Opened in 2019, with free admission, it tells the story of the 2011 tsunami and of the reconstruction.
The museum, opened on 22 September 2019 inside the Takata-Matsubara Memorial Park, has a permanent display of the facts of the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 and of the course of the reconstruction of the Sanriku coast, with temporary exhibitions on disaster prevention.
National facility for passing on the memory of the disaster, run by Iwate Prefecture in the Takata-Matsubara Memorial Park in Rikuzentakata, the city that lost almost 1,800 inhabitants in the 2011 tsunami.
ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), closed from 29/12 to 3/1. Free admission. ‘Kiseki no Ippommatsu’ BRT stop on the former Ōfunato Line, a few minutes' walk away.
🚉 Rikuzentakata · 22 min walk
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