Miyagi Zao Juhyo Tour
A heated snow vehicle tours the field of frost-covered trees, stopping so you can get out and see them close up.
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A heated snow vehicle tours the field of frost-covered trees, stopping so you can get out and see them close up.
A gorge about 100 metres deep, cut by uplift and by the Otani River. A prefectural scenic site, known for autumn colour from late October.
Sightseeing boats from the Matsushima pier, touring the oddly shaped islands of the bay.
Masamune's life in 25 scenes, using some 200 life-size wax figures.
Ice shapes made by Zao's hard winter. They form only where Aomori fir grows and a strong west wind blows.
The end of the Jukai Line and the trailhead for Mount Kurikoma, where lava and autumn colour overlap.
An outlet mall in Izumi ward: 40 minutes by bus from Sendai Station, five minutes by car from the Izumi Smart interchange.
In the morning a balloon lifts about 20 metres above Matsushima Bay. When conditions allow, the dawn sky shows on the water.
From the Bishamon hall partway up, you look down on Umahanashijima, Jizojima and the other islands of Matsushima Bay. Cherry blossom in spring.
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.
A flower garden backed by Mount Yakurai: tulips and rapeseed in spring, roses and lavender in early summer, cockscomb and salvia in autumn.
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.
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.
An autumn dish eaten mainly around Watari: salmon flesh and roe served over rice.
Born from tofu made in a soybean-growing district. Eat it straight from the fryer with chilli pepper and soy sauce.
The first museum in Japan built around the five human senses, with displays that make you notice seeing, hearing, touching and smelling.
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.
A geyser called Benten throws boiling water up to 15 metres about every ten minutes. You can cook eggs in the hot spring too.
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.