On the 29th, 50,<> people visited Arahama Elementary School in Sendai City, which is a "remnant of the earthquake" that conveys the threat of tsunami from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Arahama Elementary School in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai City, is a building where the tsunami reached the second floor of a four-story school building after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In order to convey the threat and lessons learned from the tsunami, Sendai City has preserved the school building as it was at that time and opened it to the public as a relic of the earthquake for more than six years, attracting visitors from all over the country.
On the 29th, 5 fifth-grade students from Nagamachi Minami Elementary School in Sendai City visited to learn about the earthquake, and the number of visitors reached 111,50.
The elementary school students felt the threat of the earthquake by visiting facilities where traces of the tsunami remained, such as classrooms where pillars exposed by the tsunami remained intact, and fences on verandas that remained bent.
After the tour, the elementary school students received towel handkerchiefs as souvenirs for the 50,<>th visitor.
A girl who visited the tour said, "Today's tour reminded me how scary tsunamis are, and it gave me an opportunity to think about how to evacuate in the event of a disaster."
Tomohiro Tanaka, manager of the Sendai City Disaster Prevention and Environment Promotion Office, said, "I think that the fact that the number of visitors reached 50,<> shows the high level of interest in disasters and earthquakes.