Bus tour returning to Japan s disaster zone, ten years on
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By: Mari Yamaguchi
Fumio Ito returned to the wreckage with a mission: to show unexpected disasters can happen anywhere, writes
Haruka Nuga
For nearly a decade, a Japanese hotel has been giving bus tours to show visitors the history of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan s northern Pacific coast in 2011.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it generated on March 11, 2011, killed about 18,000 people and devastated the coastline. Buildings in Minamisanriku were flattened, and more than 800 people in the city were killed or went missing.
The memorial park near former local Disaster Prevention Center where 43 workers died in 2011 tsunami in Minamisanriku. Photo / Eugene Hoshiko, AP
GO NZ: A Waiheke holiday full of unexpected adventures
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Zest of Spain: Waiheke s Casita Miro offers Barcelona tapas and an Iberian inspired setting. Photo / Supplied
Zest of Spain: Waiheke s Casita Miro offers Barcelona tapas and an Iberian inspired setting. Photo / Supplied
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Scarlett Cvitanovich
I thought I knew Waiheke Island. I was wrong.
In one 48-hour visit, I ventured 70m underground to the heart of Auckland s World War II defence effort - listening to a piano recital halfway down - zipped through the air faster than you re allowed to drive on the island, and star gazed with a group working hard to have Waiheke recognised for its dark skies.
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