宮城県女川町 Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture October 28, 2022
女川町は海岸から内陸にかけて山に囲まれた、くぼ地になっているため、津波は山肌を這うようにして20メートルもの高さにせり上がり、他の被災地と比べても巨大な規模だった。高台にある女川地域医療センターの柱には、1階床から1.95ｍを示すメモリが刻まれている。市街地は根こそぎ流され、七十七銀行女川支店も根こそぎ倒壊、（医療センター近くの高台には被災者行員１２名の碑がある）、駅舎も破壊された。死者・行方不明者は827人を数える。そして、死亡率＝(死者数+不明者数)／(死者数+不明者数+避難者数)×100としたとき、東日本大震災で最も高い死亡率となったのが女川町の55.9％だった。
Since Onagawa-cho is a depression surrounded by mountains from the coast to the inland, the tsunami climbed up to a height of 20 meters as if crawling along the mountain surface, a huge scale compared to other disaster areas.
On the pillars of the Onagawa Regional Medical Center, which is located on a hill, there is a memory inscribed that indicates the height of the tsunami, which is 1.95m from the first floor. The city was completely swept away, the 77 Bank Onagawa branch was completely destroyed (there is a monument to the 12 victims' employees on the hill near the medical center), and the station building was also destroyed.
827 people are dead or missing. When the death rate = (number of deaths + number of unknown persons) / (number of deaths + number of unknown persons + number of evacuees) x 100, Onagawa Town had the highest mortality rate in the Great East Japan Earthquake at 55.9%.
被災以来、女川町は国や県の補助を得ながら、約2年を費やしてがれきを撤去し、並行して女川港や道路の整備のほか、女川駅周辺に展開する中心市街地の土地のかさ上げ、高台の宅地造成などを急ピッチで進められた。
駅舎も以前の場所から少し移動し、女川駅を東の終点とする石巻線は、2015年3月21日、被災以来、4年ぶりに全線開通していた。
また、震災遺構として「旧女川交番」が津波の恐ろしさを伝えている。女川港では釣りを楽しむ人、駐車場にはキャピングカーで日本中を回っている人「もう２年も家に帰ってないよ、海辺は良いね」と、楽しい話。女川町は見る限りでは、完全復興している。
Since the disaster, the town of Onagawa has spent about two years with subsidies from the national and prefectural governments to remove the rubble. The construction of residential land on high ground was advanced at a rapid pace.
The station building also moved slightly from its previous location, and on March 21, 2015, the Ishinomaki Line, which has Onagawa Station as its eastern terminus, reopened for the first time in four years since the disaster.
From the station to the sea, Seapalpia Onagawa, a "park town with a view of the sea", has been developed and reconstruction is progressing.
In addition, the "Old Onagawa Police Box", a relic of the earthquake disaster, conveys the terror of the tsunami. People who enjoy fishing at Onagawa Port and people traveling around Japan in campervans, as far as I can see, Onagawa Town is completely restored.
＜女川漁港＞
震災遺構「旧女川交番」Earthquake remains "Old Onagawa police
女川町２０１６年５月：sunakfilm2018.g2.xrea.com/tofoku_shinsai_5yers.html
※宮城県topに戻る。
※東日本大震災topに戻る。