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349 records · 12/15

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Michinoku Date Masamune Rekishikan

Masamune's life in 25 scenes, using some 200 life-size wax figures.

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田代島

An island whose fishermen cherished cats as bringers of good catches. A shrine honours them, and visitors come from abroad.

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Gyutan

Devised in 1948 by Keishiro Sano, who ran a yakitori shop in Sendai. Specialist restaurants now number over a hundred.

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Juhyo (Snow Monsters)

Ice shapes made by Zao's hard winter. They form only where Aomori fir grows and a strong west wind blows.

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Iwakagami-daira Autumn Leaves

The end of the Jukai Line and the trailhead for Mount Kurikoma, where lava and autumn colour overlap.

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弥治郎こけし村

The birthplace of Yajiro-style kokeshi dolls. Watch the makers work, and try painting one yourself.

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Sendai-Izumi Premium Outlets

An outlet mall in Izumi ward: 40 minutes by bus from Sendai Station, five minutes by car from the Izumi Smart interchange.

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竹駒神社

Founded in 842, one of Japan's three great Inari shrines, honouring the gods of clothing, food and shelter. Its Edo-period two-storey gate and Chinese…

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Matsushima Hot-Air Balloon Experience

In the morning a balloon lifts about 20 metres above Matsushima Bay. When conditions allow, the dawn sky shows on the water.

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Ikan Mount Tamon

From the Bishamon hall partway up, you look down on Umahanashijima, Jizojima and the other islands of Matsushima Bay. Cherry blossom in spring.

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Nikka Whisky Sendai Factory Miyagikyo Distillery

A whisky distillery at Sakunami in Sendai: an hour and five minutes by bus from Sendai Station, 25 minutes by car from the Sendai-Miyagi interchange.

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Yakurai Garden

A flower garden backed by Mount Yakurai: tulips and rapeseed in spring, roses and lavender in early summer, cockscomb and salvia in autumn.

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Mitsui Outlet Park Sendai Port

An outlet mall at Sendai Port: eight minutes' walk from Nakanosakae Station on the Senseki Line, five minutes by car from the Sendai-Kohoku interchang…

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Kura-no-Kyodokan Sairi Yashiki

The Saito family, merchants who prospered from the Edo into the Showa era, gave their house and collection to the town. The shop storehouse is a regis…

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Kaki

Water from the mountains pours into a jagged bay, and offshore the Oyashio and Kuroshio currents meet. Plankton is plentiful, and oyster beds are many…

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Harako-meshi

An autumn dish eaten mainly around Watari: salmon flesh and roe served over rice.

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Seri-nabe

Miyagi is among Japan's top growers of seri, water dropwort. About 80 per cent comes from Natori, its stems and roots notably thick. The root goes int…

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Sankaku abura-age

Born from tofu made in a soybean-growing district. Eat it straight from the fryer with chilli pepper and soy sauce.

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Kankaku Museum

The first museum in Japan built around the five human senses, with displays that make you notice seeing, hearing, touching and smelling.

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Sekai-yachi Genjō Hanazono

A large marsh on the south flank of Mount Kurikoma, ringed by old-growth beech and known for day lilies from mid to late June.

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Onikōbe Kanketsusen

A geyser called Benten throws boiling water up to 15 metres about every ten minutes. You can cook eggs in the hot spring too.

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仙台七夕まつり

Lavish bamboo decorations fill central Sendai, and streamers turn the streets into a sea of colour.

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Michi-no-ku Mori-no-Kohan Park

On the shore of the Kamafusa dam lake, the only national park of its kind in Tohoku, divided into a great flower bed, old houses from the six Tohoku p…

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Sagakyō

Limestone cliffs worn by wave and wind. Caves and strange rocks make a scene quite unlike the calm of Matsushima Bay.