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Sendai (仙台市, Sendai-shi, ⓘ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. As of 1 August 2023, the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, [1] making it the twelfth most populated city in Japan. The modern city was founded in 1600 by the daimyō Date Masamune.
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (都道府県, todōfuken, [todoːɸɯ̥ꜜkeɴ] ⓘ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.
They are widely used in, for example, maps, geography textbooks, and weather reports, and many businesses and institutions use their home regions in their names as well, for example Kyushu National Museum, Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, and Tōhoku University.
Panoramic view of Sendai plain, spreading to Sendai metropolitan area in Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県, Miyagi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. [2]
Northern Fujiwara. In mythological times, the area was known as Azuma (吾妻, あづま) and corresponded to the area of Honshu occupied by the native Emishi and Ainu.The area was historically the Dewa and the Michinoku regions, [3] a term first recorded in Hitachi-no-kuni Fudoki (常陸国風土記) (654).
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The eastern entrance to the Sendai Nishi Road The Ayashi Bypass section of the highway in Sendai looking west towards the Ōu Mountains. National Route 48 is one of the primary east-west highways in the prefectures of Miyagi and Yamagata and is the main toll-free route between the city of Sendai on the Pacific coast and the city of Yamagata in Yamagata Prefecture's interior plains.
Sendai Daikannon (仙台大観音), officially known as the Sendai Tendou Byakue Daikannon (仙台天道白衣大観音), is a large statue located in Sendai, Japan. It portrays a woman, the bodhisattva Byakue Kannon (白衣観音, "white-robed Kannon") holding the cintamani gem ( 如意宝珠 , Nyoihōju ) in her hand.