Sendai Miyagi was an ideal location, being in the centre of Masamune's newly defined territories, upon the major road from Edo, and near the sea.
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Sendai Miyagi was an ideal location, being in the centre of Masamune's newly defined territories, upon the major road from Edo, and near the sea.
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Sendai Miyagi was incorporated as a city on 1 April 1889, with the post-Meiji restoration creation of the modern municipalities system following the abolition of the han system.
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Sendai Miyagi was considered to be one of Japan's greenest cities, mostly because of its great numbers of trees and plants.
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Sendai Miyagi became known as The City of Trees before the Meiji Restoration, after the feudal Sendai Miyagi Domain encouraged residents to plant trees in their gardens.
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Sendai has been subject to several major earthquakes in recent history, including the 1978 Miyagi earthquake, which was a catalyst for the development of Japan's current earthquake resistance standards, and the 2005 Miyagi earthquake.
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Sendai Miyagi's port was heavily damaged and temporarily closed, reopening on 16 April 2011.
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Eastern Sendai Miyagi is a plains area, the center of the city is hilly, and western areas are mountainous.
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Sendai Miyagi has five wards, which were created when it became a designated city in 1989.
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Sendai Miyagi has a humid subtropical climate, which features warm and wet summers, and cool and dry winters.
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However, Sendai Miyagi is a designated city, so it has the same jurisdiction as prefectures in some areas.
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Sendai Miyagi is the center of the Tohoku region's economy, and is the base of the region's logistics and transportation.
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Sendai Miyagi is frequently called a branch-office economy, because very few major companies are headquartered in the city.
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Tohoku Electric Power, a major regional supplier of electric power, has its headquarters in Sendai Miyagi and operates the Shin-Sendai Miyagi Thermal Power Station located within the city.
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Sendai Miyagi is sometimes called an "Academic City" because the city has many universities relative to its population.
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Trees in downtown Sendai Miyagi are decorated with lights during the Sendai Miyagi Pageant of Starlights.
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Sendai Miyagi is the origin of several foods, including gyutan, hiyashi chuka, and robatayaki .
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Also, Sendai Miyagi station offers the most types of ekiben of any station in Japan.
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Many crafts from Sendai Miyagi were originally created under the influence of the Date family during the Edo period.
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Sendai Miyagi was known for its production of Tansu, clothing drawers made from wood with elaborate ironwork.
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Sendai Miyagi is home to historical sites related to the Date clan.
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The ruins of Sendai Miyagi Castle are close to downtown on Aobayama, which gives a panoramic view of the city.
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Western Sendai Miyagi is home to many sites of natural beauty, many of them found around Akiu Onsen and Sakunami, which are hot spring resorts.
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Sendai Miyagi Mediatheque is a multipurpose facility that houses the city library, galleries, and film studio facilities open for use by the general public.
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Sendai Miyagi contains a Peace Pagoda, built by Nipponzan-Myohoji-Daisanga in 1974.
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Shinto shrines in Sendai include Miyagiken Gokoku Shrine, Tsubonuma Hachiman Shrine, Futahashira Shrine, and Sendai Toshogu, a memorial shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Diocese of Sendai Miyagi was established in 1891, only two years after the promulgation of a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion in Japan, in 1889.
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In 2006, Sendai Miyagi hosted some games of the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
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Sendai Miyagi Girls' Pro Wrestling is a joshi wrestling company based in sendai.
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Sendai Miyagi has hosted international conferences about disaster management, as is recognized as a model city for disaster risk prevention.
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