Sendai Umino Mori Aquarium

Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

仙台うみの杜水族館

 Let's go to the Umino-Mori Aquarium where life shines!

An aquarium has appeared here in Sendai where marine life shines, and marine organisms provide excitement and dreams; where they cause people who experience them to smile; and where both ocean life and visitors shine.

 The aquarium stands out for highlighting the coastal environment of Miyagi Prefecture. It lets visitors see below the sea’s surface and understand how oysters live, how they are farmed as well as the many local fish this region is famous for. Near the entrance is a main attraction, a massive tank featuring a rare blue shark and a circling school of sardines.(see also)

仙台うみの杜水族館は三陸の海と宮城県の水生生物を中心に展示しています。三陸名物マボヤの展示があり、イルカとアシカが共演するショーも見所です。宮城県

Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

仙台うみの杜水族館

About Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

http://www.uminomori.jp/umino/

http://en.japantravel.com/news/new-aquarium-opens-in-sendai/21628

Google map

https://goo.gl/maps/fdKwqryc4fR2

Performances of dolphins and sea lions

Sea squirt

Halocynthia roretzi

マボヤ

Brown hakeling

Physiculus maximowiczi

エゾイソアイナメ

Ocellate spot skate

Raja kenojei

コモンカスベ

Fringed blenny

Chirolophis japonicus

フサギンポ

Sunrise sculpin

Pseudoblennius cottoides

アサヒアナハゼ

Bigfin reef squid

Sepioteuthis lessoniana

アオリイカ

Silver salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

ギンザケ

Ocean sunfish

Mola mola

マンボウ

Common japanese conger

Conger myriaster

マアナゴ

Flathead mullet

Mugil cephalus cephalus

ボラ

Tidepool gunnel

Pholis nebulosa

ギンポ

Mantis shrimp

Oratosquilla oratoria

シャコ

Checked swallowtail

Odontanthias borbonius

マダラハナダイ

Oryzias latipes

井土メダカ, ミナミメダカ

Lethocerus deyrollei

タガメ

Hynobius lichenatus

トウホクサンショウウオ

Acheilognathus tabira erythropterus

アカヒレタビラ

Pseudorasbora pumila pumila

シナイモツゴ

Dardanus arrosor

ケスジヤドカリ

Little penguin

Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae

フェアリーペンギン

Blackfinned clownfish

Amphiprion percula

クラウンアネモネフィッシュ

Yellow-snout shrimp-goby

Stonogobiops xanthorhinica

ネジリンボウ

Baikal seal

Pusa sibirica

バイカルアザラシ

Russian sturgeon

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii

ロシアチョウザメ

Siberian sturgeon

Acipenser baerii

シベリアチョウザメ

Yellowhead jawfish

Opistognathus aurifrons

イエローヘッドジョーフィッシュ

Commerson's dolphin

Cephalorhynchus commersonii

イロワケイルカ

Spectacled caiman

Caiman crocodilus

メガネカイマン

American beaver

Castor canadensis

アメリカビーバー

Shinkansen

新幹線

Japanese foods are good and safe.

Because of stricter food safety law by Japanese government, we have no worry about foods.

Sushi
寿司

Maguro ; tuna

マグロ

Fukahire ; Shark Fin

フカヒレ

 About 5 years have passed since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. I have visited various places of Japan to see the health consequence of the accident.

 Fortunately I have never found any impacts by the accident among Japanese creatures. As far as I know, nobody has health problem which is caused by the nuclear power plant accident in Japan.

 Our Prime Minister Abe assures that "The situation is under control. The influence of the contaminated water is completely blocked within Fukushima. There are no health-related problems until now and there will never be health problems." He also said that "Tokyo is 250 kilometers away from Fukushima, and the kind of danger that you imagine does not exist in Tokyo. Tokyo is a very safe city."

 As PM Abe said, Miyagi prefecture is just next to Fukushima prefecture, people in Miyagi have no concern about the nuclear power plant accident. People in Miyagi have already forgotten the accident, because they think radioactive materials cannot reach there.

 We know there is no problem for childbirth and child rearing in Miyagi. So people in Miyagi are living without any concern about the accident.

 I continue to visit various places in Japan to see the effects of the accident, because I can meet various creatures which are more sensitive to radioactive materials from the environment. It is important to see their health for our safety.

公衆衛生ネットワーク

Public Health Network in Japan

http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/phnet/

Motsuji

Motsuji
毛越寺

Motsuji was founded in 850 by Ennin (Jikaku Daishi), though most of its structures were not built until the twelfth century, when the second and third Hiraizumi Fujiwara lords, Motohira and Hidehira, brought the temple to prominence. At its peak, Motsuji was a complex of 40 halls and stupas, and 500 monks' quarters. The temple is said to have exceeded even Chusonji Temple in size and magnificence. However, after the fall of the Fujiwara at the close of the twelfth century, several terrible fires reduced every last one of those buildings to ashes. The only original feature remaining is the Pure Land Garden centered on Oizumi ga Ike Pond. This outstanding twelfth century garden specimen was almost completely preserved and has been designated a Special Historic Site and Special Place of Scenic Beauty by the Japanese government.

毛越寺は慈覚大師円仁が開山(850)し、藤原氏二代基衡公から三代秀衡公の時代に多くの伽藍が造営されました。往時には堂塔40僧坊500を数え、中尊寺をしのぐほどの規模と華麗さであったといわれています。奥州藤原氏滅亡後、度重なる災禍に遭いすべての建物が焼失しましたが、現在大泉が池を中心とする浄土庭園と平安時代の伽藍遺構がほぼ完全な状態で保存されており、国の特別史跡・特別名勝の二重の指定を受けています。岩手県

These pictures were taken on November, 2015.

Motsuji Main Gate

毛越寺 正門

About Motsuji

http://www.motsuji.or.jp/english/yurai/index.html

Google map
https://goo.gl/maps/WX3ZWeWLhZk

Hondo ; Main Hall 

本堂

The primary object of worship is a statue of Yakushi Nyorai that has survived since the temple's heyday.

本尊は薬師如来で、平安時代の作 

Pure Land Garden, Motsuji Temple Garden

浄土庭園

Oizumi ga Ike Pond

大泉が池

Kaisando Hall

開山堂

This hall commemorates Ennin (Jikaku Daishi), third head abbot of the Tendai sect, to whom the temple legend attribute's Motsuji's founding.

毛越寺を開いた慈覚大師円仁(794-864)

常行堂

Jogyodo ; Circumambulation Hall

The current structure was rebuilt in 1732 to extend the military fortunes of the lord of Sendai, Date Yoshimura. Under the hall's pyramidal roof is a dais on which is the primary object of worship, the Amida Buddha, flanked by four bodhisattvas.

Amida Buddha

阿弥陀如来

Japanese foods are good and safe.

Because of stricter food safety law by Japanese government, we have no worry about foods.

Tenzaru Soba ; Tempura and Soba Noodles Served on a Zaru Basket

天ざるそば

Ramen

ラーメン

Shirako ; Soft roe, Fish Milt Sashimi

白子

Ekiben ; Box lunch sold on a train or at a station

駅弁

 About 5 years have passed since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. I have visited various places of Japan to see the health consequence of the accident.

 Fortunately I have never found any impacts by the accident among Japanese creatures. As far as I know, nobody has health problem which is caused by the nuclear power plant accident in Japan.

 Our Prime Minister Abe assures that "The situation is under control. The influence of the contaminated water is completely blocked within Fukushima. There are no health-related problems until now and there will never be health problems." He also said that "Tokyo is 250 kilometers away from Fukushima, and the kind of danger that you imagine does not exist in Tokyo. Tokyo is a very safe city."

 As PM Abe said, Iwate prefecture have no concern about the nuclear power plant accident. People in Iwate have already forgotten the accident, because they think radioactive materials cannot reach there.

 We know there is no problem for childbirth and child rearing in Iwate. So people in Iwate are living without any concern about the accident.

 I continue to visit various places in Japan to see the effects of the nuclear power plant accident, because I can meet various creatures which are more sensitive to radioactive materials from the environment. It is important to see their health for our safety.

公衆衛生ネットワーク

Public Health Network in Japan

http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/phnet/