IWATE PREFECTURE
Driving Instructions
There are two ways to get get to places in Iwate Prefecture. You can use Route 45 and take the scenic coastal road or you can go down the Hachinohe Expressway to the Tohoku Expressway. These instructions take you via Route 45. You would normally use this route to get to the Ryusendo Caves, the Fudai and other points on the coast.- Exit the base from the POL gate and proceed straight about 3 KM until you reach the Momoishi Toll road. It is the first overpass you will come to.
- Turn left at the traffic light just prior to the overpass and you are on the entrance ramp to the toll road
- You will pass through the Shimoda Toll Gate (¥150) and continue on to the Hachinohe Kita exit. (Second exit past the toll booth)
- Exit at Hachinohe Kita (¥200) and follow the exit ramp to the traffic light.
- The cross street is Route 45.
- Turn right onto Route 45 and follow it through the city.
- After about 6KM you will come to what appears to be a T intersection with a traffic light.
- Turn right here. You are still on Route 45.
- Follow 45 out the south end of Hachinohe, following the signs for KUJI and MIYAKO.
Fudai Area Camping
- Green Village Campground
- Continue on Route 45 until the signs tell you that you are approaching Kuji City. It takes about an hour and a half but there are many variables invloved so concentrate on signs.
- Just before Kuji City you will go around several sharp curves and the come to a stoplight.
- Turn left onto a by-pass and looks for signs for Kuji road out of Kuji City.
- Follow this by-pass through a stop light and then through a tunnel.
- After you exit the tunnel, go about 22.5 KM until you see the Fudai Ocean Center on your left.
- Continue on 2.8 more KM and around a curve. Turn at tbe a stone arch on the right.
- Continue on this road until you reach the Green Village Campground. There will be a fork in the road. Either fork is OK.
- OR Fudai Beach
- Continue south on Route 45 through Kuji City.
- From Kuji City, you will arrive at Fudai Town
- There you will come to a dead end intersection with a stop light.
- Turn left and then take the next right and go under the railroad tracks.
- Turn left at the Fire Station
- Continue straight until the road ends at the campgrounds
- OR Kurosaki Campground
- Continue south from Hachinohe on route 45, through Kuji City and into Fudai Town.
- Turn left at the same dead end intesection’s stoplight as for Fudai Beach.
- Go one block and turn right under the train tracks.
- Go straight past the fire station and the gas station.
- At the Caution Light, turn left.
- Proceed 2KM through a tunnel until you see a blue sign for Rikuchu Kaigan.
- Go another 6KM through four tunnels and a very curvy road.
- You will see a sign that says Fudai Kuroishi and the campground will be on your left.
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