My Feeling about Onagawa’s Devastation --- 3/28 Report #3

April 2, 2011

1.      This is the road from Onagawa Bypass to Marine Pal.  The SDF cleared the road up to this point.

2. I photographed the area from Onagawa Hospital to Town Hall.  (Top Photo on 3/16. Bottom Photo on 3/28.)
Water has receded significantly and the roads have been cleared.  Perhaps it’s the weather, too; how different the area became better in only 13 days!  (Click on the picture for enlarged one.)

3. Around Marusho Hotel (Top Photo on 3/16. Bottom Photo on3/28.)
Although the angles from which the photos were taken were different, certainly the impression that I felt was quite different.  I felt that the town has become better in two weeks.

4. The road from former Onagawa Kindergarten to Bypass.  A house is tilted and falling. The former kindergarten was saved.

5. Pictures taken from Onagawa Hospital.  In the front, Super Onmaeya and Marusho Hotel and in the back Sasaki Portrait Studio are seen.
The top photo is from the one posted to the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) around March 14.  The middle photo is taken on March 16.  Unlike the winter scenery of the Tsugaru Channel, this is the scene of Onagawa devastated by the tsunami.  It is somewhat unclear whether it was a high tide or the water did not recede.  In the front, there you can see the Marui warehouse tilted 90 degrees and fallen sideways.  I could not believe that the building had been turned upside down from the bottom!  The bottom photo is taken in the late afternoon of March 28.  The afternoon sun was embracing Onagawa warmly.