Sendai, Miyagi · Where to stay
Where to Stay in Sendai: Station, Ichibancho, Akiu or Sakunami
12 places to stay · checked October 20, 2026
12 hotels in Sendai, grouped by base
Hours, prices and access checked against each place's own page on October 20, 2026. They change; check before you go.
1Hotel Metropolitan Sendaiホテルメトロポリタン仙台
Station hotel · Sendai Station
At 1-1-1 Chuo, about a one-minute walk from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station: go down to the 2nd floor after the ticket gate, head for the West Exit, and the hotel is on your left outside. Not to be confused with Hotel Metropolitan Sendai East on the other side of the station. The hotel’s page gives Sendai Airport as 17 minutes by Access Line rail or about 40 minutes by taxi.
- Access
- About 1 minute on foot from the JR Sendai Station West Exit
- Hours
- Check-in 15:00 / Check-out 11:00
2Sendai Washington Hotel仙台ワシントンホテル
Business hotel · Sendai Station
At 4-10-8 Chuo, about a 3-minute walk from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station.
- Access
- About 3 minutes on foot from the JR Sendai Station West Exit
- Hours
- Check-in 14:00 / Check-out 11:00
3Hotel JAL City SendaiホテルJALシティ仙台
City hotel · Sendai Station (Hirose-dori)
At 1-2-12 Kakyoin, about 3 minutes on foot from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station along Hirose-dori. The access page does not list check-in or check-out times.
- Access
- About 3 minutes on foot from the JR Sendai Station West Exit, along Hirose-dori
4Dormy Inn Sendai ANNEX天然温泉 青葉の湯 ドーミーイン仙台ANNEX
Business hotel with hot spring bath · Sendai Station (Hirose-dori)
At 2-11-26 Chuo. The Aoba no Yu bath uses natural hot spring water pumped from about 1,200 m underground, indoors and outdoors, with a dry sauna and a cold plunge pool. The hotel’s page does not list check-in or check-out times.
- Access
- 6 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station; 2 minutes from Hirose-dori Station (Namboku Line)
5Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sendai Ichibancho PREMIERダイワロイネットホテル仙台一番町PREMIER
City hotel · Ichibancho
At 4-2-2 Ichiban-cho. The hotel’s page gives three ways in: about 15 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station, a one-stop ride on the Namboku Line to Hirose-dori Station and then about a minute from Exit 5 (west), or Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station on the Tozai Line and then about 6 minutes from Exit 2 (north).
- Access
- About 15 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station; 1 minute from Hirose-dori Station Exit 5 (west); 6 minutes from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station Exit 2 (north)
- Hours
- Check-in 14:00 / Check-out 11:00
6Henn na Hotel Premier Sendai Kokubunchoヘンナホテル プレミア仙台国分町
City hotel · Ichibancho / Kokubuncho
At 2-12, 4-chome, Ichibancho. About a 1-minute walk from Hirose-dori Station Exit West 5 and about 20 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station. The access page gives no distance to Kokubuncho itself; it lists a car park in Kokubuncho 7 minutes on foot from the main entrance. Check-in and check-out times are not on that page.
- Access
- 1 minute on foot from Hirose-dori Station Exit West 5; about 20 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station
7Mitsui Garden Hotel Sendai三井ガーデンホテル仙台
City hotel · Honcho (Hirose-dori)
At 2-4-6 Honcho, about 12 minutes on foot from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station and about 1 minute from the West 1 exit of Hirose-dori Station.
- Access
- About 12 minutes on foot from the JR Sendai Station West Exit; about 1 minute from Hirose-dori Station exit West 1
- Hours
- Check-in 15:00 / Check-out 11:00
8Akiu Onsen Sakan (1000 Years of Tradition)伝承千年の宿 佐勘
Hot spring ryokan · Akiu Onsen
A long-established inn at 28 Aza-Yakushi, Akiu-machi Yumoto, associated with Date Masamune, who used it as a bathing residence. The public bath has three baths on floor B3, a mist sauna and a guests-only open-air bath, Kawaranoyu, that is not circulated. A courtesy bus runs between Sendai Station and the hotel in both directions; reserve through the hotel’s homepage.
- Access
- Courtesy bus from Sendai Station by reservation; public bus from Sendai Station about 40 to 50 minutes; about 30 minutes by car
- Hours
- Check-in 15:00 / Check-out 11:00
9Sendai Akiu Onsen Hotel Zuiho仙台秋保温泉 ホテル瑞鳳
Hot spring hotel · Akiu Onsen
At 26-1 Aza-Nozoki, Akiu-machi Yumoto, with rooms overlooking Raiyokyo gorge. Two public baths, six open-air baths and two saunas; no private baths. A free shuttle runs from Sendai Station by reservation.
- Access
- Free shuttle from Sendai Station by reservation; public bus from Sendai Station about 40 to 50 minutes; about 30 minutes by car
- Hours
- Check-in 15:00 / Check-out 10:00
10Kagaribi no Yu Ryokusuitei篝火の湯 緑水亭
Hot spring ryokan · Akiu Onsen
At Uehara 27, Akiu-machi Yumoto. The indoor public bath uses iron-containing spring water; the open-air bath has braziers lit from nightfall, and there is a sauna but no private bath. A free shuttle leaves Sendai Station West Entrance at 15:00 and leaves the ryokan at 10:00, by reservation.
- Access
- Free shuttle from the Sendai Station West Entrance (leaves 15:00, by reservation); public bus about 40 to 50 minutes; about 30 minutes by car
- Hours
- Check-in 15:00 / Check-out 10:00
11Sakunami Onsen Yuzukushi Salon Ichinobo作並温泉 ゆづくしSalon一の坊
Hot spring resort · Sakunami Onsen
At Sakunami Nagahara 3. Four outdoor baths at different temperatures, including a 130 cm deep standing bath, a large indoor bath and a mugwort herbal mist sauna; the hot spring is self-sourced. The hotel runs a free shuttle from JR Sakunami Station: reservation required, pickups 13:40 to 18:00, booked by 12:00 on the day. The shuttle back to the station needs no reservation and runs 8:40 to 11:10. The hotel’s pages do not list check-in or check-out times.
- Access
- Free shuttle from JR Sakunami Station (reservation required); JR Senzan Line from Sendai Station to Sakunami Station about 40 minutes; about 40 minutes by car from Sendai
Good to know
Sleep by the station if the trip runs on trains. Five hotels on this page are 1 to 12 minutes on foot from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station, and Hirose-dori Station on the Namboku Line is one stop away. The hot spring towns, Akiu and Sakunami, are a bus or rail ride out of the city, and several of their hotels run shuttles from the station.
The Ichibancho and Kokubuncho side sits between the station and the downtown streets. Sendai Tourism calls Kokubuncho Tohoku’s largest entertainment district. Three hotels here are within a minute of Hirose-dori Station, one subway stop from Sendai Station.
Rates change daily and are not compared here. Check-in and check-out times are given only where the hotel’s own page states them; where a page lists none, the card says so.
Sendai Station, Ichibancho / Kokubuncho, Akiu Onsen or Sakunami Onsen
Times come from the official pages cited on the hotel cards and from Sendai Tourism. Room rates change daily, so this table does not compare price.
| Base | Fits a trip that | From Sendai Station | Setting | Check-in / out stated on this page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sendai Station | runs on JR trains, the Shinkansen or the airport rail line | 1 to 6 minutes on foot from the West Exit (Metropolitan 1, JAL City 3, Washington 3, Dormy Inn ANNEX 6) | Sendai Tourism calls the station the gateway to Tohoku, with shopping arcades west of it | Metropolitan 15:00 / 11:00 · Washington 14:00 / 11:00 · JAL City and Dormy Inn ANNEX not stated |
| Ichibancho / Kokubuncho | wants the downtown streets and evenings out | Namboku Line to Hirose-dori Station (about 1 minute by train), then about 1 minute on foot; or 12 to 20 minutes on foot from the station | Sendai Tourism calls Kokubuncho Tohoku’s largest entertainment district | Daiwa Roynet 14:00 / 11:00 · Mitsui Garden 15:00 / 11:00 · Henn na not stated |
| Akiu Onsen | wants a hot spring night in the hills | Hotel shuttle by reservation (Sakan, Zuiho, Ryokusuitei); public bus about 40 to 50 minutes; car about 30 minutes | A hot spring town in Taihaku Ward; free Akiu Sato Center | Sakan 15:00 / 11:00 · Zuiho 15:00 / 10:00 · Ryokusuitei 15:00 / 10:00 |
| Sakunami Onsen | wants a hot spring on the JR Senzan Line | JR Senzan Line about 40 minutes to Sakunami Station; city bus about 50 minutes; Ichinobo shuttle from the station by reservation | Mountain onsen; Nikka Whisky Miyagikyo Distillery has a free shuttle from the station on Fridays, weekends and holidays | Not stated on the pages checked |
By kind of trip
Shinkansen, airport or an early train
These four are 1 to 6 minutes on foot from the West Exit of JR Sendai Station. Hotel Metropolitan Sendai’s page gives Sendai Airport as 17 minutes by Access Line rail.
Hotel Metropolitan Sendai · Sendai Washington Hotel · Hotel JAL City Sendai · Dormy Inn Sendai ANNEX
Evenings out downtown
All three are within about a minute of Hirose-dori Station on the Namboku Line, one stop from Sendai Station. Daiwa Roynet is also 6 minutes from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station on the Tozai Line.
Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sendai Ichibancho PREMIER · Henn na Hotel Premier Sendai Kokubuncho · Mitsui Garden Hotel Sendai
A hot spring night
Akiu and Sakunami have onsen hotels with baths on site. Dormy Inn Sendai ANNEX has a natural hot spring bath in the city, 6 minutes on foot from the station.
Akiu Onsen Sakan (1000 Years of Tradition) · Kagaribi no Yu Ryokusuitei · Sakunami Onsen Yuzukushi Salon Ichinobo · Dormy Inn Sendai ANNEX
Without a car
These run a shuttle from Sendai Station or JR Sakunami Station. All need a reservation; Ichinobo’s pickups run 13:40 to 18:00 and close for booking at 12:00 on the day.
Akiu Onsen Sakan (1000 Years of Tradition) · Sendai Akiu Onsen Hotel Zuiho · Kagaribi no Yu Ryokusuitei · Sakunami Onsen Yuzukushi Salon Ichinobo
Questions
Which part of Sendai is closest to the Shinkansen?
The hotels around the West Exit of JR Sendai Station. Hotel Metropolitan Sendai is about a 1-minute walk, Hotel JAL City Sendai and Sendai Washington Hotel about 3 minutes, and Dormy Inn Sendai ANNEX about 6 minutes, according to each hotel’s page.
Can I reach an Akiu or Sakunami hotel without driving?
Yes. Hotel Sakan, Hotel Zuiho and Ryokusuitei in Akiu each list a courtesy bus from Sendai Station, by reservation. Public buses to Akiu take about 40 to 50 minutes. For Sakunami, the JR Senzan Line takes about 40 minutes to Sakunami Station, and Ichinobo runs a free station shuttle that must be reserved by 12:00 on the day.
Where is Kokubuncho, and which hotels are near it?
Sendai Tourism describes Kokubuncho as Tohoku’s largest entertainment district. Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sendai Ichibancho PREMIER, Henn na Hotel Premier Sendai Kokubuncho and Mitsui Garden Hotel Sendai are each about a minute from Hirose-dori Station. The hotels’ pages checked here do not give walking times to Kokubuncho itself.
Do these pages show room prices?
No. Rates change daily with the date and the plan, so each card gives only what the hotel’s own page states: address, access, shuttle and baths, and check-in and check-out times where listed.