Sendai [city] - Sendai

Japanese: 仙台[市] - せんだい

A city in central Miyagi Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1889 and is the prefectural capital. In 1987, Miyagi Town was incorporated, and in 1988, Izumi City and Akiu Town were incorporated. In 1989, it became a city designated by government ordinance, with five districts established: Aoba, Miyagino, Wakabayashi, Taihaku, and Izumi. It faces Sendai Bay to the east, occupies the central Sennan Plain, and the city is located on the terraces of the Hirose River. The Tohoku Shinkansen, Tohoku Main Line, Senzan Line, and Senseki Line branch off from it, and the Tohoku Expressway also runs through it. In the early modern period, it flourished as a castle town of the Date clan, which had a fief of 620,000 koku. In 1872, it became the prefectural capital of Miyagi Prefecture, and with a concentration of local government offices and many cultural institutions, such as Tohoku University, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of the Tohoku region. Although a large area was destroyed in the air raids of World War II, the city was quickly rebuilt after the war, and a grid-like layout based on the layout of the castle town was formed. There is a lot of greenery, and it is called "the city of forests". In 1987, the municipal subway was opened. Although it has a strong tendency to be a consumer city, Nagamachi, Odawara, Hakusan, etc. are industrial districts, and the new Sendai Port was built as part of the New Industrial City Plan designated in 1964. The value of manufactured goods shipped was 736.7 billion yen (2003), making it the largest industrial city in the Tohoku region. The plains are filled with rice paddies, and vegetable cultivation is also thriving. There are the remains of Aoba Castle, the remains of Mutsu Kokubunji Temple (historic sites), Yagiyama, and Tsutsujigaoka Parks, and the Tanabata Festival is famous as one of the three major festivals in the Tohoku region. The city suffered damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake. 786.30 ^{km 2} . 1,045,986 people (2010).
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宮城県中部の市。1889年市制。県庁所在地。1987年宮城町，1988年泉市，秋保(あきう)町を編入。1989年政令指定都市となり，青葉，宮城野，若林，太白，泉の５区を設置。東は仙台湾に臨み，仙南平野中部を占め，広瀬川の段丘上に市街がある。東北新幹線，東北本線，仙山線，仙石線が分岐，東北自動車道も通じる。近世には伊達氏62万石の城下町として栄えた。1872年宮城県の県庁所在地となり，中央官庁の出先機関が集中，東北大学など文化機関も多く，東北地方の政治，経済，文化の中心をなしている。第２次大戦の空襲で広範囲を消失したが，戦後の復興は早く，城下町の町割を基にした碁盤目状の区画が形成され，緑も多く〈杜(もり)の都〉と呼ばれている。1987年には市営地下鉄が開通した。消費都市の傾向が強いが，長町，小田原，白山(はくさん)などが工業地区をなし，1964年に指定された新産業都市計画による新仙台港も建設され，製造品出荷額では7367億円（2003）を上げ，東北一の工業都市でもある。平野部は水田が多く，野菜栽培も盛ん。青葉城跡，陸奥(むつ)国分寺跡（史跡），八木山，榴ヶ岡(つつじがおか)公園などがあり，七夕(たなばた)祭は東北三大祭の一つとして有名。東日本大震災で，市内において被害が発生。786.30km²。104万5986人（2010）。
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