![]() ![]() Getting around Sendai is easy for visitors on the Sendai subway, city buses or Sendai Loople Bus. Sendai city's most famous sights are Zuihoden, the mausoleum of Masamune Date and Sendai Castle, aka Aoba-jo, founded by Masamune in 1602, thereby creating the city of Sendai, which thereafter became the Date clan power-base. Sakunami Onsen on the Hirose River is known for its spectacular autumn leaves and is also an escape from the summer heat. In the central and southern parts of Miyagi, Akui Onsen, Sakunami, Jogi, Togatta, Aone, Gaga and Kamasaki are all pleasant onsen resorts. The Japan Kokeshi Museum is located here. Naruko Gorge is a 2km-long gorge, close to Naruko Onsen, famous for its fall colors and kokeshi dolls. Miyagi's most well-known hot springs ( onsen) are located at Naruko near Osaki in the north of the prefecture, where the waters are known for their healing properties. Miyagi offers skiing in winter at a number of fairly small scale ski resorts including Onikoube, St Mary, Miyagi Zao Shichikashuku and Miyagi Zao Shiroishi. Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium Miyagi Attractions Ornate Momoyama-style decorations at the Zuihoden Mausoleum in Sendai In general Miyagi Prefecture has cold, dry winters and warm and wet summers with the average August high temperature at 28˚C and January low temperature of -2˚C. Miyagi has cooler weather than many places to the south during the hot and humid Japanese summers. ![]() ![]() Other important towns and cities in Miyagi Prefecture are Higashimatsushima, Ishinomaki, Iwanuma, Kakuda, Kesennuma, Kurihara, Natori, Osaki, Shiogama, Shiroishi, Tagajo, Tome and Tomiya. Sendai, the prefectural capital and the largest city in the prefecture has a population of around 1,086,000 inhabitants. Rice farming and fishing are also important. Miyagi is Japan's sixteenth largest prefecture and is both industrial and agricultural with manufacturing, especially electronics, centered around the prefectural capital and largest city of Sendai. Miyagi Prefecture also borders Yamagata Prefecture to the west and Fukushima Prefecture to the south. Miyagi Prefecture is located in the southern part of the Tohoku region on the Pacific Coast of northern Honshu, south of Iwate Prefecture. ![]()
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