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Sendai

Sendai (仙台) is the largest city in the Tohoku region of Japan's Honshu island, with around 1 million people. It is the capital of Miyagi prefecture. Wikivoyage

Population 1,061,177 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Japan

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Japan
Tourist office · 1.4 km Tourist Information Center

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Donto-sai Festival

    January

    Held at the Osaki Hachiman Shrine on January 14 every year

  2. Michinoku-Yosakoi Festival

    October

    The Sendai Michinoku Yosakoi Festival was established in 1998 as a successor to the Kochi Yosakoi Festival.

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Sendai); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 96 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Sendai 1.4 km, Kita-Sendai 1.5 km, Toshogu 1.8 km, Tsutsujigaoka 2.4 km, Kitayama 2.4 km, Tohoku Fukushi University 2.7 km, Kunimi 3.2 km, Miyaginohara 3.2 km, Rikuzen-Haranomachi 3.6 km, Nigatake 4.3 km, Kuzuoka 4.4 km, Higashi-Sendai 4.5 km, Nagamachi 4.8 km, Taishido 5.7 km, Kozurushinden 5.8 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.