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Michinoku Date Masamune Rekishikan
Masamune's life in 25 scenes, using some 200 life-size wax figures.
Juhyo (Snow Monsters)
Ice shapes made by Zao's hard winter. They form only where Aomori fir grows and a strong west wind blows.
Iwakagami-daira Autumn Leaves
The end of the Jukai Line and the trailhead for Mount Kurikoma, where lava and autumn colour overlap.
Sendai-Izumi Premium Outlets
An outlet mall in Izumi ward: 40 minutes by bus from Sendai Station, five minutes by car from the Izumi Smart interchange.
Matsushima Hot-Air Balloon Experience
In the morning a balloon lifts about 20 metres above Matsushima Bay. When conditions allow, the dawn sky shows on the water.
Ikan Mount Tamon
From the Bishamon hall partway up, you look down on Umahanashijima, Jizojima and the other islands of Matsushima Bay. Cherry blossom in spring.
Nikka Whisky Sendai Factory Miyagikyo Distillery
A whisky distillery at Sakunami in Sendai: an hour and five minutes by bus from Sendai Station, 25 minutes by car from the Sendai-Miyagi interchange.
Yakurai Garden
A flower garden backed by Mount Yakurai: tulips and rapeseed in spring, roses and lavender in early summer, cockscomb and salvia in autumn.
Mitsui Outlet Park Sendai Port
An outlet mall at Sendai Port: eight minutes' walk from Nakanosakae Station on the Senseki Line, five minutes by car from the Sendai-Kohoku interchange.
Kura-no-Kyodokan Sairi Yashiki
The Saito family, merchants who prospered from the Edo into the Showa era, gave their house and collection to the town. The shop storehouse is a registered cultural property.
Harako-meshi
An autumn dish eaten mainly around Watari: salmon flesh and roe served over rice.
Sankaku abura-age
Born from tofu made in a soybean-growing district. Eat it straight from the fryer with chilli pepper and soy sauce.
Kankaku Museum
The first museum in Japan built around the five human senses, with displays that make you notice seeing, hearing, touching and smelling.
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.
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.
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 prefectures, a campsite and a hill-country zone.
Ice Aquarium
At minus 20 degrees inside, some 600 fish landed at Kesennuma port — bonito, saury and more — are on display.
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.