To Iwate Prefecture: By airplane To Aomori ■Sapporo (Shin-Chitose) → Iwate-Hanamaki: JAL Hachinohe ■Nagoya (Komaki) → Iwate-Hanamaki: FDA Hachinohe IC ■Osaka (Itami) → Iwate-Hanamaki: JAL Hachinohe JCT JR ■Fukuoka → Iwate-Hanamaki: JAL Hachinohe Line Hirono-cho To Iwate Prefecture: By train 395 Ninohe 45 ■Sapporo → via Muroran-Honsen Line → Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto → Hokkaido / Tohoku-Shinkansen → Morioka (or Ninohe, Hachinohe) IGR Kuji Kosode-Kaigan ■Tokyo → Tohoku Shinkansen → Iwate Galaxy Railway 281 Kuji City Morioka (or Ichinoseki, Shin-Hanamaki, Ninohe, Hachinohe) Ashiro JCT Tohoku Noda-mura Shinkansen Anmoura- no-Taki To Sanriku: Highway Express Overnight Bus (reservations required) Fudai-mura Kita- Iwate Numa Yamasaki ■To Kuji kunai 340 Tanohata- Unosu- Iwate Kizuna (Northern Iwate Transportation Bus, Fujikyuko Bus) mura Dangai Tamachi Station entrance → Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit → Kuji Station 455 Moshi- Towada-Hachimantai Ryusendo Kaigan ■To Miyako National Park Iwaizumi-cho E45 Mazaki Beam 1 (Haneda Keikyu Bus, Northern Iwate Transportation Bus) Morioka Yokohama Station East Exit → Miyako Station → Michi-no-Eki Yamada 46 Northern Iwate Sannoiwa 106 Express Bus ■To Ofunato, Kamaishi Miyako jodoga- Morioka City hama Kesen Liner (Iwateken Kotsu) To Akita IC JR 106 4 Miyako Ikebukuro Station West Exit → Sakari, Sanria SC (Ofunato) → Yamada E45 Line Kamaishi Station Yamada- Mt. Hayachine 340 Todogasaki ■ To Tono, Kamaishi machi Mt. Hayachine Quasi- Tono, Kamaishi (Iwateken Kotsu, Kokusai Kogyo) Iwate-Hanamaki Airport National Park Otsuchi-cho Ikebukuro Station West Exit → Tono Station → Hanamaki JCT Shin Hanamaki Hashino IronMining and Smelting Site Kamaishi Station → Otsuchi Bypass → Michi-no-Eki Yamada JR Kamaishi Line Kamaishi Mine Site Tono Kamaishi 107 E46 Ohakozaki From within Iwate Prefecture 107 City Miyamamori IC (Shinkansen Stations, Airports, Expressway IC) to Sanriku Akita Kitakami Kamaishi Kitakami E45 ■To Kuji Station, Kita-Rias Line Expressway JCT Ofunato Train: Hachinohe Station → JR Hachinohe Line → Kuji Station 107 Mizusawa IC 397 City Bus: Ninohe Station → "Swallow" JR Bus → Kuji Station Front Mizusawa- 397 Esashi 45 Car: Kunohe IC, Tohoku Expressway → Kuji City Sakari Sanriku Fukko National Park Kurikoma Quasi- Rikuzen-Takata City ■ To Miyako Station, Kita-Rias Line National Park Goishi-Kaigan Train: Morioka Station → JR Yamada Line → Miyako Station 343 Tohoku Rikuzen-Takata Bus: Morioka Station → 106 Express Bus, (Northern Iwate Trams portation, Inc.) → Expressway Miyako Station JR Kesennuma Ichinoseki 284 Ofunato Line Car: Moriokaminami IC, Tohoku Expressway → via National Road 106 → Miyako City ■To Kamaishi Station, Minami-Rias Line Train: Shin-Hanamaki Station → JR Kamaishi Line → Kamaishi Station Major sightseeing spots Car: Hanamaki IC, Tohoku Expressway → via Kamaishi Expressway → Kamaishi City To Sendai ■To Sakari Station, Minami-Rias Line (*Ofunato City) Train and Line Bus: Ichinoseki Station → JR Ofunato Line → Kesennuma Station → JR Ofunato Line Bus → Sakari Station Bus: Ichinoseki Station Front → Ichinoseki Ofunato Line, Iwateken Kotsu → Sakari Station Car: Mizusawa IC, Tohoku Expressway → via National Road 397 Line, 107 Line → Sakari Station.