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Bandai Asahi NP, Iwate
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Look south from Senjojiki toward San’kanshima: the island is a national natural monument and Japan’s only confirmed place where 3 storm-petrel species breed together. The protected island is not open to casual landings.
At the fishing village beside the trail, the local inn serves Kamaishi uni shabu: a broth based on local sea urchin, so visitors can enjoy the region’s famous summer catch even outside its short peak season.
“Hakozaki” may describe the cape’s box-like granite blocks; nearby “Senjojiki” means “1,000 tatami mats,” a playful measure of its vast wave-cut shelf. The granite began as magma about 120 million years ago.
After the 2011 tsunami swept away village inns, 167 crowdfunding backers joined Hakozaki-Shirahama residents to create Ohakozaki no Yado on a former nursery-school site—a new meeting place for the fishing community and coastal hikers.
The village inn’s local-food menu lists winter-only ika-poppo: squid stuffed with seasoned rice. Visitors can also cook local recipes alongside village grandmothers.
At the cape’s end, a line of vermilion torii leads to Ohakozaki Shrine; in the nearby fishing village, crews visit Myojin Shrine to pray for safe trips and good catches.
The roughly 7-km walk from Hakozaki-Shirahama passes open fields where bright orange sukashiyuri lilies bloom in summer, followed by Nippon daisies, or hamagiku, in autumn.
On calm days, broad pools on Senjojiki’s flat rock shelf can mirror the sky—and the huge landmark boulder. An Environment Ministry ranger noted that the whole rocky expanse is too large to fit in one photograph.
On June 19, 2026, Japan’s Council for Cultural Affairs recommended Senjojiki for the national Registered Monument category for scenic places, recognizing the exceptional landscape of this rocky cape.
