Sendai Daikannon Statue
Sendai Daikannon, officially known as the Sendai Tendou Byakue Daikannon, is a large statue located in Sendai, Japan. It portrays a woman, the bodhisattva Byakue Kannon holding the cintamani gem in her hand.Photo: Hideyuki KAMON, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: large statue in Sendai, Japan
- Also known as: “Sendai Daikannon” and “Sendai Daikannon Temple”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Seiwa Gakuen College and Tohoku Fukushi University Baseball Stadium.
Seiwa Gakuen College
College
Photo: 広瀬川, Public domain.
Seiwa Gakuen College is a private junior college, located in Izumi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Seiwa Gakuen College is situated 1¼ km northwest of Sendai Daikannon Statue.
Tohoku Fukushi University Baseball Stadium
Pitch
Photo: 広瀬川, Public domain.
Tohoku Fukushi University Baseball Stadium is a pitch, which is situated 1¼ km southeast of Sendai Daikannon Statue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kashiwagi and Aoba.
Kashiwagi
Quarter
Photo: 七厩拓, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kashiwagi is a quarter, which is situated 4 km southeast of Sendai Daikannon Statue.
Aoba
Suburb
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aoba-ku is one of five wards of Sendai, the largest city in the Tōhoku region of Japan. Aoba-ku encompasses 302.278 km² and had a population of 296,551, with 147,622 households as of March 1, 2012. Aoba is situated 5 km southeast of Sendai Daikannon Statue.
Miyagino
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Miyagino-ku is the northeastern ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2017, the ward had a population of 196,086 and a population density of 3370 persons per km2 in 91322 households. Miyagino is situated 8 km southeast of Sendai Daikannon Statue.
Sendai Daikannon Statue
- Categories: Buddhist temple, colossal statue, and tourism
- Location: Izumi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.3005° or 38° 18′ 2″ northLongitude
140.82363° or 140° 49′ 25″ eastInception
1991Height
100 metres (328 feet)Open location code
8RC28R2F+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2632264485OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q1621882
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Sendai Daikannon Statue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنداي دايكانون”
- Armenian: “Կաննոն աստվածուհու արձան (Սենդայ)”
- Armenian: “Կաննոն աստվածուհու արձան”
- Basque: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Burmese: “ဆန်းဒိုင်းဗောဓိသတ္တရုပ်ပွားတော်ကြီး”
- Catalan: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Chinese: “仙台大观音像”
- Chinese: “仙臺大觀音像”
- Chinese: “大觀密寺”
- Dutch: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنداى دايكانون”
- French: “Sendai Daikannon”
- German: “Daikannon (Sendai)”
- German: “Daikannon”
- Hindi: “सेंडाई डाइकानन”
- Hindi: “सेंदाई डाइकानन”
- Indonesian: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Italian: “Sendai Kannon”
- Japanese: “せんだいだいかんのん”
- Japanese: “仙台大観音”
- Japanese: “仙台天道白衣大観音”
- Japanese: “大観密寺”
- Portuguese: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Russian: “Статуя богини Каннон (Сендай)”
- Russian: “Статуя богини Каннон”
- Spanish: “Sendai Daikannon”
- Turkish: “Sendai Daikannon”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Daikanmitsuji Temple and イオンフィットネススタジオ 仙台中山店.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Shimamura and Birthday.
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