Sanriku-Coast in Summer Itinerary | Japanese Countryside Travel Notes

Introduction

Sanriku benefited from the sea a lot and suffered Tsunami disasters many times. Each time, a stone monument was set up at the highest point where the tsunami reached, and lessons remained for individuals to run away in isolation, regardless of their families, it is said ‘Tendenko’.
Sanriku is still on the way of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and the typhoon in 2019 caused great damage again on the Sanriku Railway, which was originally built to deliver goods to areas isolated due to disasters and is now a symbol of recovery. Five days after the earthquake in 2011, a train ran some sections miraculously left to encourage people along the line.
In Sanriku, not only the sea is noticed, but Japan’s oldest crust torn from the Eurasian continent by plate movement remains and gives mountain blessing.
Let’s travel while feeling the blessings and threats of nature and the robustness of the people who live there.

Detail

1st day (Trail day)

11:26 arrival at Hachinohe station* by Tohoku-Shinkansen(JR High speed railway) and change train to Hachinohe line

12:02 get off at Same (not the ‘same’ but shark in the meaning) station and walk on Tanesashi Coast with abundant landscape changes for 4 hours, which is a starting point of ‘Michinoku Coastal Trail’ continuing 1000km from there to the south

16:06 get on a train at Tanesashi-kaigan station to go back to Hachinohe*

*)How about taking public bath after walking exhausted. There are a lot of bathes opening in the morning around Hachinohe harbor, so the sailors can always take a bath after coming back on a long trip.

2nd day (Amachan day)

05:00 Super huge market* appears on the quay from too early morning(before dawn) with procuring breakfast there

*)Tatehana-Ganpeki market open only on Sunday 15min near Mutsu-Minato station but another market with super locals in front of the station open except Sunday.