Jodogahama

Today we ventured out to Jodogahama Beach. After a short train ride to Morioka Eki, we hopped on a bus for a little over 2 hours, traveled over the mountains to Miyako, then caught a 15-minute local bus out to Jodogahama. It was so worth it!!! The coast is even more beautiful in person than in the photos.

We couldn't get tickets for the children's Pokemon train, but Catie had a big hug for Pikachu anyway.

It's rice harvesting time in Tohoku, so these cool rice drying racks are everywhere!

There was a taiko (drum & flute) festival set up right on the beach. It was neat to watch, but the sounds of distant drumming were a little disconcerting as we were hiking.

You can see the level of the 2011 tsunami on this visitors center- look at the lines painted on the front right corner of the building, just over the Coke banners. SCARY.

We followed this path along the coast for a while, before hiking up onto 2 of the headlands. Catie loved getting splashed by the waves as they broke against the wall.

There were wild daisies all over the cliffs!

Hiking along one of the headlands

The awesome views from the top!

View from the 2nd headland

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. resting a bit with some coloring in the kids section of the nature center, before we caught the train home.