Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum

**Free admission.** The prefecture built it as a public record rather than an attraction, and there is no charge. **Walk out to the Miracle Pine.** One tree survived from a forest of about seventy thousand and is preserved in the same park. Seeing the museum and then the tree is the intended sequence. **It covers more than 2011.** 1896, 1933 and 1960 are all here. The repetition is the point the museum is making about this coast. **Storyteller sessions run separately.** Local guide organisations in Rikuzentakata run tours led by people who lived through it; they are booked through the tourism association, not the museum. **The BRT gets you here.** The Ofunato Line runs as a bus rapid transit route since the railway was not rebuilt, and the stop is named for the pine.