Kokubunchō (国分町) 国分町
Two thousand seven hundred venues, and at Tōyōken you can eat until three in the morning.
In the Edo period it was the stretch of the Ōshū Kaidō (the great road that ran north from Sendai Castle) where the merchants lived: ten houses on the east side of the road and nine on the west, which is why it was also called ‘the nineteen hearths of Kokubun’. The name comes from the residents the Date clan moved here, people who served the Kokubu family. It turned from a market into an entertainment district at the end of the nineteenth century, and after the economic boom the second block grew to become the largest in Tōhoku. It stretches from the south, at the Bashō crossroads, to the north as far as Omote-kōji, beyond Jōzenji Avenue.
Miyagi
Sendai, Kotodai-Koen, Aoba-dōri
