bcadUkedo Elementary School is located about 200 metres from the coast. The school building was engulfed and partially destroyed by the tsunami, but miraculously no lives were lost thanks to fast thinking and evacuation. Conditions at the school are almost the same as when the disaster struck.These are the first disaster remains in Fukushima Prefecture. The school is preserved in the same condition as it was in at the time of the disaster in order to demonstrate the threat and lessons of the disaster, to pass on the memories and records of the area to future generations, and to raise awareness of disaster prevention. The classrooms and gymnasium on the first floor, which were most severely damaged by the tsunami, are almost entirely as they were at the time of the disaster, and the site has been prepared so that visitors can observe the conditions from outside of the school, from the corridors and so on. On the second floor, there are panels showing the extent of the damage and details of the evacuation following the nuclear accident, as well as messages of support and so on written by visitors on blackboards that have been preserved. Communal cemetery on high ground with a panoramic view of the tsunami’s devastationNamie Town-run Ohirayama CemeteryThis communal cemetery is located on high ground about 2 kilometres from the coast. The view of Ukedo district and the Pacific Ocean conveys the huge extent of the tsunami’s devastation. This place, where the children of Ukedo Elementary School were evacuated to immediately following the earthquake, was an expanse of fields at that time. Afterwards, in response to the wishes of the local residents, the Ohirayama Cemetery was built on the site to house the graves of those who were lost in the disaster. Together with a memorial monument built as a requiem for the victims and as a warning to future generations, the cemetery continues to convey the memory of the disaster.Location: Ukedo, Namie Towna. The hands of the clock installed on the observation deck are stopped at the time when the tsunami hit. b. Abandoned label indicating the location of the school infirmaryc. Mud-stained materials that vividly convey the disaster d. Inside the gymnasium where the sign for the graduation ceremony still hangsAddress: 56 Ukedo Mochidaira, Namie Town TEL: 0240-23-704113Disaster Remains of Namie Municipal Ukedo Elementary School
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