Located about 10 minutes by car inland from JR Iwanuma Station, this ancient shrine is dedicated to dragons and snakes, which are considered the embodiments of water gods and widely worshipped as guardian deities of wealth, vitality, and livelihood. When you pass through the torii gate, there is a large wisteria trellis, and the garden is known for its beautiful peonies and azaleas. A flower festival and annual festival are held every year from early to mid-May when these flowers are in full bloom and the area becomes very lively.
Lined up on the south side of the shrine are stones with snake patterns that are completely natural. It is said that if one of these stones catches your attention and you choose it intuitively and stroke the pattern with your hand or wallet, your financial fortune will improve.
A facility built in the outer garden of the shrine—Sando Terrace—has won awards for its architectural design reminiscent of a snake’s body. It features a rest area, souvenir shop, restaurant, and café terrace popular with visitors.

Harako meshi is a regional dish of Watari Town and Yamamoto Town, consisting of rice cooked in a broth of simmered autumn salmon, topped with salmon meat and roe (ikura). The dish is well-known for its delicious taste in Miyagi Prefecture. In its place of origin—the Arahama area of Watari Town—the dish is familiar, home-style cooking. Many restaurants in Watari Town and Yamamoto Town serve it from early September to early December, when it is in season.

The Nakahama Elementary School has been preserved as it was at the time of the disaster, serving as the only earthquake memorial in the southern part of the prefecture.
The school building stands 400 meters from the coastline. Shortly after the earthquake, 90 people, including students and local residents who had evacuated to the school, were inside the building. As the arrival time of the expected tsunami approached, the principal chose to evacuate everyone to the rooftop of the school building rather than moving everyone inland to a designated evacuation center. The tsunami nearly reached the second-floor ceiling, isolating Nakahama Elementary School in the tsunami sea, but all 90 people were safe on the rooftop.
Visitors can enter the damaged school building, see the attic warehouse where children and local residents spent the night, listen to storytellers recount memories and the traces of the tsunami, or watch video footage taken at the time. The facility promotes learning about the importance of vigilance and disaster preparedness.
Decisions about how to preserve the site and how to design it as a memorial and educational facility went through a careful process of discussion involving residents, teachers, and experts. Elements including the sundial monument in front that gets visitors to think about and feel the passage of time were brought together into an integrated design that has won high praise. For both the design and the process, the site received the Good Design Award in 2020 (sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion) and the Good Design Best 100 award for best design practice excellence. At an online award ceremony, it was later awarded a Good Focus Award in the category of Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction Design, making it a double winner.Language available: English
• The leaflet is available in both Japanese and English.
• Some exhibits are available in both English and Japanese.
• A video with English subtitles (12-13 minutes) is available.
• An English handbook is available for a fee.

This farmer’s market sells local Yamamoto specialties direct to visitors—items such as strawberries, apples, surf clams, Shine Muscat grapes, and other fresh agricultural and seafood products, as well as processed goods made from local ingredients.
In addition, the commercial facility also serves as a general information center for the community, providing introductions to and taking reservations for local farms during the strawberry picking season. It also offers various kinds of sightseeing information plus free rental bicycles to explore the surrounding area.
There are three restaurants in the adjacent food court serving Japanese, Western, or Chinese food to give visitors a choice and a chance to try seasonal cuisine and dishes made from local ingredients.
A “Tsunami Harley Exhibition Hall” is also located on the site, displaying a U.S.-made Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was damaged in the town in the Great East Japan Earthquake. It also has a photo exhibit of the “miracle Harley” that drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Yamamoto Town to Canada after being drawn out to sea, conveying the danger of a tsunami.

In Yamamoto Town, visitors can experience "strawberry picking" at tourist strawberry farms in the town from December to June, where they can pick ripe strawberries and taste them on the spot.Popular strawberry varieties such as "Tochiotome," "Moicco," and "Benihoppe" are available for all-you-can-eat for 30 minutes, and you can enjoy strawberries until you are satisfied. The best part of strawberry picking is that you can taste the freshly picked strawberries directly and rediscover the deliciousness of each variety.The "Yamamoto Yume Ichigo no Sato" direct sales shop for agricultural and marine products also provides information on strawberry farms where you can pick strawberries, and also offers a reception desk.

Opened on the south side of Kakuda Sports Village (K-Spo) along the prefectural road Kakuda-Yamashita line as a bustling exchange center aiming for a million exchange population. It offers a wide variety of delicious foods from South of Sendai as well as attractive agricultural products, processed foods, and food and beverage menus produced in Kakuda. In cooperation with the adjacent K-Spo, it is an "exciting" roadside station where you will discover something new every time you visit. Kakudora" is a square-shaped dorayaki made in the image of Kakudora. There are many attractive products such as "Muuhime no Koi," a shochu (distilled spirit) made from space potatoes.