Miracle Pine — Attraction in Rikuzen-Takata

There have been lots of criticism on spending much budget on preserving the miracle pine tree. Due to the tree was dead in result, and budgets are always insufficient, the town might want to put much effort on rebuilding their life-based places, not constructing "showing" monument. I am still not sure if the tree really gives the people in Rikuzentakata power and hope. Nonetheless, the park is well constructed, and the exhibition of the memorial museum tells the appropriateness of the way Japanese government tries to prepare for the Tsunami - closing all the beaches by constructing high bank and not allowing people living close to coastlines of Tohoku area which is long as several hundred kilometers -, and you can think what you would decide as a directly involved person. Coming back to the tree, you can regard it as a part...

Damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami The only miraculous lone pine that survived in Takada Matsubara. After that, it withers due to damage from seawater. It was preserved by Rikuzentakata City as a symbol of requiem, hope, and recovery. It is said that the Rikuzentakata Youth Hostel on the seaside escaped a direct hit from the tsunami, and the pine grove survived. The youth hostel is also left together in a collapsed state. An embankment is built in the back, and you can see the sea from above. Below is a pine forest that was planted to regenerate a new...

It is absolutely worth it to come to the pine and pay your respects to the 1800 people who were lost in this city in 2011 and the pine forest that was reduced from 70,000 to just this one. I am glad that this will be preserved and that their is English signage explaining it. While you're in the area, see the old junior high school where the students evacuated safely, the old and new water gates to keep the sea out, and take a rest at the cute little cafe which serves delicious soy sauce (yes,...