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Akiu / Sakunami

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History / Culture / Tour

Sendai Daikannon

3.5

16 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Izumi-ku Sanezawa Naka Yangnan 31-3

This temple is about a ten-minute drive from Kunimi Station on the JR Senzan Line. It's also known popularly as Sendai Daikannon after the 100-meter-high statue with this name. Built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Sendai municipal system and to wish for prosperity in the 21st century, its foundation reaches 21 meters underground. Daikokudo with its red torii gates is also on the grounds. It honors Aburakake Daikokuten and is known as a matchmaking spot. Every month on the 18th, Kannon Bodhisattva's festival day, they hold lectures that expound the teachings of Buddhism in an easily accessible way. Anyone interested in Buddhism can participate for free. They also hold pet memorial services.

The statue is huge, the largest in the world when it was built but has since slipped down the rankings a bit. Its free to walk around it and there is a small entry fee when we went inside it. On the...
Ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Sendai Arahama Elementary School

4.5

31 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Wakabayashi-ku Arahamashin Horihata 32-1

Whilst a little tricky to get to, Arahama school is definitely worth a visit. It’s possible to see the water level of the tsunami both outside and inside the building, which is pretty fascinating...
Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum

4.0

53 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Nagamachiminami 4-3-1

A museum where you can experience the Paleolithic located a five minute walk from the subway Nagamachi-Minami Station. The museum conserves and displays the actual Tomizawa Site, an archeological site and one of only a few in the world dating back 20 thousand years to the Paleolithic. The museum also has exciting exhibits which recreate what life looked like for human beings at that time. In the basement gallery, visitors can view the remains for a bonfire and forest from 20 thousand years ago. In the outdoor ice age forest exhibit, visitors can view seasonal flowers and insects in a recreated ice age forest.

年代とともに何重にも積み重なった地層をていねいにはぎ取って、２万年前のたき火のあとを見せてくれています。当時のようすを再現した映像や、子供にもわかる説明もあってとても勉強になりました。長町南駅から５分ほどで歩けます。
Sendai Kaleidoscopes Art Museum

4.0

22 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Moniwa Matsuba 1-2

"A 15-minute drive from the Sendai-minami interchange and a 20-minute drive from the Sendai-Miyagi interchange. This art museum is also located right next to the ""Matsuba"" bus stop. As its name states, this museum displays kaleidoscopes and also holds kaleidoscope making classes. The museum displays a wide array of kaleidoscopes, from huge kaleidoscopes to antique examples to kaleidoscopes made by modern artists. Some of the museum's kaleidoscopes can also be used to take pictures. The museum's short kaleidoscope making classes are fun, easy, and take just 10 to 30 minutes. The museum shop sells inexpensively priced kaleidoscopes to true kaleidoscope masterpieces."

This is worth the trip from Sendai! We were impressed with the creativity and diversity of kaleidoscopes. Really an international collection! Great for adults with it without children!
Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Shrine

4.0

17 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Tsutsujigaoka 105-3

This shrine is a three-minute walk from the JR Senseki Line's Tsutsujigaoka Station. It honors Tenijn, a god of scholarship and the deified form of Sugawara no Michizane. Loved by the locals, every year during exam season it fills with students and their parents praying for success. There are a number of stone stele with haiku carved on them on the precincts, including one by Matsuo Basho. There's also a nade-ushi statue of a cow tied to a legend concerning Sugawara no Michizane. Lots of visitors come annually to see various flowers in bloom, like cherry blossoms, azaleas, and Sugawara no Michizane's beloved plum blossoms.

榴岡公園を見学した後で駅の方向に戻る時に立ち寄りました。駅からだと少し距離があります。天満宮ということで菅原道真が祀られています。天満宮らしい梅の木と共に、榴岡公園と同じく桜もあるので季節によって様々な花を愛でることができると思います。
Sendai City Museum of History and Folklore

3.5

28 Reviews

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Miyagi Sendai-shi Miyagino-ku Gorin 1-3-7 Tsutsujigaoka Park Nai

This museum is located inside Tsutsujigaoka Park in Gorin 1-Chome, Miyagino Ward, Sendai City. The museum was built inside the former barracks of the old Fourth Infantry Regimentof the Japanese Imperial Army’s Second Division. It features three permanent exhibits on the themes of agriculture and the lives of farmers in the Sendai region, the lives of people in Sendai’s urban areas, and the lives of the soldiers of the old Fourth Infantry Regiment, respectively. The museum also features a permanent exhibit on disaster-affected regions and holds special exhibits. There is also a hands-on learning room where visitors can play with toys from yesteryear.

榴岡公園の中にある資料館です。民俗資料館ということで明治以降の暮らしを分かりやすく紹介してあります。外観も県内最古の洋風木造建築とのことでなかなかレトロな感じです。時間があれば行ってもいいかなというレベルの場所です。
Akiu Shrine

3.5

12 Reviews

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Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Akiumachinagafukuro Shimizukubokita 22

Akiu Shrine is located right at the center of Akiu Sato in Sendai City. It's said that the deity of Kumano-jinja Shrine was first brought here over 1,200 years ago when the shogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro subjugated the Emishi in the year 808. In the Muromachi period, the shrine came to be associated with a war god, and today it's honored by a flow of visitors from around the country for help winning contests and games. An unusual persimmon tree on the grounds is also enshrined as a god of matchmaking. Other sacred trees include a gingko dedicated to childrearing, a lucky cherry tree, and a luster-leaf holly tree with matchmaking powers.

大きな特徴的なものは無いかと思いますが地元の神社的な存在でしょうか。子宝なオブジェがリアルで吹き出しそうになりました。
Sendai City Jomon Site Park

3.5

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Yamadauenodaichou 10-1

Four kilometers from the Tohoku Expressway Sendai-minami interchange on National Route 286 traveling towards downtown Sendai City. This facility, dedicated to providing visitors with the opportunity to come in contact with and experience Jomon culture, was built to conserve and utilize the Yamadauenodai Jomon period archeological site. There are recreations of the grove, village square, storage pits, and pit dwellings which existed at this vast Jomon period village some 4,000 years ago, reproducing the village and surrounding environment as it once looked. Fun Jomon period classes such as pottery and stone tool creation, fire making, and magatama comma-shaped jewelry making are held in the village square. A variety of events are also held here such as recreations of Jomon period festivals.

A wonderful museum for anyone interested in Jomon history. Its especially good for children as they have so many stone age crafts to try for young children. We made a clay wild boar for ¥100. You can...
Sendai Tram Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Tomizawa Nakagawara 2-1 Chikatetsu

This exhibit facility is located inside the Tomizawa Subway Yard in Nakagawara, Tomizawa, Taihaku Ward, Sendai City. It features exhibits about the municipal trams that transported the people of Sendai for 50 years until 1976. Visitors can even enjoy taking pictures while wearing a subway conductor’s uniform.
Kanezaki Tanabata Museum

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Wakabayashi-ku Tsurushiromachi 6-65

Five minutes from the Sendai-higashi interchange on the Sendai-Tobu Road. Located inside Kanezaki Kamaboko no Kuni Sasakamakan, a facility where you can fully enjoy the food and culture of Miyagi, this interactive museum is Japan's first dedicated to the Tanabata festival. No matter what time of year it is, visitors can always experience the charms of Japan's Tanabata festival here. In addition to the elegance of the modern day Tanabata festival, visitors can also come in contact with the Tanabata festival as it was celebrated during Japan's feudal states era and Meiji and Taisho periods. There's also a standing exhibition dedicated to Sendai Shikakemono, string operated puppet theater almost never seen today; visitors can even try operating some actual puppets themselves.
Xebio Arena Sendai

4.0

13 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Asutonagamachi 1-chome 4-10

仙台の中心部からとてもアクセスしやすい場所にあります。JRだと東北本線か常磐線で「長町(ながまち)」下車。地下鉄だと南北線で「長町」下車です。近くにはIKEAやスポーツ用品店で有名なゼビオや、駅前も飲食店やスーパーがあったり、隣の地下鉄の駅(基本的に歩ける距離)には「地底ミュージアム」もありますので、イベントまで時間を潰せます。また、アリーナ前の広場は広々としているため、バトミントン等の遊...
Atago Shrine

4.0

31 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Mukaiyama 4-17-1

仙台市市街地の南東にある神社です。神社からは仙台市市街地を一望でき、凄く眺めが良いです。きっと夜景も綺麗だと思います。
Sendai Sun Plaza Hall

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Miyagino-ku Tsutsujigaoka 5-11-1
Miyagi Industry Community Center Motodate

3.0

5 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Miyagino-ku Minato 3-chome 1-7

釣りの帰りに夢メッセみやぎによりました。この日は高校生のイベントがあるらしく大変混雑してました。食のイベントもやるので、その時にはまた来たいです。
Taikanmitutera

3.5

33 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Izumi-ku Sanezawa Naka Shannan 31-36

Such a beautiful statue!! We drove to Sendai just to see her beauty. I was definitely not disappointed
Team Smile Sendai PIT

4.5

3 Reviews

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Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Asutonagamachi 2-2

Went to a concert at Sendai PIT for the first time this year. The location is good. Its very close to the Nagamachi Subway Station, which is only about an 8 minute subway ride from Sendai Station...
Mutsu Kokubunji Temple Yakushido

4.0

26 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Wakabayashi-ku Kinoshita 3-8-1

陸奥国分寺薬師堂というので国分寺所縁の建物なんて思ってきましたが、正確には国分寺跡に伊達政宗公が薬師寺を建てたとのことです。それでも年代でいえば1607年に創建されたお寺、国の重要文化財に指定されるほどの貴重な寺です。訪問は11月末ということも有り、紅葉した落ち葉が印象的な境内でした。
Koshoji

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Tsutsujigaoka 4-11-11

仙台駅の東側にお寺が集まったエリアがありますが、そこにある東北唯一の日蓮宗本山です。東側から入ったので後で見学しましたが、仙台城から移築されたものといわる山門があります。本堂も立派ですし、五重塔もあり、、本山だけのことはあるなあという感じでした。
Futa Hashira Shrine

4.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Izumi-ku Ichinazaka Nishiura 61

仙台市泉区にある、縁結びで有名な神社との事。泉中央エリアに訪れた機会に行ってきました。住宅街の中の静かな環境の中にありました。おみくじ引くと大吉 (^o^)／新元号：令和が始まって間もない時期、新たな気持ちでお参りしました。成就…どうやろ(;^ω^) 頑張ります！！
Sendai 311 Memorial Community Center

3.5

9 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Wakabayashi-ku Arai Kutsugata 85-4 Chikatetsu

地下鉄東西線の東端にある新井駅ないにある、東日本大震災についての展示スペースです。コンパクトなスペースに震災についての展示がまとまっていました。見て回るのにさほど時間はかからないと思います。屋上からは周辺を見渡すことができます。

Miyagi Akiu / Sakunami

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Miyagi Areas

Lying along the northeastern coast of Japan, Miyagi prefecture is home to lashings of natural parks, oysters, and hot springs. While the bustling city of Sendai offers some simple city entertainment, it’s the Matsushima islands that deserve the most attention, having boosted the prefecture’s reputation as one of Japan’s most scenic views.