~1h from Taro Stn — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Three Cretaceous sea stacks — the tallest 50 meters — standing where the 2011 wave passed. Twenty minutes on foot from Taro station.
Three sea stacks in a row, the largest about fifty metres, standing off a beach north of the town. One has a natural arch worn through it. They are a nationally designated Natural Monument and, unlike Jodogahama, you usually have them to yourself.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~1.5hWhite rhyolite spires over water so clear the monks called it Paradise — the single image of the Sanriku coast, ten minutes from your berth..
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Do · ~30minTwenty minutes in a tiny sappa skiff into a cove that glows cobalt — no reservations, sea decides.
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Eat · ~45minMiyako’s own invention: the day’s uni and roe served in a milk bottle you pour over rice yourself — born from how fishermen carried raw uni to market..
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