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Miyagi

Sendai

Sendai is the largest city in the region of 's island, with around 1 million people. It is the capital of 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." hot springs area of the city has a separate article.
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  • Type: City with 1,090,000 residents
  • Description: city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sendaishi”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Sndtaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sendai Castle and Sendai Mediatheque.

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.

Library
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is a library in Sendai, , Japan. It was designed by Toyo Ito in 1995 and completed in 2001.

Museum
Photo: Kinori, Public domain.
The is the main of Sendai, , 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aoba and Miyagino.

Suburb
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aoba-ku is one of five wards of Sendai, the largest city in the of Japan. Aoba-ku encompasses 302.278 km² and had a population of 296,551, with 147,622 households as of March 1, 2012.

Suburb
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Miyagino-ku is the northeastern ward of the city Sendai, in , . 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.

Suburb
Photo: Kinori, Public domain.
is the southernmost ward of the city Sendai, in , . As of 1 March 2023, the ward had a population of 234,391 and a population density of 1028 persons per km2 in 113,068 households.

Sendai

Latitude
38.2678° or 38° 16′ 4″ north
Longitude
140.8692° or 140° 52′ 9″ east
Population
1,090,000
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
IATA airport code
SDJ
Open location code
8RC27V99+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752184864
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2111149
Wiki­data ID
Q46747
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sendai” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sendai”
  • Albanian: “Sendai”
  • Arabic: “سندائي”
  • Arabic: “سنداي، مياغي”
  • Arabic: “سنداي”
  • Arabic: “سيندائي”
  • Arabic: “سينداي، مياغي”
  • Arabic: “سينداي”
  • Aragonese: “Sendai”
  • Armenian: “Սենդայ”
  • Asturian: “Sendai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Senday”
  • Balinese: “Sendai”
  • Balinese: “Séndai”
  • Basque: “Sendai”
  • Belarusian: “Сендай”
  • Belarusian: “Сэндай”
  • Bengali: “সেনদাই”
  • Bengali: “仙台”
  • Breton: “Sendai”
  • Bulgarian: “Сендай”
  • Catalan: “Sendai”
  • Cebuano: “Sendai-shi”
  • Central Bikol: “Sendai, Hapon”
  • Central Bikol: “Sendai”
  • Chechen: “Сендай”
  • Chinese: “Sendai-chhī”
  • Chinese: “仙台”
  • Chinese: “仙台市”
  • Chinese: “仙臺市”
  • Croatian: “Sendai”
  • Czech: “Sendai”
  • Danish: “Sendai”
  • Dutch: “Sendai”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سنداى”
  • Esperanto: “Sendai”
  • Esperanto: “Sendajo”
  • Estonian: “Sendai”
  • Faroese: “Sendai”
  • Finnish: “Sendai”
  • French: “Sendai”
  • French: “Sendaï”
  • French: “Séndaï”
  • Galician: “Sendai”
  • Georgian: “სენდაი”
  • German: “Sendai”
  • Greek: “Σεντάι”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ડાઈ”
  • Hebrew: “סנדאי”
  • Hebrew: “סנדיי”
  • Hindi: “सेंडाइ”
  • Hindi: “सेंदाई”
  • Hungarian: “Sendai”
  • Hungarian: “Szendai”
  • Ido: “Sendai-shi”
  • Ido: “Sendai”
  • Indonesian: “Sendai, Miyagi”
  • Indonesian: “Sendai”
  • Irish: “Sendai”
  • Italian: “Sendai”
  • Japanese: “Sendai-shi”
  • Japanese: “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”
  • Kabyle: “Sendai”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಂದೈ”
  • Kikuyu: “Sendai”
  • Korean: “센다이”
  • Korean: “센다이시”
  • Latin: “Sendai”
  • Latin: “Sendaium”
  • Latvian: “Sendai”
  • Latvian: “Sendaji”
  • Literary Chinese: “仙臺市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sendai”
  • Lithuanian: “Sendajus”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sendai”
  • Malay: “Sendai”
  • Maltese: “Sendai”
  • Marathi: “सेंडाई”
  • Marathi: “सेंदाई”
  • Mazanderani: “سندای، میاگی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sendai-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sendai”
  • Moksha: “Сэндай”
  • Mongolian: “Сэндай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sendai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sendai”
  • Norwegian: “Sendai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sendai”
  • Ossetian: “Сендай”
  • Ossetian: “Сэндай”
  • Persian: “سندای، میاگی”
  • Persian: “سندای”
  • Piemontese: “Sendai”
  • Polish: “Sendai”
  • Pontic: “Σεντάι”
  • Portuguese: “Sendai”
  • Portuguese: “Xendai”
  • Quechua: “Sendai”
  • Romanian: “Sendai”
  • Russian: “Сендай”
  • Russian: “Сэндай”
  • Sardinian: “Sendai”
  • Scots: “Sendai”
  • Serbian: “Сендаи”
  • Serbian: “Сендај”
  • Serbian: “仙台市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sendai”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sendaj”
  • Sicilian: “Sendai”
  • Sinhala: “සෙන්දායි”
  • Slovak: “Sendai”
  • Slovenian: “Sendai, Mijagi”
  • Slovenian: “Sendai”
  • Slovenian: “Sendaj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سندای”
  • Spanish: “Sendai Miyagi”
  • Spanish: “Sendai”
  • Sundanese: “Sendai”
  • Swahili: “Sendai, Miyagi”
  • Swahili: “Sendai”
  • Swedish: “Sendai”
  • Tagalog: “Sendai”
  • Tajik: “Сендаи”
  • Tamil: “செண்டாய்”
  • Tatar: “Сендай”
  • Telugu: “సెన్దై”
  • Thai: “เซนได”
  • Thai: “เซ็นได”
  • Tumbuka: “Sendai”
  • Turkish: “Sendai”
  • Twi: “Sendai”
  • Ukrainian: “Сендай”
  • Urdu: “سیندائی”
  • Uzbek: “Senday”
  • Venetian: “Sendai”
  • Veps: “Sendai”
  • Vietnamese: “Sendai”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiên Đài thị”
  • Volapük: “Sendai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sendai”
  • Welsh: “Sendai”
  • Wolof: “Sendai”
  • Wu Chinese: “仙台”
  • Wu Chinese: “仙台市”
  • Yakut: “Сендай”
  • Yue Chinese: “仙台”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sendai”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.