The Otsuchi Town Local Assets
Utilization Spring Water Area is located south of Otsuchi Station on the
Sanriku Railway.
This area was a residential
area before the Great East Japan Earthquake, but after the earthquake it was
developed as a park where you can observe the swanps instead of a residential
area.
Otsuchi Town is rich in
underground water and there were many artesian wells that would gush out water
when a pipe was driven into the ground. Water continued to flow from the many
wells destroyed in the earthquake, making swanps, where you can see the three-spined
stickleback fish, which can only live in clear, cold water, and the Mizuaoi
plant, which is a nationally near threatened species. Many other precious
plants can be seen.
I heard from an acquaintance that the blue flowers of Mizuaoi-Pontederia were blooming beautifully, so Sachiki-san and I went to see them.
There are car parks and roads
in the area.
While walking with
Sachiki0san, deer ran by.
