Easily accessible hotels from the meeting place:
Sendai Washington Hotel (\7,250)
Excel Hotel Tokyu Sendai (\8,600)
Hotel Metropolitan Sendai (\11,500)
Sendai offers easy international access.
The trip from Narita Airport to Sendai takes around 2.5 hours by Narita Express (a shuttle between the airport and Tokyo) and shinkansen. From Kansai International Airport, it takes only a 1 hour and 20 minutes by air.
Sendai International Airport also has 6 regular international locations include Taiwan and Beijing,
and a 3,000-meter runway is being built so that it can accommodate more flights from abroad.
By air
Sendai Airport Flight Information
By train (JR)
JR East
From JR Sendai Station
Taxi: about 10 minutes, about \1,300
Bus: from No. 9 of Sendai bus terminal to “Ohgizaka”, (about 15 minutes, \180).
Map of Kawauchi Campus, Tohoku University
From Sendai Airport
Taxi: about 60 minutes
Airport Limousine Bus to JR Sendai Station (About 40 minuets, \910) and taxi or bus from Sendai Station to Tohoku University.
Load Date Masamune, a cultured man of his time, founded the City of Sendai. His influence remains throughout the entire city. Even today, visitors can walk the same paths and admire the unchanged scenery that Load Date created.
Now more than one million people live in Sendai, but there are many nature in the city. Jozenji-dori Avenue is located in central city, so this street make us relax.
Date Masamune constructed this castle in 1603, and it was a residence for several generations of the Date family. There was no tower. The castle was destroyed after the Meiji Restoration, but the big steel gates that were moved from Hizen Nagoya castle and Sumi Yagura were kept. However, they burned down in an air raid in 1945. This area is a park today, and Gokoku Shrine, a monument to Bansui Doi's Kojo-no-Tsuki, a Toson Shimazaki poem monument, the Akitada monument, and a statue of Date Masamune riding a horse stand where the main area used to be.
Date Masamune (1567-1636) His warrior name was Dokuganryu (one-eyed dragon) and he controlled the Ou region. In 1591, he was ordered by Hideyoshi Toyotomi to move from Dewa Yonezawa to Mutsu. He established a base at Tamatsukuri-gun Iwadeyama and began constructing a new castle in Sendai in 1600.
Matsushima is regarded as one of the nation's three most famous scenic areas, along with Miyajima in Hiroshima and Ama-no Hashidate in Kyoto.
One anecdote about the illustrious haiku poet Matsuo Basho relates that, when he visited Matsushima during his travels, he was unable to compose a haiku about the place because he was so awed by its beauty that he could not find words to adquately describe it.
At present, sightseeing cruisers regularly take visitors around the 260 islands that dot the bay.
Tohoku University
Sendai Sightseeing
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