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Ōgama

Jagged ria coast and strange rocks. The marble column called Oreishi, rising from the sea, is the signature view of Sanriku Fukko National Park.

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Fukuurajima

An island reached by the Fukuura bridge. The 252-metre vermilion bridge is called the meeting bridge. Over 300 plant species grow wild on the island.

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Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Matsuri

A festival in central Ishinomaki, with a parade of portable shrines and a drum and fife corps, closing with some 6,000 fireworks.

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Sushi

Shiogama is one of Japan's leading ports for fresh tuna. Bigeye from early autumn to winter is graded as Sanriku Shiogama Higashimono.

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Mābō yakisoba

Chinese noodles seared on the surface and tossed with spicy mapo tofu. It came out of a Chinese restaurant's staff meals in the 1970s.

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旧有備館

Where the sons of Iwadeyama Date retainers studied in the Edo period. The main house, the retirement home of the second lord Munetoshi, remains.

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Izu-numa

More swans and geese arrive here than anywhere in Japan. Registered under the Ramsar Convention in 1985 and named a national natural monument in 1967.

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輪王寺

A temple that moved to this site when Masamune entered Sendai. Its stroll garden around a pond has irises and water lilies with a three-storey pagoda …

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地底の森ミュージアム

The Tomizawa site, preserved and shown exactly as excavated, with the ice-age forest reconstructed outdoors.

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Zaō Rakunō Center

A visitor farm on the flank of Zao, west of Togatta Onsen, selling dairy goods and letting you make them.

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Miyagi-no-Meiji-mura

Tome keeps Meiji-era Western and quasi-Western buildings — a school, the prefectural office, a police station. Together they go by this name.

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JR Fruit Park Sendai Arahama

Pick from more than 150 varieties across eight crops — strawberries, apples, grapes and others — all year round. A farm shop and cafe adjoin.

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Kokia Light-up

Kochia lit up at night in Michinoku Park, about 75 minutes by bus from Sendai Station.

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Hōmei Shijūhattaki

The collective name for the falls, large and small, on the upper Hirose River. The sound was likened to the cry of a phoenix.

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Hokki-meshi

A local dish of Yamamoto and Watari eaten alongside autumn's harakomeshi, made with surf clams caught from winter into spring.

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Tadokoro Shokuhin Kankō Budōen

A visitor farm in Yamamoto, once a grape district and held to be the birthplace of grape juice in Japan. Pick Shine Muscat and Pione.

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Zunda

A sweet made from mashed green soybeans. The name is thought to come from zunda, a slurring of "bean pounding"; some say Masamune coined it.

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Sendai Aoba Festival

Descended from the Edo-period Sendai Festival and revived on the 350th anniversary of Masamune's death, with sparrow dancing, a warrior procession and…

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Hitome Senbonzakura and Funaoka Castle Ruins Park Cherry Blossoms

About 1,200 cherry trees run eight kilometres along the Shiroishi River bank. They bloom while snow still lies on the Zao range. Funaoka castle park h…

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Miyagi Prefecture Shizugawa Nature House

The only public education centre in Tohoku for marine nature study. Sea kayaking and raft building on Shizugawa Bay.

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Kuriden Museum

A museum of the Kurihara railway, which began in 1921 and closed in 2007. You can take the controls in a real driver's cab.

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SENDAI Pageant of Starlight

Begun by volunteers from the city. Hundreds of thousands of lights fill the zelkova trees along Jozenji Street.

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Kurikoma-san (Iwakagami-daira)

Besides the central and Higashi-Kurikoma routes from Iwakagami-daira, four other trails climb the mountain.

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Jōgi Nyorai

Six kilometres northeast of Sakunami Onsen. Gokurakusan Saihoji, known as Jogi Nyorai, with souvenir shops along the approach.