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• Arahama Elementary School (震災遺構 仙台市立荒浜小学校) The water reached the second floor: 320 people stayed on the roof for twenty-seven hours.
• Bunka Yokochō (文化横丁) At Hassen, eight pan-fried dumplings cost 580 yen: it closes when the dough runs out.
• Fujisaki Department Store (藤崎) It began in 1819 as a fabric shop; today you can walk straight from floor -2 into the metro.
• Hapina Nakakecho Arcade (ハピナ名掛丁商店街) In 1896 the poet Shimazaki Tōson stayed here and wrote much of Wakanashū.
• Hirose-dori (広瀬通り)
• Ichibancho Shotengai (一番町商店街) The arcade is 19.5 m high and copied from the Galleria in Milan: 50,000 passers-by a day.
• Ichimoku Senbon Zakura The Shiroishi River embankment is lined with 1,200 cherry trees planted in 1923 and 1927, and since 1990 it has been among the hundred most…
• Iroha Yokochō (壱弐参横丁) A hundred shop signs in two narrow alleys, and in the middle a 1948 hand-pump well that still works.
• Ishinomori Mangattan Museum (石ノ森萬画館) The tsunami flooded the ground floor up to the ceiling: it reopened on 17 November 2012.
• Izumi Library, Sendai Sendai's Izumi Library (仙台市泉図書館) is a municipal public library in the Izumi-chūō neighbourhood, Izumi-ku, Sendai, about 3 minutes' walk…
• Izumi-Chuo Station (泉中央駅) Northern terminus of the Sendai metro.
• Japan Kokeshi Museum (日本こけし館) The first dolls date back to 1811, but the name ‘kokeshi’ was only fixed in 1940.
• Jozenji Avenue (定禅寺通り) Beneath the four rows of elms stands a bronze Ulysses by Giacomo Manzù.
• Kakyoin-dōri Post Office (仙台花京院通郵便局) A few minutes' walk north-east of Sendai Station.
• Kamuri-Ōhashi Bridge (かむり大橋) A bridge over the Nanakita River, in Izumi Ward, Sendai; Nanakita Park opens out around it.
• Katsuoka Cemetery (葛岡墓園) Municipal cemetery of Sendai.
• Koganeyama Shrine (Kinkasan) On the sacred island of Kinkasan about 530 sika deer live free; they are regarded as messengers of the deity of Koganeyama Shrine, which…
• Kokubunchō (国分町) Two thousand seven hundred venues, and at Tōyōken you can eat until three in the morning.
• Kotodai Park (勾当台公園) Sendai's central park.
• Michinoeki Oya-Kaigan Roadside Station (道の駅大谷海岸) The 677 m seawall was moved back to save the sand: since 2021 you can swim here.
• Mount Dainenji Television Towers (大年寺山テレビ塔) Three television masts on the summit of Mount Dainenji.
• Mukadeya (むかでや) Traditional shoe shop opened in 1934. It is on the second floor of the Foot Building, above Tsuruha Drug, five shopfronts south of Forus…
• Nanakita Park (七北田公園) Large urban park in Izumi Ward, a few minutes from Izumi-Chūō Station.
• Nikka Miyagikyo Distillery (ニッカウヰスキー宮城峡蒸溜所) In 1967 Taketsuru tasted the water of the Nikkawa River and chose this as the site, between two rivers.
• Okama, the crater lake (御釜) A crater of 325 metres, 27 deep: the water is too acidic for anything to live in it.
• Ōsaki Hachimangū (大崎八幡宮) On 14 January thousands of men walk to the fire with a sheet of paper in their mouths, so as not to talk
• Rinno-ji Temple (輪王寺) The fire of 1876 destroyed the temple: only the gate from 1691 survived.
• Sendai Castle Ruins (仙台城跡) There was never a keep: the rampart and the statue stay lit until 23:00.
• Sendai City Museum (仙台市博物館) The portrait of Hasekura, painted in Rome in 1615, is the oldest oil painting of a Japanese person.
• Sendai Mediatheque (仙台メディアテーク) No pillars: thirteen steel tubes run through the six floors and hold everything up.
• Sendai Mitsukoshi In November 1971, at the entrance to the renovated toilets on the fourth floor, the first International Symbol of Access (車いすマーク) ever seen…
• Sendai Morning Market (仙台朝市) Three slices of tuna belly for 650 yen, standing among the stalls; it is closed on Sundays.
• Sendai Port (仙台港)
• Shiogama Shrine (鹽竈神社) 202 steps up to the shrine of 1704, with 14 buildings that are Important Cultural Properties.
• Shiogama Wholesale Fish Market (塩釜水産物仲卸市場) You choose the fish at the stalls, the rice at stall 6, and you put the bowl together yourself.
• Shiraishi River embankment — Hitome Senbonzakura (白石川堤一目千本桜) Planted in 1923 and 1927 by a businessman from the town: today there are 1,200 along 8 km.
• Shiroishi Castle (白石城) Rebuilt in 1995 entirely in wood, not in concrete like almost all Japanese towers.
• Takinoyu Public Bath (滝の湯) Three hundred yen, water at pH 2.9 in cypress tubs: it is the bath of the town's shrine.
• Tashirojima, the cat island (田代島) 42 inhabitants (2026), and more cats than people: the shrine began with a cat killed by mistake.
• Yagiyama Bridge (八木山橋) Single-lane bridge from 1965 spanning the Tatsunokuchi gorge, in Sendai, between Aoba and Taihaku wards.
• Yamashō Memorial Museum (村田商人やましょう記念館) Koga Masao slept in the guest annexe of the Yamashō house: entry is free, guide included.
• Zuiganji (瑞巌寺) The cedar avenue is gone: salt from the 2011 tsunami killed three hundred of the trees.

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