Buildings are covered with mud in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture
More than 9,500 people are unaccounted for in Minamisanriku, a town of some 17,000 people, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Saturday.
CTV's Tom Walters said the town is located on Japan's northeast Pacific coast.
"All eyes here are on reports from Miyagi Prefecture and 9,500 people missing there," Walters told CTV News Channel.
"This of course is the region that was so devastated by the tsunami wave in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake."
No other details were available.
Elsewhere in Japan thousands remained missing and millions without power on Saturday in the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
An estimated 5.5 million households were still without electricity. More than 1 million homes had had their water supply cut off.
The death toll has reached 564 so far according to local officials but it is feared that the number of dead could climb much higher.
Police said they found 200 to 300 bodies washed up on beaches, but authorities are only now getting a look at the extent of the devastation in Sendai and along the coast.
Fires continued to burn in residential areas on Saturday as further earthquakes and aftershocks, some registering upwards of magnitude six, continued to rattle the area.
"We are still getting a lot of aftershocks," one resident told Associated Press, en route to an evacuation center. "It's very frightening. People are panicking, shivering in the cold."
Phone reception was cut in stricken area while hundreds of people lined up outside the few still-operating supermarkets for basic necessities. The gas stations on streets not covered with water were swamped with people waiting to fill their cars.
As many as 300,000 people have been displaced by the disaster, many from the area surrounding the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.
Friday's 8.9 magnitude quake -- the worst in modern Japanese history -- and the resulting tsunami waste to whole sections of northern Japan
In the immediate wake of the disaster rail operators lost contact with four trains running on coastal lines and still had not found them by Saturday afternoon local time according to, Kyodo News agency. The East Japan Railway Co. said it did not know how many people were aboard.
Bullet train services in the area remained suspended Saturday, nine expressways were closed and as many as 464 flights had been cancelled.
CTV's Tom Walters said the town is located on Japan's northeast Pacific coast.
"All eyes here are on reports from Miyagi Prefecture and 9,500 people missing there," Walters told CTV News Channel.
"This of course is the region that was so devastated by the tsunami wave in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake."
No other details were available.
Elsewhere in Japan thousands remained missing and millions without power on Saturday in the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
An estimated 5.5 million households were still without electricity. More than 1 million homes had had their water supply cut off.
The death toll has reached 564 so far according to local officials but it is feared that the number of dead could climb much higher.
Police said they found 200 to 300 bodies washed up on beaches, but authorities are only now getting a look at the extent of the devastation in Sendai and along the coast.
Fires continued to burn in residential areas on Saturday as further earthquakes and aftershocks, some registering upwards of magnitude six, continued to rattle the area.
"We are still getting a lot of aftershocks," one resident told Associated Press, en route to an evacuation center. "It's very frightening. People are panicking, shivering in the cold."
Phone reception was cut in stricken area while hundreds of people lined up outside the few still-operating supermarkets for basic necessities. The gas stations on streets not covered with water were swamped with people waiting to fill their cars.
As many as 300,000 people have been displaced by the disaster, many from the area surrounding the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.
Friday's 8.9 magnitude quake -- the worst in modern Japanese history -- and the resulting tsunami waste to whole sections of northern Japan
In the immediate wake of the disaster rail operators lost contact with four trains running on coastal lines and still had not found them by Saturday afternoon local time according to, Kyodo News agency. The East Japan Railway Co. said it did not know how many people were aboard.
Bullet train services in the area remained suspended Saturday, nine expressways were closed and as many as 464 flights had been cancelled.
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