Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Science Museum

A tourist information center located on the site of the roadside station Tarou, which serves as a base for nearby tourist information and for disaster prevention guides to learn.

The roadside station, which is one of the 88 locations nationwide and two locations in Iwate Prefecture, has been selected as an important "roadside station", has been relocated and maintained from the former location to the center of the Taro area, the facility became a complex with four private shops in addition to "Shikinori Toratarou", "Road Information and Rest Facility", toilets and fast food, selling local seafood and vegetables, and became an easy-to-use facility for local people. In addition, in the multi-purpose dome, "Pet Space Tekuteku" sells handmade pet food and dog-cat pattern miscellaneous items, and there is also "Dog Run Wantaro" which can be used free of charge nearby, so it can be used with dogs.

The Taro district, where extensive damage was caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The six-story "Tarou Tourist Hotel", which stands in the Taro district, is a building that has been certified to the tsunami house, which receives state support. Up to the second floor, the steel frame is bare, and it speaks of the horror of the tsunami, which is about 17m high. The Miyako Tourism and Cultural Exchange Association said as a "Learning Disaster Prevention Guide" (Reservations Required) After a breakwater tour, you can watch a DVD of the tsunami taken by the owner from this hotel at the "Tarou Tourist Hotel".