Discover Japan

宮城県 · Regional selections

Kuri dango

A speciality of Naruko Onsen: a large chestnut inside soft mochi, under a thick soy-flavoured sauce.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Chacha World Ishikoshi

An amusement park with a racing circuit, a super slider and a boating pond.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Gojūnotō

A pagoda raised in gratitude for Taira no Sadayoshi, for his repose and for lasting peace. It is opened on the 7th of each month from March to Novembe…

宮城県 · Regional selections

Sendai Ichigo Sweets

Miyagi grows more strawberries than anywhere else in Tohoku, mainly in Watari and Yamamoto, where growing continued through the disaster.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Kinka Katsuo and Kinka Saba

Caught off Sanriku and Kinkasan and landed at Ishinomaki fish market, only those meeting the standard are certified.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

A large tank recreating the Sanriku sea, with dolphin and sea lion shows in one of the largest stadiums in Tohoku.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Higashimatsushima Natsu Matsuri

A summer festival held in Higashimatsushima.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Iwaizaki Shiozukuri Taikenkan

Iwaisaki was once the Sendai domain's saltworks. Learn that history while making natural salt from seawater.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Kawamachi Terrace Yuriage

A shopping complex at Yuriage, the mouth of the Natori River, 26 minutes by bus from Natori Station.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Aone Onsen Yuki Akari

Local people and children build many small snow shrines and set candles inside — a winter event particular to a hot spring in the hills.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Jōba Taiken

Ride through the nature of Zao, seeing the seasons from the saddle.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Shiogama Minato Matsuri

Two sacred barges carrying portable shrines cross Matsushima Bay, followed by about 100 escort boats. One of Japan's three great boat festivals.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Aji Shirahama Kaisuiyokujō

A shallow beach whose water is among the clearest in Tohoku. Ajishima offers fishing all year.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Kurikoma Dashi Matsuri

On the eve, hand dancing and floats moving by night; on the day itself, the musicians play together and the floats go round the town.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Hatto

A wheat-flour dish of the north of the prefecture. The dough is rested, pulled thin and dropped into soup. Also called hittsumi.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Shiroishi Umen

Wheat noodles stretched without oil. They are notably short, nine centimetres, and Shiroishi people have eaten them daily.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Shiogama-shi Uoichiba

A high-hygiene market completed in 2017. From the viewing route on the second floor you can watch the auction.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Nihon Kokeshi-kan

In Naruko Park, showing some 5,000 traditional kokeshi, with makers demonstrating and painting to try.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Kenritsu Toshi Kōen Matsushima Kōen

A park along the Matsushima shore, made up of the central and green plazas and Namiuchihama park, with Godaido and Fukuurajima among them.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi

Home ground of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, with a Ferris wheel and a carousel as well.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Oni Kojūrō Matsuri

A festival in Shiroishi in honour of Katakura Kojuro Shigenaga.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Hoya

Called the pineapple of the sea. Not a shellfish but a sea squirt, it grows attached to rock. Miyagi produces more than anywhere in Japan.

宮城県 · Regional selections

Himawari Matsuri

420,000 sunflowers on a hill at Sanbongi in Osaki. Ice cream and sweets are made from the sunflowers too.

埼玉県 · Regional selections

Hanyu Service Area (Inbound), Onihei Edo-dokoro

羽生市 食べる／飲食店／買う／お菓子・スイーツ／物産品・直売所／その他／道の駅・PA／東部エリア

A motorway rest area recreating the Edo of Shotaro Ikenami's Onihei Hankacho, modelled on the row of stalls at Ryogoku Hirokoji.