Sendai: What to Do and Where to Stay

The central sights of Sendai, 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.

The stay page splits the city by base: the West Exit of JR Sendai Station, the Ichibancho and Kokubuncho side, and the hot spring towns of Akiu and Sakunami, where several hotels run shuttles from the station.