nature experience Sights in the national park Sanriku Fukko Ajishima Island National Park The Aji Shirahama beach with shoal water Oshika Gobansho Park is famous for its transparency of the water in the Tohoku region and very popular in The park has great views and even the summer. Sendai Domain in the Edo era had taken ▪Getting to the pier an advantage to have a lookout station By train: 15 minutes by Miyako Bus’ City Line there in preparation for the invasion of bound for Yamashita from JR Ishinomaki Station. the "Tosen" from China. Off at the stop “Ajishima Line Mae.” It’s a perfect spot for a 360-degree By car: 20 minutes from the Ishinomaki Kanan 青森県 panoramic view of the Oshika Peninsula 三 陸 復 興 国Interchange, 立 公 Sanriku 園 Expressway Kinkasan Island ▪From the pier to Ajishima: and the Kinkasan Island. 60 minutes by the Ajishima line (1,340 yen, one ▪Getting here 秋田県 way) By car: 90 minutes from the Ishinomaki 岩手県 ▪Contact us Regional Development Division, Kanan Interchange, Sanriku Expressway Oshika General Branch Office, Ishinomaki City ▪Contact us 編 入 区 域 TEL: 0225-45-2114 MAP P19 C-5 TEL：0225-45-2114 MAP P19 D-4 山形県 宮城県 福島県 Tashirojima Island MAP P19 C-4 Tashirojima Island is referred to as the "Cat Island" as it’s home to many cats. he Kinkasan Island, a spirit island located off the Oshika Peninsula, is known as one of the three In the past, which is It’s also said that most sacred places in To-oh (Three Mountains of Dewa and Mount Osore are the other two). in the old days cats’ behavior told you Oshika Family Village Auto Campground T whether getting a great catch of fish or The Koganeyama Shirine in the island, built with enshrining Kanayama-hikonokami and Kanayama- Facing with the Kinkasan Island, this not, and no wonder there is even the himenokami who govern gold and silver treasures, has been worshiped by adherents for hundreds of camping facility is in a great location. years, and also had been highly regarded by the Date clan of the Sendai Domain. Respected as a spirit "Cat Shrine" where cats are enshrined ▪Fees Campsite: From 3,000 yen ; Cabin island, it has remained untouched with a total ban of cutting trees and hunting for a long time. There in the island. building: From 15,000 yen ▪Getting here are wild deer and monkeys around in natural beech and zelkova forests from ancient times. Chosen as ▪Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for Getting to the pier: Same as the way to December to March (except for peak period) one of "aroma landscapes 100," the smell of trees in the sea breeze provokes a feeling of the nature Ajishima. ▪Getting here breathing and brings us comfort and peace to be surrounded by. On March 31, 2015, the "Minami Pier to Tashirojima: 50 minutes by Ajishima By car: 90 minutes from the Ishinomaki Sanriku Kinkasan National Park," including this Kinkasan Island, has become a part of the "Sanriku Line ferry (1,230 yen, one way) Kanan Interchange, Sanriku Expressway ▪Contact us Regional Development Division, Fukko National Park." Contact us Oshika Family Village Auto Oshika General Branch Office, Ishinomaki Campground TEL: 0225-45-3420 City TEL：0225-95-1111 MAP P19 D-4 Kinkasan Koganeyama Shrine Kamiwarisaki Nature Park Traditional In the old days, when a whale washed ashore and two conflicted villages had festivals a fight over the ownership at night, the cape groaned thunderously and Hatsumi Taisai Festival cracked into two. Legend has it that people thought it as a judgment the God had made and then the conflict Dedication of the Ryujin Shinroku Antlers-cutting (Dragon) Festival, Dragon was resolved. It’s a scenic spot with Festival beautiful waves against the sheer cliff. (Snake) dance ▪Getting here The Hatsumi Taisai festival is a highlight of the Koganeyama Shrine By car: 40 minutes from the annual events of the Koganeyama Shrine in In this heroic event, around 30 male deer at Monoutsuyama Interchange, Sanriku Kinkasan, and the shrine has the busiest time of Ever since the Koganeyama Shrine in the Kinkasan Although the festival was discontinued for a the site of the shrine are caught by happi- Expressway the year. It takes place for seven days since the Island was built about 1,250 years ago, it has been Meiji government policy of separating Shinto and coated beaters and have their antlers cut Contact us Regional Development first day of the snake in the month of the snake worshiped as the only god of gold and production Buddhism, it has been revived after the discovery of off by the priests. This can be seen in Japan Division, Kitakami General Branch in associated with Saravasti’s messenger. On since ancient times, as well as a god of good luck and the stone monuments of "Eight major Ryuojins" under only at the Kasuga Shrine in Nara and here Office, Ishinomaki City Sunday during the festival, a crowd of people fortune. It is said that there would be no worries about the sea in 1983. In the "Dragon (Snake) dance," a TEL: 0225-67-2114 MAP P19 D-1 come to see a portable shrine (Mikoshi) carried in the Kinkasan. money for the rest of your life if you made visits and dragon, which is 20 meter long and weights 100 kg, by parishioners (Ujikoshu) traveling from the prayed for three consecutive years. is manipulated by ten snake handlers (Jashu) and main hall to the pier, followed by a lively queue dances like a live dragon. This is the most dynamic of dressed-up children and the seven gods of festival among all the Koganeyama Shrine has. 11 good fortune. 12 State of the art fish market with advanced Facilities Safe and secure market Management office to watch hygiene management management—Controlling the market—from unloading visitors and vehicles at the to shipping gate - Making the market management status available to When entering the loading buildings, the hand wash the public from visitors’ aisle and the training room and shoes cleaning process must be thoroughly - Supervised with installed video recording cameras Ishinomaki Department, throughout the completed, and the management does not allow those who do not have certain IDs authorized to enter. market Visitors’ - Available as a aisle refuge in case of Ishinomaki City Regional earthquake Sanitary Hand wash, Entering Fish Market entrance boots cleaning the loading house Entering Washing Loading Use of clean seawater— various kinds of water by Hygienic loading house usage buildings—The largest - Clean water, seawater with ultraviolet disinfection, closed-type wholesale germicidal electrolytic seawater, and sea ice are market in Japan available in the loading house and the landing space, - The loading house is a chosen by use. "closed-type facility," usually - Drainage from the loading house does not discharge enclosed by the doors and directly into the sea but goes through the waste water walls, and opens the entrance treatment systems to keep seawater clean. when necessary. - Protected from birds and animals, and dust free - Electric forklifts with no exhaust emission are used - No exhaust gas damage to Seawater Water supply the products treatment systems line in the building ew "Ishinomaki Fish Market" has the administration building Not to increase, not to bring in, and not to add 1 2 and three buildings of the loading facilities that meet with the N the source of pollution Seawater intake hygiene standards at level 3 mandated by the Fisheries Agency. Entrance from outside The roof of a loading building is 876 meter long, and the area size -To keep seafood fresh, clean water and ice are available in the management is 1.4 times larger now. entire market. the port -In the limited-access facilities with a control of visitors and vehicles, only authorized people are admitted to the market. Seawater intake system Entrance management Seawater is taken from outside the port and provided to the The management system keeps the record of every visitor Radiation measurement and laboratory facilities to make electrolytic seawater and sea ice after filtration wearing clean cloths and going through the prescribed before being used in the loading house and the landing space. handwashing and shoes cleaning process. Ice making building-1 Drainage treatment system Truck scale Ice making building-2 Cold seawater building 3 4 2 Entrance management Traffic line Administration Video recording Closed-type building Bidding room Bidding equipment loading house room Refrigerators Central Drainage treatment system bidding room Bidding Storage room Offshore and inshore building small-sized bottom Farming Sample car Fixed net Purse seine bonito Overseas purse Entrance gate, car wash Washing trawling zone zone parking zone zone seine bonito zone Video recording monitor Inside of the loading house Bidding room 3 Video recording equipment 4 Inside of the loading house In order to watch hygienic operations of the fish market, many Newly equipped with lighting windows on the roof, the floor Live fish zone 7-meter cameras are equipped to record the actions in the doorways and drying system by roof fans, and bird nets at the entrance, it is quay Seawater inside of the buildings. now far from a conventional type of facility. intake system Ishinomaki Port 1 Seawater intake from outside the port Ishinomaki Fishing Port 13 14 A wide variety of processed seafood products from the rich volume of catches Kinka Saba (mackerel) Since the apprearance in a TV culinary program, the Kinka mackerel has skyrocketed in popularity. This name is exclusively given to large-sized chub mackerel with rich fat, landed in the Ishinomaki Port.