mercredi 22 août 2012

Aug 19, Sendai and the tsunami

This morning we visit a samourai city with a museum , with a lot of Japanese tourist with beautiful houses and costumes.
We approach the coast of the disaster , where the tsunami took so much lives in 2011,
First signs are pack of broken cars and some bridges damaged, but nothing that shows the intensity of the catastrophe.
As it is time to find a place to sleep, we cross a city, but we cross it on a map only as there is NO city any more where the map shows a seafront, port, streets shops, mall, .., like devastated by an atomic bomb.
This is terrible
Then leaving the main road, we ride a nice rocky road along the coast, and here the damages are much significants- houses half broken, even quite high, jetty destroyed and of course , all the hotels that , before were part of the very touristic system doesn't exist anymore.
Lot of boats lay down , half broken
We spot a campsite as no time to find something else now, and it is occupied by... Japanese refugees , who build a village with mobile home as they lost everything in the tsunami.
At the end we decide to ride the 150 km to Sendai , the large city closeby. Definitly the area which was a beautiful touristic coast will need a long time to recover
We stop in a business hotel , and eat in a funny restaurant where Matteo change his Italian t-shirt with the one of the chef- really nice people again here- and no English of course.
That makes the bit of fun necessary to try to forget the terrible signs we saw couples of hours before.
Let's see what will be the surround of Sendai tomorrow morning.

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