In addition to the learning programs available at the Minamisanriku 311 Memorial, we also offer a variety of other programs that will help you learn more about disaster prevention and mitigation and prepare to protect your own life.
We will also propose an itinerary that combines each program according to your learning goals.
Please see the page for each program for details.
A guide living in Minamisanriku will show you around the affected areas and tell you about the situation and experiences since the Great East Japan Earthquake.
You can see the old disaster prevention office building, a relic that still remains today, up close, listen to what happened at the time, compare the cityscape from before the disaster with its current appearance while looking at photos, and learn and feel with all five senses what happened in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
As you walk with your guide in a small group, you will have the opportunity to ask about any concerns or questions you may have about natural disasters.
Why not take this opportunity to think about disaster prevention, recovery from the earthquake, and natural disasters with a guide who is a storyteller who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake?
*If you are considering group use, please see here ▶ [For groups] Town walking storyteller
[Learning program led by storytellers] 
We will talk about what the town was like before the disaster, the damage it sustained at the time of the disaster, evacuation conditions, and the storytellers' own experiences and current thoughts.
The guides for this program are local residents who have continued to live in the town since the disaster and have been watching over the area's recovery. Hearing the real voices of local residents living in this area at the actual disaster site will help raise your own awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation.
We can also arrange for young guides who were junior and senior high school students at the time of the earthquake.
[Online Earthquake Disaster Storytelling ~1. My experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake / 2. The organizer talks about life in an evacuation shelter~]
A new program launched in July 2020. As the name suggests, this is a lecture-style program in which storytellers will talk to participants via an online video chat system about their experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the path to recovery up to the present.
It is increasingly being used by people in remote areas for corporate training, preparatory learning for school trips, assignment training, disaster prevention learning, etc., as an opportunity to raise disaster prevention awareness. Up to 100 lines can be connected simultaneously.
[Program to learn from people from Minamisanriku]
We will hear from business owners and people involved in the town who have risen from the unprecedented disaster and are working hard to rebuild their businesses about their journey to the present, their thoughts and determination, and learn from the lessons they have learned from the disaster.
This lecture-style program provides an experience that broadens the perspective needed to achieve social and professional independence in the future from the perspective of career development.