04606 ／ みなみさんりくちょう
Miyagi Prefecture 本吉郡An ichthyosaur bears the name Utatsu.
Utatsusaurus, Utatsu Tatesaki01 ／ Gate and bell tower
The gate of Daioji Temple in Tajiribatake, Shizugawa. The town's materials call it one of the oldest buildings still standing in the town. It is a town-designated building, and the town introduces its donor, Yamauchi Jinnojo, as a distinguished figure in the sericulture of the Date domain.
02 ／ Giant cedar
A prefectural Natural Monument (1955). The town records a height of about 42 m and an age said to exceed 800 years. It is said that when a large bridge was built over the Hirose River in front of Sendai Castle's main gate, cedars from this shrine were felled, lashed into rafts and carried by sea.
03 ／ Tsubakijima
An island of about 5 hectares. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes a forest close to a pure stand, valued as the northern limit of natural tabu growth on the Pacific coast. It is a national Natural Monument (1966). Entering the island requires consulting the town's board of education.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
On the Miyagi Kotsu timetable for the Sendai-Kesennuma/Minamisanriku highway bus, revised in April 2025, the bus leaving the front of Sendai Station at 10:50 reaches the Michi-no-Eki Sansan Minamisanriku roadside station at 12:29 with no change. All five departures from Sendai take 99 minutes and run every day.
−1.2% since 2015
18,645 → 12,225
38.45km² of it habitable
2024
2.9 people per household
2020
4.9 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 宮城交通（ミヤコーバス気仙沼営業所が運行）の高速バス『仙台－気仙沼・南三陸（自由乗車制）』の時刻表（ページ表記『2025年4月1日改正』）。下り『気仙沼行き 全日』の列：仙台駅前（宮交仙台高速バスセンター40番のりば〈広瀬通〉）10:50発→道の駅さんさん南三陸 12:29着＝99分。同じ列の14:10→15:49・15:15→16:54・17:20→18:59・19:25→21:04もすべて99分で、『全日』（毎日運転）。『予約制ではありません。乗車定員制です』と注記。逆向き（仙台行き）は道の駅さんさん南三陸7:03発→仙台駅前8:46着ほか103分 (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
17.8km
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