Sendai
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.- City with about 1,060,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 60 metres (190 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SDJ
- …is also known as “Sendaishi”
- Description: city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sendai Castle and Sendai City Museum.
Sendai Castle
Aoba Castle is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.
Aoba-dōri Station
Aoba-dōri Station is a JR East railway station located in Aoba-ku in Sendai, Miyagi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aoba and Miyagino.
Aoba
Aoba-ku is one of five wards of Sendai, the largest city in the Tōhoku region of Japan.
Miyagino
Miyagino-ku is the northeastern ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Taihaku-ku
Taihaku-ku is the southernmost ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Sendai
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Latitude
38.2678° or 38° 16′ 4″ north
Longitude
140.8692° or 140° 52′ 9″ east
Open location code
8RC27V99+4M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sendai” goes by many names.
SendaiAfrikaans
SendaiAlbanian
سندائيArabic
سندايArabic
سنداي، مياغيArabic
سيندائيArabic
سيندايArabic
سينداي، مياغيArabic
SendaiAragonese
ՍենդայArmenian
SendaiAsturian
SendayAzerbaijani
SéndaiBalinese
SendaiBasque
СендайBelarusian
СэндайBelarusian
সেনদাইBengali
仙台Bengali
SendaiBreton
СендайBulgarian
SendaiCatalan
Sendai-shiCebuano
SendaiCentral Bikol
Sendai, HaponCentral Bikol
СендайChechen
仙台Chinese
仙台市Chinese
仙臺市Chinese
SendaiCroatian
SendaiCzech
SendaiDanish
SendaiDutch
سنداىEgyptian Arabic
SendaiEsperanto
SendajoEsperanto
SendaiEstonian
SendaiFaroese
SendaiFinnish
SendaiGalician
სენდაიGeorgian
ΣεντάιGreek
સેન્ડાઈGujarati
סנדאיHebrew
סנדייHebrew
सेंडाइHindi
सेंदाईHindi
SendaiHungarian
SzendaiHungarian
SendaiIdo
Sendai-shiIdo
SendaiIndonesian
Sendai, MiyagiIndonesian
SendaiIrish
SendaiItalian
Sendai-shiJapanese
せんだいJapanese
センダイJapanese
せんだいしJapanese
センダイシJapanese
仙台Japanese
仙台市Japanese
仙臺Japanese
仙都Japanese
僊臺Japanese
先代Japanese
千代Japanese
学都仙台Japanese
杜の都Japanese
楽都仙台Japanese
SendaiKabyle
ಸೆಂದೈKannada
SendaiKikuyu
센다이Korean
센다이시Korean
SendaiLatin
SendaiumLatin
SendaiLatvian
SendajiLatvian
仙臺市Literary Chinese
SendaiLithuanian
SendajusLithuanian
SendaiMacedo-Romanian
SendaiMalay
SendaiMaltese
सेंडाईMarathi
सेंदाईMarathi
سندای، میاگیMazanderani
SendaiMin Nan Chinese
Sendai-chhīMin Nan Chinese
СэндайMoksha
СэндайMongolian
SendaiNorwegian
SendaiNorwegian Bokmål
SendaiNorwegian Nynorsk
SendaiOccitan (post 1500)
СендайOssetian
СэндайOssetian
سندایPersian
سندای، میاگیPersian
SendaiPiemontese
SendaiPolish
ΣεντάιPontic
SendaiQuechua
SendaiRomanian
СендайRussian
СэндайRussian
SendaiSardinian
SendaiScots
СендаиSerbian
СендајSerbian
仙台市Serbian
SendaiSerbo-Croatian
SendajSerbo-Croatian
SendaiSicilian
SendaiSilesian
සෙන්දායිSinhala
SendaiSlovak
SendaiSlovenian
Sendai, MijagiSlovenian
SendajSlovenian
سندایSouth Azerbaijani
SendaiSundanese
SendaiSwahili
Sendai, MiyagiSwahili
SendaiSwedish
SendaiTagalog
СендаиTajik
செண்டாய்Tamil
СендайTatar
సెన్దైTelugu
เซ็นไดThai
SendaiTumbuka
SendaiTurkish
SendaiTwi
СендайUkrainian
سیندائیUrdu
SendayUzbek
SendaiVenetian
SendaiVeps
SendaiVietnamese
Tiên Đài thịVietnamese
SendaiVolapük
SendaiWaray (Philippines)
SendaiWelsh
SendaiWolof
仙台Wu Chinese
仙台市Wu Chinese
СендайYakut
仙台Yue Chinese
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