In order to make useful suggestions to future tsunami urban recovery policies, the authors examined the transition of housing location in the damaged areas due to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in Miyagi and Iwate Prefecture, Japan. This paper analyzes the relationship between the situation of resettlement in higher land after the 1896 Tsunami and the building damage due to the 1933 Tsunami in those areas. Then, comparing the sequential aero photos between the 2011 Tsunami and

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... the 1933 Tsunami, it presents that the damage ratio of housing had decreased in coastal areas in the objective 22 districts but the damage number of housing had increased in the objective 29 districts.