AreaMatsushima Bay
Higashi-Matsushima 3.11 Disaster Recovery Memorial Museum
東松島市震災復興伝承館 | Higashi-Matsushima 3.11 Disaster Recovery Memorial Museum
Train station ruins stand as a memorial to the tsunami
Photo by Higashi-Matsushima City
AreaMatsushima Bay
東松島市震災復興伝承館 | Higashi-Matsushima 3.11 Disaster Recovery Memorial Museum
Train station ruins stand as a memorial to the tsunami
Photo by Higashi-Matsushima City
Photo by Higashi-Matsushima City
Photo by Higashi-Matsushima City
Photo by Higashi-Matsushima City
Nobiru Station was one among a just handful of structures that remained even partially standing after the 2011 tsunami swept through the Nobiru area. A blue line high up the side of the building marks the height of the tsunami. Part of the former train station has been converted into a museum and community space memorializing the tsunami. The facility commemorates the more than five hundred lives lost, and is a place where survivors can come share their stories. The small museum features a gallery of photographs, video archives of pre-and post- 3.11 Higashi-Matsushima, an outdoor memorial park, and artifacts such as a destroyed JR ticket machine.
The convenience store inside this former train station has since reopened and is the only one to service the area.
WEBSITEhttp://www.city.higashimatsushima.miyagi.jp/index.cfm/19,0,64,html
Matsushima Bay
ADDRESS
56-36 Kitayokei, Nobiru, Higashimatsushima, Miyagi-ken
ACCESS BY PUBLIC TRANSIT
20-min. walk from Nobiru Station (Senseki-Tohoku Line, Senseki Line)
ADMISSION
Free
LANGUAGES
Japanese only
HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE
Yes
HOURS
9:00–17:00
CLOSED DAYS
Every third Wednesday
Dec 29–Jan 3
PHONE
0225-86-2985