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Osaki Hachimangu
The hall Date Masamune had built is a National Treasure, and is held to be the oldest surviving building in the black-lacquer-and-colour Momoyama style.
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Mutsu Kokubunji Yakushido
The Yakushido rebuilt by Date Masamune still stands, carrying the line of the provincial temples into northern Japan.
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Sendai Toshogu
A Toshogu built by Date Tadamune. The main hall and karamon gate are Important Cultural Properties.
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Rinnoji (Sendai)
One of the funerary temples of the Date family, known for its three-storey pagoda and its garden.
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Akiu Otaki Fudoson
It stands beside Akiu Otaki, one of the three great waterfalls of Japan.
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Sendai Daikannon
A Kannon figure a hundred metres tall. Worshippers climb up inside it.
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Atago Jinja (Sendai)
It has the largest seated great tengu figure in Japan and looks out over the city of Sendai.
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Aoba Jinja
It enshrines Date Masamune, and is the shrine from which the Sendai Aoba Festival takes its name.
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Sendai Tanabata Festival
Lavish bamboo decorations fill central Sendai, and streamers turn the streets into a sea of colour.
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Akiu Onsen
A bathing place of the Date family, counted among the three imperial hot springs of Japan.
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Miyagi Museum of Art
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
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Sendai City Museum
Holds the National Treasure records of the Keicho embassy to Rome, and Date Masamune's black armour.
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Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum
Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.
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Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
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Miyagi Prefectural Library
By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.
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Jotei no Mori Museum
A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.
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Sendai Jomon Forest Park
Built on a middle Jomon settlement, where visitors can try potting and fire-making.
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Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.