~2h with the railway — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
The town that built a 10-meter X-wall over 45 years, watched the 2011 sea overtop it, and rebuilt higher. The most honest 2011 site on the coast — guided “Learning Disaster” tours need 3 days’ notice.
Taro built a ten-metre seawall shaped like an X, the largest in Japan, after tsunamis in 1896 and 1933. In March 2011 the wave came over it. The town has deliberately preserved a broken section and a gutted hotel as a memorial, and guides who survived it will walk you through.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
15 minutes each way is the honest figure for sanriku rly ¥460, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 3 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
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.
4 hr 30 min for bothFree, well-built exhibits on how the rias coast works — ten minutes here makes everything you see afterward make sense.
See the detail → 4 hr 45 min for bothMiyako’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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4 hr 45 min for bothThe rias bays grow Japan’s sweetest summer urchin, and cruise season lands exactly on it — have it in the bin-don, on rice, or straight..
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