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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.

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Ice Aquarium

At minus 20 degrees inside, some 600 fish landed at Kesennuma port — bonito, saury and more — are on display.

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Kura-no-Machimami (the Storehouse Townscape)

Murata was a hub on the routes to Edo and Kyoto, prospering as a collecting point for safflower and other goods. The merchants' storehouses remain.

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Ramen

Soy, miso, salt, dried sardine, iekei, tsukemen — the range is wide. Some shops offer seasonal bowls with seri or oysters.

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Tenpyō Roman-kan

Displays on the history of gold mining, with ceramic panel paintings by Ikuo Hirayama. You can pan for gold dust the old way.

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Iwaizaki

A cape at Hashikami in Kesennuma, a geosite of the Sanriku Geopark, where the sea blows up through cracks in eroded limestone.

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Yagiyama Zoological Park Fujisaki-no-Mori

Some 540 animals of 116 species, endangered ones among them, shown in settings close to their habitats.

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Sanbongi Himawari-no-Oka (the Sunflower Hill)

On six hectares of hillside, about two million rape flowers in spring and some 420,000 sunflowers in summer.

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Ojima and Togetsukyo Bridge

An island reached by the Togetsu bridge. Buddhist images and posthumous names are carved into mossy grottoes, said to have been a training ground for …

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Ishinomori Shōtarō Furusato Kinenkan

Shotaro Ishinomori was born in Ishinomori, Nakada. His works and possessions are shown here, with his birthplace close by.

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Bukeyashiki

A samurai residence of the Katakura retainers. A prefectural cultural property, its plain construction shows how warriors of the time lived.

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Mō Land Motoyoshi

Meet rabbits and ponies on a wide pasture. You can also try making ice cream, butter and sausage.

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Izunuma and Uchinuma Lotus

In summer lotus flowers cover the whole marsh. A lotus festival is timed to the bloom, and small boats slip between the flowers.

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Kesennuma Shark Museum

Ten minutes by car from Kesennuma Station, at the port that lands more shark than any other in Japan.

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秋保温泉

An old spring counted, with Nozawa and Bessho, among Japan's three imperial baths. In the domain era the Date family had their bathhouse here.