The city museum offers a comprehensive account of samurai Masamune's epic life, as well as displaying more than 13,000 artefacts on loan from the Date family, with plenty of explanations in English.
香港六合彩即时开奖's must-see attractions
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The 'Temple of Standing Stones', more commonly known as Yamadera, rests atop a rock-hewn staircase weathered over the centuries by unrelenting elements鈥
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The mausoleum of Date Masamune sits majestically atop the summit of a tree-covered hill by the Hirose-gawa. Built in 1637 but destroyed by Allied bombing鈥
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T艒hoku鈥檚 finest Zen temple, Zuigan-ji was established in AD 828. The present buildings were constructed in 1606 by Date Masamune to serve as a family鈥
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This popular manga museum's other-worldly spaceship structure survived the tsunami largely intact, while the collection has since been restored and鈥
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You can't miss the 252m-long red wooden bridge connecting Fuku-ura-jima to the mainland. The shady trails here, which wind around the island through鈥
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Date Masamune constructed this small wooden temple in 1604. Although it stands on an island in the bay, connected to the mainland by two short bridges, it鈥
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In the 19th century there were dozens of fiery kilns lining the Hazukashi-gawa, turning out beautiful bluish-grey mottled pottery pieces known as nashi鈥
Miyagi Sant Juan Bautista Museum
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A full-scale replica of the Spanish-style Japanese-made ship Sant Juan Bautista, commissioned by Date Masamune in 1613 as part of a diplomatic mission to鈥
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Built on Aoba-yama in 1602 by Date Masamune and destroyed during Allied bombing, Sendai-j艒 still looms large over the city. Giant moss-covered walls, as鈥
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The mausoleum of Date Masamune sits majestically atop the summit of a tree-covered hill by the Hirose-gawa. Built in 1637 but destroyed by Allied bombing鈥
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Housed in an award-winning structure designed by Japanese architect It艒 Toy艒, this cultural hub includes a library, art galleries and event spaces. Check鈥
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This pavilion was presented to the Date family by the daimy艒 (domain lord) Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the late 16th century. It served as a genteel venue for鈥
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T艒hoku鈥檚 finest Zen temple, Zuigan-ji was established in AD 828. The present buildings were constructed in 1606 by Date Masamune to serve as a family鈥
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Date Masamune constructed this small wooden temple in 1604. Although it stands on an island in the bay, connected to the mainland by two short bridges, it鈥
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You can't miss the 252m-long red wooden bridge connecting Fuku-ura-jima to the mainland. The shady trails here, which wind around the island through鈥
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On the hill behind the train station, this biographical museum exhibits scrolls and calligraphy related to the poet Bash艒's famous northern journey.