Japan
Hokkaido & Northern Honshu
+ Sapporo
Sights
* Botanical Garden and Batchelor Museum
* Odori Park
* Sapporo Beer Garden and Museum
* Tokeidai Clock Tower
* Akan National Park
* Hakodate
* Hiraizumi
* Hirosaki
* Kakunodate
* Matsushima
* Otaru
* Sado-shima
* Sendai
* Shikotsu-toya National Park
* Towada-Hachimantai National Park
Central Honshu
+ Tokyo
Western Honshu & Shikoku
+ Kyoto
Kyushu & the Southern Islands
+ Nagasaki
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Worth Seeing )
The largest city of Tohoku is Sendai. Although you may find a short stay here useful for transport connections, or for exploring the traditional rural life of neighbouring Yamagata prefecture, it is not a major tourist centre. Aoba-jo Castle was built in 1602 by Date Masamune, one of the most powerful feudal lords in late 16th- and early 17th-century Japan, who made Sendai his base; the castle was destroyed by bombing in World War II. A computerised film shows how the castle would have once looked.
Address: 290km north of Tokyo
Bus: Direct buses from Tokyo (8 hours)
Train: Thoku Shinkansen from Tokyo (2 hours)
Air: Regular flights to Okinawa, Osaka, Sapporo
Info: Sendai Station Phone: (022) 222 3269
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