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【2 days and 1 night】A trip to experience entire National Toramai Festival and Kamaishi city

Schedule2025.2.8 (Sat) ~ 9 (Sun)
CourseTokyo⇒Shin-Hanamaki⇒Kamaishi⇒Shin-Hanamaki⇒Tokyo
How to get there; Shinkansen or Rent car
This course provides you learnings about disaster prevention and passing down the stories of the great earthquake (in 2011), and the history of iron, as well as viewing and experiencing the "Toramai" that has been passed down through the generations in various parts of Kamaishi.

DAY 1 - 2/8 (Sat)

07:56

Tokyo Station, Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa 103 bound for Morioka (get off at Shin-Hanamaki Station)

2 hrs 43 min
10:39

Arrive at Shin-Hanamaki Station, arrange renting a car

11:00

Drive to Kamaishi
Tohoku Odan Expressway/Kamaishi Expressway

1 hr 10 min
12:10

Lunch, Tasting the luxury of Sanriku’s seafood
Kamaishi WA-NO-ZEN MIYAKAWA

5 min.
13:30

Uogashi Nigiwai Kan, “UOGASHI Terrace”

13:45

Enjoy Kamaishi at the Open Field Museum
Kamaishi Bay Fishing Boat Cruise
Kamaishi Daikanon→Kamome Island→Yoroi Island→Aoide Beach→Wanko Breakwater and about 8 other points of interest

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15:30
15 min.
15:45

Disaster Lore and Disaster Prevention learning
Inochi wo Tsunagu Miraikan (Tsunami Memorial Hall)

Stay overnight in Kamaishi
Kamaishi Accommodation

10 min.

DAY 2 - 2/9 (Sun.)

Depart from your accommodation in Kamaishi City

Please check the required time from your accommodation to the Iron History Museum
09:00

Learn about the history of the iron that built the city of Kamaishi .
Iron History Museum

09:45
10 min
09:55

Viewing Toramai performance, which is inherited in each area of Kamaishi, and guests performance who come from inside and outside of the prefecture

National Toramai Festivals

Venue: Kamaishi Civic Hall TETTO Hall A
Time: Doors open 9:30 , Start 10:00 ~ 14:00

14:00
5 minutes to exit from hall, 5 minutes to drive
14:10

Get some souvenirs from Kamaishi
Sea Plaza Kamaishi

15:00

Drive to Shin-Hanamaki Station
Kamaishi Expressway/Trans-Tohoku Odan Expressway

1 hr 10 min
16:10

Arrive at Shin-Hanamaki Station, return rent car

17:18

Shin-Hanamaki Station, Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa 112 bound for Tokyo

2 hrs 38 min
19:56

Arrive at Tokyo Station

Sanriku International Arts Festival event
【Sanriku Festival】 National Toramai Festival 2025.2.9 (Sun.)
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