Kameoka Hachimangū
Kameoka Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. It is the tutelary shrine of the Date clan.- Type: Shinto shrine
- Description: Shinto shrine in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
- Address: 亀岡, 青葉区, 仙台市, 宮城県
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sendai Castle and Sendai City Museum.
Sendai Castle
Castle
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aoba Castle is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Throughout the Edo period, Aoba Castle was home to the Date clan, daimyō of Sendai Domain. Sendai Castle is situated 1½ km southeast of Kameoka Hachimangū.
Sendai City Museum
Museum
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sendai City Museum is the main museum of Sendai, Japan, and is located in the former Third Bailey of Sendai Castle. The museum displays various artifacts related to the Date clan and the history of Sendai. Sendai City Museum is situated 1¼ km southeast of Kameoka Hachimangū.
The Miyagi Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
The Miyagi Museum of Art opened in Sendai, Japan, in 1981. The collection has as its primary focus works associated with Miyagi Prefecture and the Tōhoku region more generally, from the Meiji period to the present day, and also includes paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. The Miyagi Museum of Art is situated 1 km east of Kameoka Hachimangū.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kashiwagi and Sendai.
Sendai
Photo: Inkey, Public domain.
Sendai 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. As everyone here will tell you, "Sendai is not too big and not too small, it's very convenient and it's close to both the sea and the mountains." Sakunami hot springs area of the city has a separate article.
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 2½ km east of Kameoka Hachimangū.
Kameoka Hachimangū
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.26156° or 38° 15′ 42″ northLongitude
140.84314° or 140° 50′ 35″ eastOpen location code
8RC27R6V+J7OpenStreetMap ID
node 4553840390OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q48796229
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Kameoka Hachimangū” goes by many names.
- French: “sanctuaire de Kameoka Hachimangū”
- French: “Sanctuaire de Kameoka Hachimangū”
- Indonesian: “Kuil Kameoka Hachimangū”
- Japanese: “亀岡八幡宮”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 高良玉垂神社 and 御神庫.
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