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Ice Aquarium

At minus 20 degrees inside, some 600 fish landed at Kesennuma port — bonito, saury and more — are on display.

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Kura-no-Machimami (the Storehouse Townscape)

Murata was a hub on the routes to Edo and Kyoto, prospering as a collecting point for safflower and other goods. The merchants' storehouses remain.

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Ramen

Soy, miso, salt, dried sardine, iekei, tsukemen — the range is wide. Some shops offer seasonal bowls with seri or oysters.

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Tenpyō Roman-kan

Displays on the history of gold mining, with ceramic panel paintings by Ikuo Hirayama. You can pan for gold dust the old way.

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Iwaizaki

A cape at Hashikami in Kesennuma, a geosite of the Sanriku Geopark, where the sea blows up through cracks in eroded limestone.

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Yagiyama Zoological Park Fujisaki-no-Mori

Some 540 animals of 116 species, endangered ones among them, shown in settings close to their habitats.

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Sanbongi Himawari-no-Oka (the Sunflower Hill)

On six hectares of hillside, about two million rape flowers in spring and some 420,000 sunflowers in summer.

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Ojima and Togetsukyo Bridge

An island reached by the Togetsu bridge. Buddhist images and posthumous names are carved into mossy grottoes, said to have been a training ground for …

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Ishinomori Shōtarō Furusato Kinenkan

Shotaro Ishinomori was born in Ishinomori, Nakada. His works and possessions are shown here, with his birthplace close by.

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Bukeyashiki

A samurai residence of the Katakura retainers. A prefectural cultural property, its plain construction shows how warriors of the time lived.

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Mō Land Motoyoshi

Meet rabbits and ponies on a wide pasture. You can also try making ice cream, butter and sausage.

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Izunuma and Uchinuma Lotus

In summer lotus flowers cover the whole marsh. A lotus festival is timed to the bloom, and small boats slip between the flowers.

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Kesennuma Shark Museum

Ten minutes by car from Kesennuma Station, at the port that lands more shark than any other in Japan.

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秋保温泉

An old spring counted, with Nozawa and Bessho, among Japan's three imperial baths. In the domain era the Date family had their bathhouse here.

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Ōgama

Jagged ria coast and strange rocks. The marble column called Oreishi, rising from the sea, is the signature view of Sanriku Fukko National Park.

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Fukuurajima

An island reached by the Fukuura bridge. The 252-metre vermilion bridge is called the meeting bridge. Over 300 plant species grow wild on the island.

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Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Matsuri

A festival in central Ishinomaki, with a parade of portable shrines and a drum and fife corps, closing with some 6,000 fireworks.

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Sushi

Shiogama is one of Japan's leading ports for fresh tuna. Bigeye from early autumn to winter is graded as Sanriku Shiogama Higashimono.

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Mābō yakisoba

Chinese noodles seared on the surface and tossed with spicy mapo tofu. It came out of a Chinese restaurant's staff meals in the 1970s.

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旧有備館

Where the sons of Iwadeyama Date retainers studied in the Edo period. The main house, the retirement home of the second lord Munetoshi, remains.

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Izu-numa

More swans and geese arrive here than anywhere in Japan. Registered under the Ramsar Convention in 1985 and named a national natural monument in 1967.

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輪王寺

A temple that moved to this site when Masamune entered Sendai. Its stroll garden around a pond has irises and water lilies with a three-storey pagoda …

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地底の森ミュージアム

The Tomizawa site, preserved and shown exactly as excavated, with the ice-age forest reconstructed outdoors.

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Zaō Rakunō Center

A visitor farm on the flank of Zao, west of Togatta Onsen, selling dairy goods and letting you make them.