36 Sights in Sendai, Japan (with Map and Images)

Aoba Shrine is the memorial shrine of Date Masamune, located in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, near the site of the former Aoba Castle. The shrine was built in 1873 by petition of former retainers of the Date clan of former Sendai Domain to enshrine the deified spirit (kami) of Date Masamune under the name of Takefuruhiko-no-mikoto. This was in accordance with a practice which began in the Bakumatsu period and continued into the early Meiji period of establishing a shrine to the founders of the daimyō clan which ruled each feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. Under the State Shinto ranking system, the shrine was designated as a prefectural shrine.

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Sendai City Yagiyama Zoological Park is a zoo located in Taihaku Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The park opened in 1965 (Showa 40). It is located on Mt. Yagi overlooking the center of Sendai City. Across the street from the park is the amusement park Yagiyama Benny Land, and to Mt. Aoba, where Sendai Castle Ruins are located, it is just across the Yagiyama Bridge. As of 2018 (Heisei 30), the number of animals bred is 581 points of 130 species.

Wikipedia: 仙台市八木山動物公園 (JA)

Manchanji is a Tiantai Sect temple located in this town, Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture (the location in Overview of Great Japanese Monasteries Volume II is Yuansi Trail, the old name taking town). The grade is seven. This deity is the Holy Guanyin, and it is the guardian Buddha of the Emperor of Light. The mountain is the achievement mountain. This is the No.9 Zazu of Sendai 33 Guanyin Spirit Field.

Wikipedia: 満願寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Sengakuin (仙岳院) is a tower temple of the Tendai sect and Kōkoku-ji temple founded by Date Tadamune, the second feudal lord of Sendai Domain, located in Toshogu, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Sendai Toshogu Shrine and Hiraizumi Chusonji Temple. From the history of its construction, the official name is considered to be Sengakuin, but since the Edo period, Kokokuji has been called Sengakuin.

Wikipedia: 仙岳院 (JA)

Basho no Tsuji is a crossroads that was the center of the castle town of Sendai Castle during the Edo period. It was the intersection of Omachi-dori and Oshu Kaido extending from the castle's Otemon gate, and was the starting point of the town division. Near the boundary of the current Ichiban-cho and Omachi in Aoba-ku, Sendai City, the road marker of Miyagi Prefecture (里程元標) is installed here.

Wikipedia: 芭蕉の辻 (JA)

The Tōmizuka Kofun (遠見塚古墳) is a keyhole-shaped kofun burial mound located in the Wakabayashi ward of the city of Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It was constructed in the early to middle Kofun period, or around the late 4th to early 5th century AD, as the tomb of one or more of the gōzoku ruling the Miyagi Plain region. The site is a National Historic Site.

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Daihara Forest Park (台原森林公園, Daihara Forest Park) is a forest park located in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It was developed as part of the Meiji 100th anniversary commemorative project and opened in April 1973 (Showa 48). It is located in the Nanakita Hills, and the gorge created by the tributaries of the Nanakita River and the surrounding forests remain in the park.

Wikipedia: 台原森林公園 (JA)

Mutsu Kokubun-ji (陸奥国分寺) is a Buddhist temple in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Japan, belonging to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and is the provincial temple ("kokubunji") of former Mutsu Province. The grounds of the temple are a National Historic Site. and one of its structures, the early Edo period Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) is an Important Cultural Property.

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Zhenfu Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Tugou, Ruolin District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. No. Guangze Mountain Wuliang Hospital. Located on the left bank of Guang Lai River. Founded in the 13th century, Gesilingdenmi County was moved to Ida Mountain and then Sendai under the control of Idaho. It is one of the two Buddhist monasteries in Sendai.

Wikipedia: 真福寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Miyagi Prefectural Auditorium (宮城県民会館) is a 1,590-seat multi-purpose hall located in Sendai, Japan. It opened in 1964 and has hosted artists such as Cheap Trick, Whitesnake and Mötley Crüe. After the sale of the naming rights, Tokyo Electron Hall Miyagi became, on April 1, 2008, the preferred nickname for Miyagi Prefectural Auditorium.

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Ochiai Kannon-do (Ochiai Kannon-do) is a Buddhist temple located in Shiromaru Ochiai, Taihaku Ward, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Shugendo Muawzan Ochiaiji (originally Daizen-in) was a separate temple. Currently, it belongs to the Kwangzai-ji Temple of the Shingon sect Chizan school temple (Shiromaru Watarido, Taihaku District).

Wikipedia: 落合観音堂 (JA)

Western Temple is a pure land temple located above and below Okura in Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The mountain is Jileshan. This statue is the portrait axis of Amitabha Buddha Tathagata. Founded by Liang Nian of Guanlian Society. It is rarely called a formal name, but is generally called a definition Tathagata.

Wikipedia: 西方寺 (仙台市) (JA), Website

Sendai Municipal Arahama Elementary School was a public elementary school located in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture from 1873 to 2016. The school building was damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. It has been open to the public as a relic of the earthquake since May 2017.

Wikipedia: 仙台市立荒浜小学校 (JA)

Tomizawa Ruins (富沢古, Tomizawaiseki) is a complex archaeological site located in Nagamachi Minami 4-chome, Taihaku Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Forests dating back about 20,000 years (Upper Paleolithic) and the remains of rice paddies from the Yayoi period have been discovered.

Wikipedia: 富沢遺跡 (JA)

Sendai Science Museum is a science museum located in Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The site is located in Taiyuan Forest Park. Formerly known as Sendai Science Education Facility "Science Room" opened in 1952 (Showa 27), it opened as Sendai Science Museum in 1968 (Showa 43).

Wikipedia: 仙台市科学館 (JA)

Sendai Tōshōgū (仙台東照宮) is the memorial shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Five of its buildings, all dating to 1654, have been designated Important Cultural Properties. The torii and gates were damaged in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Wikipedia: Sendai Tōshōgū (EN)

The Sendai City War Damage Reconstruction Memorial Hall is a public facility built to commemorate the recovery from the Sendai air raids, located along Hajimachi-dori near the intersection of Hirose-dori and Bansui-dori in the western part of central Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 仙台市戦災復興記念館 (JA)

The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1996.

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Manpukuji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect Chizan school located in the southeast of central Sendai City, in the eastern part of the Aramachi shopping street. It is built on the border between Sendai Castle Town and Wakabayashi Castle Town in the early Edo period.

Wikipedia: 満福寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Tōshō-ji (東昌寺) is a temple of the Rinzai sect of the Tofukuji sect located in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. One of the Five Zen Temples of Kitayama along with the Kitayama of Sendai. The mountain number is Wuwei Mountain. The main statue is Buddha.

Wikipedia: 東昌寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Sendai Literature Museum is a literary museum and social education facility in Sendai City, located in Kitane, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is adjacent to the west side of Daihara Forest Park and is also one of the entrances and exits of the park.

Wikipedia: 仙台文学館 (JA)

Fujuyuan is a Cao Dongzong temple located in Taibai District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The mountain number is Nangu Mountain. This deity is Holy Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. A cloth bag statue dedicated to one of the Seven Blessings gods in Sendai, Austria.

Wikipedia: 福聚院 (仙台市) (JA)

Ryuun-in (竜雲院) is a temple of the Soto sect located in Shihei-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The name of the town where the temple is located is derived from the name of Hayashi Kohei, a Sendai feudal lord who is buried in the temple.

Wikipedia: 龍雲院 (JA)

Sakuragoka Shrine is a shrine located in the West Park on the left bank of Hirose River, west of downtown Sendai. The original company is a county society. The surrounding area of the company is famous as one of the few cherry blossom places in Sendai.

Wikipedia: 櫻岡大神宮 (JA)

Sendai City Izumi Cultural Creation Center is a cultural complex located in the central Izumi subcenter in the northern part of Sendai City. It is commonly known as "Izumiti 21" (Izumiti ni Juuichi). In general, it is called by the common name.

Wikipedia: 仙台市泉文化創造センター (JA)

Danian Temple is a Huangbaizong Temple located in Menmen Town, Taibai District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The mountain number is Bilegged Mountain. The first mountain is Puying Iron Ox. This statue is Sakyamuni Buddha. The grade is sixth.

Wikipedia: 大年寺 (JA)

Fayun Temple is a Rilianzong Temple located in Lianfang, Ruolin District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Guangrun Mountain. Old Benshan is Ono Benyuan Temple and Xiaoxi Fayuan. There is also Zhiyuan Temple nearby.

Wikipedia: 法運寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Yanliu Shrine is located in Xiong Gen, Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The Edo period was the guard of Xiong Gen Village, and the Meiji period became the village community. The official will mark the words "Salt Flow Shrine".

Wikipedia: 塩流神社 (JA)

Akiu Shrine (秋保神社, Akiu-jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Shimizukubokita, Nagabukuro, Akiu-cho, Taihaku Ward, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Known as the "God of Competition," there are many dedicated banners on the precincts.

Wikipedia: 秋保神社 (JA)

Foyan Temple is an authentic temple of Rilian located in Ruolin District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The mountain name is Falong Mountain. The ancestors of root benefactors are mostly merchants and warriors from the Edo period.

Wikipedia: 仏眼寺 (仙台市) (JA)

Seiji Nakamoto Modern Art Museum is the personal art museum of Seiji Nakamoto, an artist located in Erding Mu, Dongsheng Mountain, Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Collect and display the works of Seiji Nakamoto.

Wikipedia: 中本誠司現代美術館 (JA)

Sendai Daikannon (仙台大観音), officially known as the Sendai Tendou Byakue Daikannon (仙台天道白衣大観音), is a large statue of Byakue Kannon (白衣観音) bearing a gem in her hand located in Sendai, Japan.

Wikipedia: Sendai Daikannon (EN)

Changchuan'an is a Cao Dongzong temple located in Huangcho, Ruolin District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. There are also cases where "Changchuan'an" is written in new fonts. The mountain number is Yiye Mountain.

Wikipedia: 昌傳庵 (JA)

Sendai Bread Superman Children's Museum and Mall (Sendai Bread Superman Children's Museum and Mall) is a "Bread Superman" theme park located in Yamamoto, Odahara, Miyagi Ye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 仙台アンパンマンこどもミュージアム&モール (JA), Website

Camoy Art Museum is an exhibition facility located at No.5 Bridge in Qingye District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The nickname is the gallery kupukupu. The old name was "Kamei Memorial Exhibition Hall".

Wikipedia: カメイ美術館 (JA)

Suwa Shrine is located in Taibai District, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The chief sacrifice god is the god of building the imperial name, and he worships 6 pillars, such as the Great God of Heaven.

Wikipedia: 諏訪神社 (仙台市太白区) (JA)