Small rocky islands topped with dense pines in a calm bay, seen through green foliage under an overcast sky

A bronze equestrian statue of a samurai in a crescent-crested helmet on a grey stone base, tree branches at the edges of the frame

Two Shinkansen trains coupled nose to nose at a station platform, one red and one green and white

Tall trees at night wrapped in thousands of tiny warm-white lights, a lit round sign with a red ice character at lower right

Miyagi

Miyagi: What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

The Miyagi pages start with Sendai. Its central sights, including Zuihoden, the Sendai Castle ruins, Osaki Hachimangu and Sendai Mediatheque, are stops on the Loople Sendai loop bus from Sendai Station. Matsushima is about 40 minutes by the JR Senseki Line, and Yamadera and the Akiu hot spring area are further day trips.

Tanabata is in August and the Pageant of Starlight on Jozenji-dori runs 4–27 December 2026.

Places in Miyagi

Sendai — Stay at the West Exit of JR Sendai Station, on the Ichibancho and Kokubuncho side, or in the hot spring towns of Akiu and Sakunami.