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Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

4.0

253 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Nakano 4-6

Located in Takasago Chuo Park one kilometer from Sendai Port, Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium has 100 aquarium exhibits. The aquarium’s centerpiece is a giant aquarium recreating the sea of Sanriku, and the aquarium raises some 25 thousand creatures spanning 50 species. The Umino-Mori Stadium on the second floor is one of the largest such facilities in Tohoku and seats around 1,000 people. One of the unique features about this stadium is its lack of an acrylic divider between the audience and the performers. During a show, visitors can view vibrant dolphin and sea lion performances up close.

Some of the tanks, I feel like, may be a nit too small. The sea turtle aquarium was cramped I didn’t take a photo because I felt bad for them. The rest of the tanks were nice! I got to see a lot of...
Sendai Anpanman Children's Museum & Mall

4.0

91 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Odawarayamamotochou 101-14

Sendai Anpanman Children’s Museum & Mall is an interactive participatory facility where visitors can have fun seeing, touching, and experiencing. Visitors can have fun meeting and interacting with friends from Anpanman, and there are also goods and food shops, a restaurant salon. The facility has a sense of security for parents with its place for strollers, coin lockers, and a spacious baby room. It is approximately 15 minutes by car from Sendai-Miyagi Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway.

I believe every kids or even some mum will go gogo gaga over this Anpanman museum. A famous character from Japan children superhero. It’s really cute with all the toys and dolls and accessories with...
Kanezaki Sohonten Sasakama Hall

4.0

65 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Wakabayashi-ku Tsurushiromachi 6-65

こんなところに藤城清治の影絵の展示があるなんて、それも無料で観られるなんて。大きな壁画の作品もあり、とても良かったです。
Akiu Village Agurie-no-Mori

4.0

46 Reviews

Shopping

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Moniwa Nakayachiminami 32-1

Agurie-no-Mori is a roadside station-like facility within the Akiu Village situated on the Akiu Highway. The place has a food court which offers dishes made from beef tongue, wild vegetables, and Akiu vegetables, and sweets such as ice cream, etc. There is also a small farmer’s market, a shop which sells various items and souvenirs, and Kikusuian store. Outside the food court on the terrace is a foot spa, Chapporin, which uses green tea to warm your feet!

お土産も、露地ものも買えるいわゆる道の駅なんですが、地場野菜等の他観光客にも好適な土産が買えて良かったです。お菓子の種類も多くて助かりました。価格帯は少し高めかな? 子供を遊ばせる広場もあります。
Sendai Yagiyama Benyland

3.5

34 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Nagamachi Koeji 19-1

This is an amusement park in Taihaku Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture with great access being about a five minute walk from Yagiyama Zoological Park Station. It is an amusement spot representative of Sendai, the City of Trees. The park has 30 rides from the thrilling to family orientated and more than 20 of them can be enjoyed by children over the age of three making it a great spot with children. In addition, there are various events such as character shows and cosplay costume parties held at the park which are gaining popularity. Also, at the renewed shop, limited items etc. are available for purchase.

Good old Benyland! I am a roller coaster enthusiast and it’s safe to say benyland is the definition of a Jet coaster Park:)
Sendai Daikannon

3.5

16 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Izumi-ku Sanezawa Naka Yangnan 31-3

This temple is about a ten-minute drive from Kunimi Station on the JR Senzan Line. It's also known popularly as Sendai Daikannon after the 100-meter-high statue with this name. Built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Sendai municipal system and to wish for prosperity in the 21st century, its foundation reaches 21 meters underground. Daikokudo with its red torii gates is also on the grounds. It honors Aburakake Daikokuten and is known as a matchmaking spot. Every month on the 18th, Kannon Bodhisattva's festival day, they hold lectures that expound the teachings of Buddhism in an easily accessible way. Anyone interested in Buddhism can participate for free. They also hold pet memorial services.

The statue is huge, the largest in the world when it was built but has since slipped down the rankings a bit. Its free to walk around it and there is a small entry fee when we went inside it. On the...
Ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Sendai Arahama Elementary School

4.5

31 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Wakabayashi-ku Arahamashin Horihata 32-1

Whilst a little tricky to get to, Arahama school is definitely worth a visit. It’s possible to see the water level of the tsunami both outside and inside the building, which is pretty fascinating...
Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum

4.0

53 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Nagamachiminami 4-3-1

A museum where you can experience the Paleolithic located a five minute walk from the subway Nagamachi-Minami Station. The museum conserves and displays the actual Tomizawa Site, an archeological site and one of only a few in the world dating back 20 thousand years to the Paleolithic. The museum also has exciting exhibits which recreate what life looked like for human beings at that time. In the basement gallery, visitors can view the remains for a bonfire and forest from 20 thousand years ago. In the outdoor ice age forest exhibit, visitors can view seasonal flowers and insects in a recreated ice age forest.

年代とともに何重にも積み重なった地層をていねいにはぎ取って、２万年前のたき火のあとを見せてくれています。当時のようすを再現した映像や、子供にもわかる説明もあってとても勉強になりました。長町南駅から５分ほどで歩けます。
MITSUI OUTLET PARK SENDAI PORT

Shopping

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Nakano 3-7-2

The Mitsui Outlet Park Sendai Port features a diverse array of shops, foods, and restaurants, and is famous for having Tohoku’s biggest Ferris wheel— “Port Flower”. The Ferris wheel underwent renewal in summer of 2017, and now features colorful LED lights which turn on at dusk. It’s a great spot to enjoy with family, friends, or that special someone.
Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Miyagino 2-11-6

This stadium that opened in 1950 is now home to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Having adopted a system of naming rights, it has changed names several times over the years. Free stadium visit events are held for one to two days in a month during which visitors can tour the stadium free of charge. Behind the left side of Kobo Park Miyagi is a park called Smile Glico Park with a Ferris Wheel and merry-go-round. The stadium is a five-minute walk from JR Miyagi Nohara Station, and there is also a convenient shuttle bus from Sendai Station that only takes eight minutes.
Sendai Kaleidoscopes Art Museum

4.0

22 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Moniwa Matsuba 1-2

"A 15-minute drive from the Sendai-minami interchange and a 20-minute drive from the Sendai-Miyagi interchange. This art museum is also located right next to the ""Matsuba"" bus stop. As its name states, this museum displays kaleidoscopes and also holds kaleidoscope making classes. The museum displays a wide array of kaleidoscopes, from huge kaleidoscopes to antique examples to kaleidoscopes made by modern artists. Some of the museum's kaleidoscopes can also be used to take pictures. The museum's short kaleidoscope making classes are fun, easy, and take just 10 to 30 minutes. The museum shop sells inexpensively priced kaleidoscopes to true kaleidoscope masterpieces."

This is worth the trip from Sendai! We were impressed with the creativity and diversity of kaleidoscopes. Really an international collection! Great for adults with it without children!
Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Shrine

4.0

17 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Miyagino-ku Tsutsujigaoka 105-3

This shrine is a three-minute walk from the JR Senseki Line's Tsutsujigaoka Station. It honors Tenijn, a god of scholarship and the deified form of Sugawara no Michizane. Loved by the locals, every year during exam season it fills with students and their parents praying for success. There are a number of stone stele with haiku carved on them on the precincts, including one by Matsuo Basho. There's also a nade-ushi statue of a cow tied to a legend concerning Sugawara no Michizane. Lots of visitors come annually to see various flowers in bloom, like cherry blossoms, azaleas, and Sugawara no Michizane's beloved plum blossoms.

榴岡公園を見学した後で駅の方向に戻る時に立ち寄りました。駅からだと少し距離があります。天満宮ということで菅原道真が祀られています。天満宮らしい梅の木と共に、榴岡公園と同じく桜もあるので季節によって様々な花を愛でることができると思います。
Akiu Great Falls

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Akiumachibaba Otaki

Numbered among Japan’s three most famous waterfalls, Akiu Great Falls is an impressive waterfall six meters across and 55 meters high. A pedestrian path along the river brings visitors close to the falls, where they can hear the roar of the water and feel the white mist produced as they view the impressive sight of powerful torrents falling from the cliff. In autumn, the Akiu Great Falls forms a beautiful scenery with the background of colored maple leaves, which attracts many visitors as well.
Sendai City Museum of History and Folklore

3.5

28 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Sendai-shi Miyagino-ku Gorin 1-3-7 Tsutsujigaoka Park Nai

This museum is located inside Tsutsujigaoka Park in Gorin 1-Chome, Miyagino Ward, Sendai City. The museum was built inside the former barracks of the old Fourth Infantry Regimentof the Japanese Imperial Army’s Second Division. It features three permanent exhibits on the themes of agriculture and the lives of farmers in the Sendai region, the lives of people in Sendai’s urban areas, and the lives of the soldiers of the old Fourth Infantry Regiment, respectively. The museum also features a permanent exhibit on disaster-affected regions and holds special exhibits. There is also a hands-on learning room where visitors can play with toys from yesteryear.

榴岡公園の中にある資料館です。民俗資料館ということで明治以降の暮らしを分かりやすく紹介してあります。外観も県内最古の洋風木造建築とのことでなかなかレトロな感じです。時間があれば行ってもいいかなというレベルの場所です。
Akiu Shrine

3.5

12 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Akiumachinagafukuro Shimizukubokita 22

Akiu Shrine is located right at the center of Akiu Sato in Sendai City. It's said that the deity of Kumano-jinja Shrine was first brought here over 1,200 years ago when the shogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro subjugated the Emishi in the year 808. In the Muromachi period, the shrine came to be associated with a war god, and today it's honored by a flow of visitors from around the country for help winning contests and games. An unusual persimmon tree on the grounds is also enshrined as a god of matchmaking. Other sacred trees include a gingko dedicated to childrearing, a lucky cherry tree, and a luster-leaf holly tree with matchmaking powers.

大きな特徴的なものは無いかと思いますが地元の神社的な存在でしょうか。子宝なオブジェがリアルで吹き出しそうになりました。
SELVA

4.0

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Izumi-ku Izumichuou 1-4-1

A shopping mall to the east of and a one minute walk from Izumi-Chuo Station on the Sendai Subway Namboku Line. The mall is connected to Izumi-Chuo Station via a pedestrian deck on the second floor and a passageway below the deck on the first. The mall is occupied by a variety of tenants, including fashionable apparel shops, lifestyle goods stores, restaurants, and cafes. The mall has a particularly large selection of women's clothing shops, stores for children, food shops, and other establishments aimed at women in their 20s to young mothers with children. There are also culture classes such as workshops and seminars as well as art school classes for children held here.

泉中央駅直結の商業施設です。隣接するアリオとも上空通過で繋がっていて、両施設を行き来する人は多いと思います。食料品エリアは混み合いますが、それ以外のフロアは空いているので買い物はしやすいです。もう少し出店する店が良いと人が集まるかな？
Akiu Craft Park

3.5

19 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Akiumachiyumoto Uehara 54

Akiu Craft Park consists of nine craft “households” that live in the village while continuously applying themselves to their craft and producing authentic wares. Those with reservations can experience koma (top for spinning play) decoration, kokeshi wooden doll decoration, chopstick lacquering, handkerchief indigo dyeing, and jigsaw woodworking. There are also seasonal events that visitors can enjoy while walking through the site. It’s about 15 minutes by car from the Sendai Minami Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway.

This is a lovely place to do crafts or to purchase crafts. The one downside is that it is hard to get here by public transit. Worth a stop if you are coming to the area!
Ichitaro no Yu

4.0

14 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Miyagi Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Akiumachi

This hot spring bathhouse is located inside Tenshukaku Natural Park Prefectural Route 131 in Genbehara, Akiumachi Yumoto, Taihaku Ward, Sendai City. It uses natural hypotonic and mildly alkaline hot springs said to help with conditions such as nerve pain, muscle soreness, joint pain, chronic skin diseases, chronic women’s diseases, cuts, burns, and sickliness in children. The bathhouse, which is built of Japanese cypress, features two different outdoor baths. Guests can even take advantage of weekday-only packages that include a meal at the nearby soba restaurant and admission to the adjacent Japanese garden.

日帰り温泉、食事、庭園入園料が市太郎セットになって1780円。ただし、平日のみということなので土日は別々の支払いが必要。この市太郎セットは実に割安で、温泉がまず素晴らしいんです。成分表では無色透明の低張性弱アルカリ性温泉となっていますが若干茶色めでしぉっぱいので鉄分の混じったナトリウム泉でしょうか。それと、ほんの少しだけ硫黄の匂いがします。源泉かけ流しということですが源泉の温度が低いの...
Sendai City Wild Plants Garden

4.5

12 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Mogasaki 2-1-1

Sendai Wild Plants Garden, which extends over the western slopes of Mt. Dainenji, is a botanical garden that is mainly focused on the wild plants of Japan’s Tohoku Region. Visitors can view characteristic local plants such as iris and acorn-bearing oak trees, as well as beautiful seasonal flowers. The Garden also has extensive grass lawns, and is a popular place for relaxing under the shade of the Japanese zelkova trees. A variety of special events are held in the Garden, including photography exhibitions and nature observation activities, etc. The autumn Bush Clover Festival attracts particularly large numbers of tourists, with concerts, moon-viewing parties, etc.

その時期の見ごろのお花をパネル展示してあったり丁寧な仕事をされている植物園です。豆子蜂（人を刺したりしないとても小さな蜂）の家の展示があったり楽しめる場所です。
Saichi

4.0

317 Reviews

Shopping

Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Taihaku-ku Akiumachiyumoto Yakushi 27

A supermarket in Akiu closely tied to the local community. Ohagi sweet rice balls and ready-to-eat side dishes alone make up half of the store's annual sales. The ready-to-eat corner is filled with the store's renowned Akiu ohagi and around 5,000 of these popular, tasty treats are sold on a given weekday. The store also boasts a record of 25,000 ohagi sold in a single day. The store sells standard anko sweet bean, kinako toasted soybean flour, and sesame seed ohagi in packages of varying number. In addition, from October to May, the store also sells unusual natto fermented soybean ohagi.

さいち名物のおはぎとその他の食品を購入するために、訪れました。 GWだったこともあり、開店時間の９時よりも30分前に行きましたが、その時にすでに５０人ほど並んでいました。開店時間には100人以上の行列ができていました。開店して１０分後くらいに、ようやくおはぎとその他の食品を購入することができました。この日は、あずき、胡麻、黄な粉、納豆のおはぎがあり、出来立てでまだ温かいものでした。なお、卵...

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Miyagi Areas

Lying along the northeastern coast of Japan, Miyagi prefecture is home to lashings of natural parks, oysters, and hot springs. While the bustling city of Sendai offers some simple city entertainment, it’s the Matsushima islands that deserve the most attention, having boosted the prefecture’s reputation as one of Japan’s most scenic views.