It's judged from a big map (Googlemap: external website ).
Onagawa-cho is designated in the "Sanriku rehabilitation, national park" area which was founded in the Sanriku area which was located in the east of the Miyagi and Oshika peninsula bottom and hit by East Japan Great Earthquake. Soul island Kinkazan" where Oshu three large holy ground is one is also popular as a power spot in recent years, and a liner has departed from Onagawa harbor.
Because aqua farming of an oyster and a scallop sea squirt silver salmon forms a natural good harbor and is popular, and the Kinkazan offing fishing ground where the world three big catch place is one is close, the rich fish species of the warm current cold current is many through the year in a fish market, and a scenic sawtooth coastline where Kitakami-sanchi and Pacific Ocean cross is landed.
Because the history of "Onagawa" made clan's woman take refuge in the "Yasuno flat" which is a safety zone when powerful family Abe Sadato fought against an army of Genji person around the role of the previous nine years, you're telling that it was place-name after calling the valley stream which flows out from this place "Onagawa".
Place-name of "Ishihama" and "inlet inn" is learned about as a natural good harbor from the old days, and is recorded on the document which is at the time of expedition measurement in Sanriku-kaigan by Espana mission of (1611) in 1611, and Onagawa harbor is also introduced by anchoring of a warship to all over the world as suitability in case of the first arriving in port of the Oriental fleet which leads England Hamilton general in 1885 (1885).
- Thursday . in the town and* "cedar"
- Floral* in the town and* "cherry tree"
- Fish* in the town and* "bonito"
- Bird* in the town and* "black-tailed gull"