Onagawa Town "Onagawa Spring Festival" 2025 to be held - A spring festival that conveys evacuation actions with the command "Run away!"

On Sunday, March 23, 2025, the annual spring event "Onagawa Spring Festival" will be held in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, around the Onagawa Town Community Center. The organizer is the Festival Executive Committee. (© Onagawa Town Hall)

「 Onagawa Spring Festival It started on May 4, 2011, immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, by the younger generation of the town to encourage the townspeople.

The centerpiece of the festival is the "Tsunami Legend Onagawa Fuyukio" that conveys the memories of the earthquake to future generations. With the command "Evacuate!", participants run up to higher ground in unison to experience evacuation actions in the event of an earthquake. The qualification for participation is to continue to convey that "if a tsunami comes, flee to higher ground." Currently Participants Recruiting Are.

At the venue, there are plenty of events that can be enjoyed by both adults and children, such as stage shows, food and drink cars, food and drink booths, and a kids' corner. Gourmet food and specialty products using local ingredients will also be sold.

The event will be held from 9:00~16:00. Access to the site is just a short walk from Onagawa Station on the JR Ishinomaki Line.

The Onagawa Town Tourism Association says, "We would like to spread the experience of evacuating to higher ground all at once in a competitive format to prevent the earthquake from fading away and raise awareness of disaster prevention.

Onagawa Town, which was the setting for the movie "The Three Sisters of Tenmaso"

Onagawa Town is located on the Oshika Peninsula in the eastern part of Miyagi Prefecture, facing the Pacific Ocean to the east and surrounded by the Kitakami Mountains on three other sides. Based on the manga "Sky High", which was drawn with the requiem for the Great East Japan Earthquake, the movie " The Three Sisters of Tenmaso The place that became the motif of the stage of "Non", the actor who played the lead role, visited Onagawa Town, photographing was done.