Rikuzentakata, Iwate / 東日本大震災津波伝承館 いわてTSUNAMIメモリアル
Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum
A free museum opened in 2019 in the Takata-Matsubara memorial park to pass on the facts and lessons of the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami and show the recovery; nearby stands the "miracle pine" that survived.
Last official check
25 Sept 2026
Traveler reports
0
Reports open in Phase 2
Next scheduled check
24 Dec 2026
Decide before you go
A short summary made from the official facts below. Check the rows for details.
- Getting there
- Car
- Admission
- Free entry
- Closing days
- Has closing days (see below)
Before you go
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- Opening hours
9:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30).
Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site- Closed
Closed December 29 - January 3, and occasionally for maintenance.
Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site- Admission
Free.
Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site- Getting there
7 min by car from Rikuzentakata-Osabe IC, or 75 min from Ichinoseki IC.
Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site- Not yet confirmed
Parking, Payment, Accessibility
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Address: Rikuzentakata, Iwate (Japanese address: 岩手県陸前高田市気仙町土手影180 高田松原津波復興祈念公園内)
Official site: https://iwatetabi.jp/spots/60667/
Location
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Nearby spots
Photo: Morio / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized)Goishi CoastIwate10 km away (straight line)- No photo yetKesennuma Umi-no-Ichi (seafood market and Shark Museum)Miyagi13 km away (straight line)
Photo: Ty19080914 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Rias Ark Museum of ArtMiyagi16 km away (straight line)
Distances are straight-line distances, not travel distances. Some locations are approximate, so treat these distances as a rough guide.
Crowds
- Not yet confirmed
Crowd level, Best time to visit, Peak time, Busiest days, Busiest season
no official source yet, and not enough traveler reports.
- Latest traveler report
- None yet
Traveler crowd data by time of day appears after 5 traveler reports (0 so far).
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Visiting respectfully
- Local etiquetteThe Takata-Matsubara shore once had tens of thousands of pines over 2 km, some over 300 years old, swept away in the tsunami. The one pine that survived is preserved as a monument and symbol of recovery.Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
Verification log
- 25 Sept 2026First check · Tourism board · https://iwatetabi.jp/spots/60667/Hours, closing days, access, address and coordinates read from a tourism organization's site.