Matsushima (Miyagi)

Matsushima Town Hall
Matsushima-chō ; 松島町
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Tōhoku
Prefecture :	Miyagi
Coordinates :	38 ° 23 ' N , 141 ° 4' E Coordinates: 38 ° 22 '52 " N , 141 ° 4' 8" E
Basic data
Surface:	54.04 km²
Residents :	13,468 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	249 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	04401-6
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	jaw
Flower :	Dendrobium moniliforme
town hall
Address :	Matsushima Town Hall ; 10 , Aza Machi, Takagi; Matsushima -chō, Miyagi-gun ; Miyagi 981-0215
Website URL:	http://www.town.matsushima.miyagi.jp/
Location of Matsushima's in Miyagi Prefecture

Matsushima ( Japanese 松島町 , - machi , German "pine islands") is a small town in the Japanese prefecture of Miyagi .

Attractions

Zuigan-ji ( 瑞巌寺 ), the temple founded in 828 and rebuilt in 1610, which belongs to the Rinzai direction of Zen, is one of the most famous in Tōhoku.
Godaidō ( 五大堂 ), a Buddhist prayer hall, dedicated to the "Five Enlightened Kings" ( 五大明王 , Godai myōō ), is located on an island that can be reached directly from the shore via a bridge.
The place is right on Matsushima Bay , the main attraction of the prefecture. It is a bay with around 260 pine-covered islands, 22 km northeast of Sendai . In addition to Amanohashidate and Miyajima , Matsushima is one of the three most beautiful landscapes in Japan , which has made its beaches and the nearby historical sites into corresponding strongholds of tourism. - Due to its particular beauty, Matsushima Bay has also found its way into classical Japanese literature: the poet Matsuo Bashō dedicates a separate chapter to Matsushima Bay in his travel diary Oku no Hosomichi . The place advertises with the Bashō attributed haiku "Matsushima ya / aa Matsushima ya / Matsushima ya".

Tōhoku earthquake

On March 11, 2011, the city was hit by the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. In contrast to many other coastal towns in the Tōhoku region, however, the height of the tsunami in Matsushima remained below the height of the dike.

According to the damage report by the fire and disaster control authority, 7 people in Matsushima lost their lives as a result of the disaster. 221 residential buildings were completely destroyed and 1,785 partially.

photos

Matsushima Bay
Godaidō
Chōmei-ana in Komone-jima (collapsed by the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 )

traffic

Street:
- Sanriku Highway to Sendai or Miyako
- National Road 45 to Sendai or Aomori
- National Road 346 to Sendai or Kesennuma
Train:
- JR Tōhoku main line from Matsushima , Atago or Shinainuma to Ueno or Morioka
- JR Senseki Line from Matsushima-Kaigan , Takagimachi , Teataru or Rikuzen-Tomiyama to Sendai or Ishinomaki

Matsushima Airport is located south of the city.

Neighboring cities and communities

additional

Marion Poschmann's novel Die Kieferninseln refers to the islands in the bay of Matsushima. The city itself is the final scene of the text.

Web links

Commons : Matsushima - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図 , 国土地理院 ( Kokudo Chiriin , Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, formerly: Geographical Survey Institute = GSI), www.gsi.go.jp: 地理院ホーム> 防災関連> 平成 23 年（2011年）東北地方太平洋沖地震に関する情報提供> 10 万分 1 浸水範囲概況図
The GSI publishes two maps with Matsushima, 浸水範囲概況図 12 (PDF) and 浸水範囲概況図 13 (PDF), on which the Areas flooded by the Tōhoku tsunami 2011 are drawn on the basis of evaluations of aerial photographs and satellite images, as far as possible.
Aerial photography

Individual evidence

↑ 東日本大震災図説集 . In: mainichi.jp. Mainichi Shimbun- sha, May 20, 2011, archived from the original on June 19, 2011 ; Retrieved June 19, 2011 (Japanese, overview of reported dead, missing and evacuated).
↑ Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 170 , no. 6-8 , 2013, pp. 993-1018 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-012-0511-7 . (Published online July 7, 2012).
↑ Mikio Ishiwatari, Junko Sagara: Structural Measures Against Tsunamis . In: Federica Ranghieri, Mikio Ishiwatari (Ed.): Learning from Megadisasters - Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake . World Bank Publications, Washington, DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-4648-0153-2 , Chapter 1, pp. 25–32 , doi : 10.1596 / 978-1-4648-0153-2 ( Google Books [accessed April 3, 2018]). , License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.
↑ 平成 23 年 (2011 年）東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について（第 157 報) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) fdma.go.jp ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) (PDF ) 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.

[1] 東日本大震災図説集 . In: mainichi.jp. Mainichi Shimbun- sha, May 20, 2011, archived from the original on June 19, 2011 ; Retrieved June 19, 2011 (Japanese, overview of reported dead, missing and evacuated).

[SuppasriEtAl2013_PAG170_993–1018_LL2-2] Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan . In: Pure and Applied Geophysics . tape 170 , no. 6-8 , 2013, pp. 993-1018 , doi : 10.1007 / s00024-012-0511-7 . (Published online July 7, 2012).

[Ranghieri&Ishiwatari2014_LFM_Kap1_S25-32-3] Mikio Ishiwatari, Junko Sagara: Structural Measures Against Tsunamis . In: Federica Ranghieri, Mikio Ishiwatari (Ed.): Learning from Megadisasters - Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake . World Bank Publications, Washington, DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-4648-0153-2 , Chapter 1, pp. 25–32 , doi : 10.1596 / 978-1-4648-0153-2 ( Google Books [accessed April 3, 2018]). , License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.

[FDMA_2018-03-07-4] 平成 23 年 (2011 年）東北地方太平洋沖地震（東日本大震災）について（第 157 報) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) fdma.go.jp ( Memento from March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) (PDF ) 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.