石巻駅前 Ishinomaki Station

萬画の国 いしのまき。

石巻というと、

水産都市、支倉常長、サン・ファン・バウティスタ号...とまず思い浮かびますが、

石ノ森章太郎氏の作品をメインとした萬画で街おこしをしている町でもあります。

Land of Manga, Ishinomaki City, Miyagi, 50km northeast from Sendai City.

My image of Ishinomaki is city of fisheries,

Hasekura Tsunenaga, who visited Roma from the port in Ishinomaki City 400 years ago 

and his ship San Juan Bautista, which you can see in the city (although it's replica)

but it's also famous as renewing the city by Manga.

You can see many characters by Ishinomori Shotaro, a manga artist born in same Miyagi Prefecture, 

around the center of the city.

police ofiice by the Ishinomaki Station

Ishinomaki City Hall and Kamen Rider V3

mailbox by the Station

Seajetter Kaito on the clock by the Station

忘れてはいけないのは、
あの日、まさにこの場所にも津波が襲ってきたということ。

This station is also one of the place damaged by the big tsunami last year.