Shichigahama (Miyagi)

Shichigahama Town Hall
Shichigahama-machi ; 七ヶ浜町
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Tōhoku
Prefecture :	Miyagi
Coordinates :	38 ° 18 ' N , 141 ° 4' E Coordinates: 38 ° 18 '16 " N , 141 ° 3' 33" E
Basic data
Surface:	13.27 km²
Residents :	18,108 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	1365 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	04404-1
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Japanese black pine
Flower :	Nipponanthemum nipponicum
town hall
Address :	Shichigahama Town Hall ; 5 - 1 , Aza Ushiyabe, Tōgūhama; Shichigahama- machi , Miyagi-gun ; Miyagi 985-8577
Website URL:	http://www.shichigahama.com/
Location of Shichigahamas in Miyagi Prefecture

Shichigahama ( Japanese 七ヶ浜町 , - machi , dt "7 beaches.") Is a town in the district of Miyagi in the Miyagi Prefecture .

geography

Shichigahama extends over the peninsula of the same name, which is located in Sendai Bay , and from this in turn separates Matsuura Bay or its western part ( Shiogama Bay ) in the north. In front of the peninsula is the 0.15 km² island of Mahanashi-jima ( 馬放島 ), which has been uninhabited since 1958. This in turn is surrounded by around 10 smaller islets. To the east of the peninsula are reefs with other islets. The Matsushima group of islands extends to the northeast, but does not belong to the municipality.

Shichigahama is about 15 kilometers from the city of Sendai, the largest city of Tōhoku . Most of Shichigahama's houses were built within a radius of about three miles.

history

On April 1, 1889, the village of Shichigahama ( 七ヶ浜村 , - mura ) was founded. The name Shichigahama ("Seven Beaches") comes from the 7 beach villages from which the community was formed. These are clockwise Yokasakihama ( 代ヶ崎浜 ), Yoshidahama ( 吉田浜 ), Hanabuchihama ( 花渕浜 ), Shōbutahama ( 菖蒲田浜 , dt. " Iris field beach"), Matsugahama ( 松ヶ浜 , dama . "Pines beach") ( 湊浜 , dt. "Harbor beach") and Tōgūhama ( 東宮 d , dt. "East shrine beach").

In the same year, the establishment of the foreign summer resort Takayama ( 高山外国人避暑地 , Takayama gaikokujin hisochi ). American missionaries built their mansions there, and it was customary to take a two-month summer vacation each year. Along with Karuizawa and Lake Nojiri in Shinano, it was one of the three big summer resorts for foreigners. This health resort is now the International Takayama Village ( 高山国際村 , Takayama kokusai mura ).

On January 1, 1959, he was appointed Machi.

On March 11, 2011, the city was hit by the Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. About 46 percent of the city was flooded by the tsunami. According to the damage report by the fire and disaster control authority, 79 people in Shichigahama lost their lives as a result of the disaster, while 2 remained missing. 674 residential buildings were completely destroyed and 650 others were partially destroyed.

Attractions

Haiden (prayer hall) of the Hanabushi shrine

Shōbutahama seaside resort ( 菖蒲田浜海水浴場 , Shōbutahama kaisui yokujō )
Takayama International Village
Daigigakoi- Køkkenmøddinger ( 大木囲貝塚 , Daigigakoi kaizuka )
Hanabushi Shrine ( 鼻節神社 , Hanabushi-jinja )

traffic

The Tagajō - Shichigahama section of Prefecture Road 58 runs through Shichigahama . The city has no connection to the rail network.

education

Shichigahama is home to the Shiomi Municipal Elementary School ( 七ヶ浜町立汐見小学校 ), the Ekiraku Municipal Elementary School ( 七ヶ浜町立亦楽小学校 ) and the Matsugahama Municipal Elementary School ( 七ヶ浜町立松ヶ浜浜小学校 ), the Municipal Middle School and the Shichigahama School Kōyō Middle School ( 七ヶ浜町立向洋中学校 ). The Ekiraku Primary School and the Shichigahama Middle School take part as frontier schools in a MEXT project to increase learning ability.

sons and daughters of the town

Motoi Ōkoshi (* 1971), Japanese baseball player

Jintoku Satō (* 1971), Japanese welterweight boxer

Town twinning

Sister city is since October 3, 1990 Plymouth in Massachusetts .

Neighboring cities and communities

Web links

Commons : Shichigahama (Miyagi) - collection of images, 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 published here a map with Shichigahama ( 浸水範囲概況図13 (PDF)) on which the 2011 flooded areas are drawn on the basis of reports of aerial photographs and satellite images from the Tōhoku tsunami, as far as was possible.

Individual evidence

↑ Hamagiku = Nipponanthemum nipponicum , see ハマギク. Retrieved April 25, 2009 .
↑ 後藤雄二 : 馬放島 . In: 日本大百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 30, 2018 (Japanese).
↑ ^a ^b Daisuke Sato, Hiroshi Okumura, Kazuko Sasaki, Mikio Ishiwatari, International Recovery Platform: Reconstruction in the Tohoku Area . 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 , chap. 34 , p. 317–322 , doi : 10.1596 / 978-1-4648-0153-2 ( work accessible online on Google Books [accessed April 3, 2018]). , License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.
↑ 学院史編纂室便り No.16. Kwansei Gakuin University , November 20, 2002, accessed August 13, 2016 (Japanese).
↑ 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).
↑ 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 of March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.

[1] Hamagiku = Nipponanthemum nipponicum , see ハマギク. Retrieved April 25, 2009 .

[2] 後藤雄二 : 馬放島 . In: 日本大百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 30, 2018 (Japanese).

[Ranghieri&Ishiwatari2014_LFM_Kap34_317-322-3] Daisuke Sato, Hiroshi Okumura, Kazuko Sasaki, Mikio Ishiwatari, International Recovery Platform: Reconstruction in the Tohoku Area . 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 , chap. 34 , p. 317–322 , doi : 10.1596 / 978-1-4648-0153-2 ( work accessible online on Google Books [accessed April 3, 2018]). , License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.

[4] 学院史編纂室便り No.16. Kwansei Gakuin University , November 20, 2002, accessed August 13, 2016 (Japanese).

[5] 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_LL2-6] 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).

[FDMA_2018-03-07-7] 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 of March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総務省消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.