Japan has asked for a boat back that has washed up in America following the massive 2011 tsunami.

Officials from the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata said it is in a ‘giddy state of shock’ and would love to get the boat back now it has been found in northern California.

The 20ft boat was been discovered in the town of Crescent City, midway between the cities of San Francisco and Portland.

The boat had travelled a distance of some 5,500 miles.

The Japanese found out where the boat was after officials in the U.S. posted a picture on Crescent City’s Facebook page.

Just hours later, a teacher from a school in Japan, said the boat was their’s.

When the deadly tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, about five million tons of debris was dragged into the Pacific Ocean, according to Japanese government estimates.

Most of the flotsam and jetsam later sunk to the bottom, but about 1.5 tons of debris continued floating across the ocean.

Some of tsunami remnants found their way to American shores, including two docks that made landfall in Washington and Oregon. But the only living organisms that were discovered on the docks included plant life and invertebrate like limpets and barnacles.