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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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Kuryu no Fuji
A wisteria three hundred years old. The shrine enshrines a deity in the form of a snake and draws prayers for wealth.
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Takekoma Jinja
It claims to be one of the three great Inari shrines of Japan, and draws some of the largest new year crowds in northern Japan.
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Zaimokuiwa
A cliff of columnar jointing. A form of faith that stands in awe of natural objects.
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Matsushima
One of the three great views of Japan: more than 260 islands afloat in the bay. Basho is said to have found no verse for it.
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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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Tashirojima
An island with more cats than people. Fishermen long valued cats for catching rats.
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Shiogama Market
Sashimi bought here can be made into a rice bowl on the spot. Tuna landings are among the largest in Japan.
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Entsuin Garden
A garden that reads Matsushima Bay as the islands of the seven gods of fortune.
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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.