宮城県 · Shrines & temples
Atago Jinja (Sendai)
仙台市 仙台
It displays the largest tengu mask in Japan and looks out over the city of Sendai.
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宮城県 · Shrines & temples
Aoba Jinja
仙台市 仙台
It enshrines Date Masamune, and is the starting point of the Sendai Tanabata festival.
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Kuryu no Fuji
岩沼市 県南
A wisteria three hundred years old. The shrine enshrines a deity in the form of a snake and draws prayers for wealth.
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Takekoma Jinja
岩沼市 県南
It claims to be one of the three great Inari shrines of Japan, and draws some of the largest new year crowds in northern Japan.
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Yakurai Jinja
加美町 県北
It worships Mount Yakurai, long known as a mountain of medicinal herbs.
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Hanabushi Jinja
七ヶ浜町 三陸沿岸
It faces the open sea, and survived the tsunami.
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Donto Sai
仙台市 仙台
The Matsutaki festival is a nationally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property, with a long procession of worshippers in loincloths.
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Zaimokuiwa
白石市 県南
A cliff of columnar jointing. A form of faith that stands in awe of natural objects.
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Tagajo
多賀城市 三陸沿岸
The seat of the provincial government of Mutsu. The Tagajo stele, one of the three great ancient monuments of Japan, still stands here.
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Matsushima
松島町 三陸沿岸
One of the three great views of Japan: more than 260 islands afloat in the bay. Basho is said to have found no verse for it.
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Sendai Tanabata
仙台市 仙台
Three thousand streamers fill the arcades. Date Masamune encouraged the festival.
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Sendai-jo
仙台市 仙台
Built on the cliffs of Mount Aoba. No keep was ever raised.
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Okama
蔵王町 県南
A crater lake. Its surface changes colour with the angle of the light, which is why it is called the five-coloured pond.
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Naruko Onsen
大崎市 県北
Nine of Japan's eleven spring types rise here. Kokeshi doll country.
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Akiu Onsen
仙台市 仙台
A bathing place of the Date family, counted among the three imperial hot springs of Japan.
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Tashirojima
石巻市 三陸沿岸
An island with more cats than people. Fishermen long valued cats for catching rats.
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Kyogamine
仙台市 仙台
Zuihoden, Kansenden and Zenoden stand together in a stand of cedars.
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Shiogama Market
塩竈市 三陸沿岸
Sashimi bought here can be made into a rice bowl on the spot. Tuna landings are among the largest in Japan.
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Sendai Mediatheque
仙台市 仙台
Thirteen tubes pierce the floors. Designed by Ito Toyo.
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Onagawa
女川町 三陸沿岸
After the tsunami, the town was rebuilt around an axis running down to the sea.
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Entsuin Garden
松島町 三陸沿岸
A garden that reads Matsushima Bay as the islands of the seven gods of fortune.
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Miyagi Museum of Art
仙台市 仙台
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
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Sendai Mediatheque
仙台市 仙台
Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.
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Sendai City Museum
仙台市 仙台
Holds the National Treasure records of the Keicho embassy to Rome, and Date Masamune's black armour.
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