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The tracks of Hatsukari, the first express train in the Tohoku region

When people living in the Tokyo metropolitan area use public transportation to visit the Tohoku region, they often use Shinkansen trains such as the Tohoku Shinkansen. But east...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2024.02.26

Former Wakayanagi Station building

Experience driving the trains that were actually running at the Kuriden Museum! [Miyagi Prefecture]

The Kuriden Museum (Kurihara Denen Railway Park) is a place where passenger cars and electric locomotives used by the former Kurihara Denen Railway are stored in Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture, and is a place where...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.16

Migratory birds in Izuuma

People lived in the fertile earth for a long time, and Kurihara was the territory of the Sendai domain during the Edo period...

The Kurihara area, which makes up Kurihara City, spreads out at the southeastern foot of Mt. Kurikoma, and the Ichihasamagawa River, which originates from Mt. Kurikoma, and the Nisakogawa River,...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.01.02

Zodiac (3)

Main shrine to protect the 12 zodiac signs of Sendai | Main shrine to protect the zodiac signs of Tohoku: Miyagi Edition

Do you know what a “sacred place” is? It is a pilgrimage route that visits sacred sites and temples all over Japan in order, and is famous throughout the country.

AoiwaAoiwa2023.12.31

Atago Shrine temple name plaque

The main deity of the year of the Dragon and Snake enshrined in the god of fire! Atago Shrine on Mt. Atago (Sendai City)...

Atago Shrine, located in the southern part of the center of Sendai city and enshrined at the top of Mt. Atago, is famous as a night view spot as it offers a panoramic view of Sendai city across the Hirose River...

AoiwaAoiwa2023.12.30

Daimanji Kokuzodo

Is the Thousand-Body Buddha of Daimanji Temple in Mukaiyama, the root of the place name in Sendai? [Miyagi Prefecture]

Mt. Atago is located near Atagobashi Station on the Sendai Municipal Subway Namboku Line, on the way from central Sendai toward Nagamachi. It is famous for the Atago Shrine here...

AoiwaAoiwa2023.12.29

[Series 3: The role of the first nine years and the role of the second three years] Abe's army, which boasts unparalleled strength, is pushed into a corner...

After the Akutogawa Incident in February 1056, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi and Abe Yoritoki were at war again...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.12.15

[Series ②: The role of the previous nine years and the role of the second three years] The role of the previous nine years goes from truce to battle again, and it is a struggle...

Yoriyoshi Abe, the chieftain of Okuroku-gun (Iwate Prefecture), raised an army to subjugate Mutsu no Kami, Fujiwara no Nobo...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.12.08

[Series 1: The role of the previous nine years and the role of the later three years] Why did the Ou War occur at the end of the Heian period...

Also known as the ``Twelve Years' Battle of Oshu,'' this battle was fought in Mutsu and Dewa, present-day Iwate and Akita prefectures, at the end of the Heian period.

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.11.28

Due to a strange fate, the people from the Sendai domain were the first to travel around the world in Japan [Miya...

Did you know that the first person in Japan to circumnavigate the world was a member of the Sendai clan? In this article, due to a strange fate, I will travel around the world...

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